Small Business

ADA Lawsuit Factory in SF

Where Your $6 Billion Goes: The SF City Committee Shuffle

Jury Selection Under Way in Weekly Trial

San Francisco just released another report about San Francisco: Here's why they all suck

SF Government InAction: SF offers Big Bucks for SOMA, but always destroys what it loves!

Ka-Ching! And So Making Moolah Outta Gay Marriage Begins!

Valencia Street: The New Yellow Brick Road?

Paper Trails

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

What would Clint Reilly do if MediaNews tries to buy the Chronicle?

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

The Class of 2000

Eight years after being swept into office, a once-disorganized band of neighborhood leftists tries to create a citywide political machine.

Appealing to a Higher Authority

We respond to the latest ruling in the Guardian's lawsuit against us.

Frankovich Invades North Beach

But State Bar may stop attorney using, and possibly abusing, the ADA.

SF Weekly Letters

But State Bar may stop attorney using, and possibly abusing, the ADA.

Wheelchairs of Fortune

Attorney Tom Frankovich and his disabled clients sue small businesses to make them accessible - and make millions

The Fix Isn't In

Gavin Newsom has a plan to clean up the Bayview in five years. If only his programs were working as well as his PR machine.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Fear Factor

SARS has barely touched S.F. Yet tourists and others are staying away from Chinatown in droves.

Paying the Price

Major oil companies are gobbling up independent gas station operators, all in the name of greed

Down on Brown

Many blacks in Bayview/Hunters Point say they feel ignored by the mayor. In this election, they are returning the favor.

Universal Health Scare

Proposition J promises medical insurance for everyone in San Francisco. It's a laudable goal -- but do you really want Willie Brown doctoring your insurance premiums?

The Grid

Proposition J promises medical insurance for everyone in San Francisco. It's a laudable goal -- but do you really want Willie Brown doctoring your insurance premiums?

Letters

Proposition J promises medical insurance for everyone in San Francisco. It's a laudable goal -- but do you really want Willie Brown doctoring your insurance premiums?

In Sickness and in Health?

The promise of equal benefits for domestic partners is uncertain under S.F.'s new law

State Ballot Measures

The promise of equal benefits for domestic partners is uncertain under S.F.'s new law

The Grid

The promise of equal benefits for domestic partners is uncertain under S.F.'s new law

Merchant of Redemption

During his first three decades on Sixth Street, Tom McKnight Sr. used his various businesses to educate his children and counsel them in the doctrine of social obligation. Now his son must balance the demands of activism against the realities of commerce

SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom Will Be Told That David Chiu Is Rejecting MUNI's Budget Sometime In Early 2011

From a numerical standpoint, the Supes are finally getting their act together. At the beginning of the year, we were lucky if they made it through four meetings a week. Now they're hitting six or seven almost every time. That's the good news. The bad news is that the number of meetings appare ... More >>

Did City's Goof Cause Tax Collectors to Overcharge San Francisco's Small Businesses?

A ballot proposition that raised the amount of money San Francisco businesses need to pay their employees before being subjected to city payroll taxes seems to have gone unnoticed by the very people charged with enforcing it -- San Francisco's tax collectors. Last year, voters overwhelmingly approve ... More >>

Google Maps 'Favorite Places' Unveiled: Local Businesses Welcomed to the Interwebz

Mayor Gavin Newsom: bears striking resemblance to Will ArnettGoogle Maps unveiled their latest project called "Favorite Places" this afternoon at a press conference/meet and greet/smorgasbord inside City Hall. Local business owners, members of the press, and Mayor Gavin Newsom mingled, networked, an ... More >>

Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

Mayor Gavin Newsom: bears striking resemblance to Will ArnettGoogle Maps unveiled their latest project called "Favorite Places" this afternoon at a press conference/meet and greet/smorgasbord inside City Hall. Local business owners, members of the press, and Mayor Gavin Newsom mingled, networked, an ... More >>

Did Entertainment Commissioner Break City Ethics Law? Former Board of Supervisors President Says Yes.

Look who's talking​Two members of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission are drawing fire from several sources -- including local Democratic Party Chairman and former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin -- for what critics say were ethically dubious efforts to influence the city's Smal ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. Realness on a stick: Bay Area Bites' Thy Tran serves up the most thoughtful take on street food we've seen in a long time. Sure, we can all feel glow-y for August's street food fests, but what would it take to build the teeming, vibrant vendor culture ... More >>

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom, the Morning After, Will Still Have to Celebrate Small Business Month

  The news at the end of October was devastating for San Francisco: Trauma and Gavin Newsom for Governor were canceled in the same week. It's heartbreaking: Both were expensive pilots with such promising premises. In Trauma, a group of troubled but devil-may-care emergency medical technic ... More >>

SEIU's Claim Mayor 'Broke Promise' to Union Is a Tough Sell

​Yesterday's contentious SEIU protest at City Hall was both similar to and different from the protests that proceeded it. It was different in that it featured a 14-foot-tall puppet and some sort of altercation with a Native American group. And it was the same in that it probably won't save the job ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Everybody's Doing the Eric Mar Dance of Futility

  Monday, Jan. 11   10:30 a.m. - City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee   There is so little going on at this meeting that physicists have yet to quantify an amount this small.  1 p.m. - Land use & Economic Development Committee When local small business ... More >>

Let's Be Frank Disappointed It Won't Be Selling in Dolores Park

Justin Y./YelpJustin Herman Plaza​Rec and Park informed street-food applicants about which city parks they'd be offered contracts for yesterday. Let's Be Frank's Larry Bain expressed disappointment that the sustainable hot dog company wouldn't be awarded the contract for Dolores Park, but inst ... More >>

How Did Humphry Slocombe Amass an Award-Worthy 300K Twitter Followers?

missionlocal.orgHumphry Slocombe's Jake Godby (left) with chief tweeter Sean Vahey.​Two San Francisco-based businesses, ice creamery Humphry Slocombe and messenger bag stalwart Timbuk2, are vying for the honor of "Best Small Business to Follow on Twitter" at the first Bizzies Awards, hosted by ... More >>

S.F. Business Group Spurns Pelosi's Health Care Plea

Not winning the vote of San Francisco's business community...​Despite 30 minutes of face time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to convince a delegation of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce business leaders to endorse the most important piece of legislation a San Francisco politician has shepherd ... More >>

SF Weekly Appeal Finally Heard, But No Decision Yet from the Court

​ Twenty-seven months after a San Francisco jury levied a gargantuan $16 million judgment against SF Weekly and its parent company for allegedly trying to "injure" the Bay Guardian, the California Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in the case Friday morning. The brief session before a thr ... More >>

IF YOU GO

​ Twenty-seven months after a San Francisco jury levied a gargantuan $16 million judgment against SF Weekly and its parent company for allegedly trying to "injure" the Bay Guardian, the California Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in the case Friday morning. The brief session before a thr ... More >>

Chile Lindo Owner Paula Tejeda on the Warpath (VIDEO)

A dark day for empanadas​ Thursday's rally at the 24th Street BART station regarding the bevy of disability access lawsuits recently filed against Mission mom-and-pop restaurants didn't start a revolution. There were no signs or chants. Only three reporters and a handful of onlookers even showed u ... More >>

SFPD wants to recruit suburbocops from outside the city

A dark day for empanadas​ Thursday's rally at the 24th Street BART station regarding the bevy of disability access lawsuits recently filed against Mission mom-and-pop restaurants didn't start a revolution. There were no signs or chants. Only three reporters and a handful of onlookers even showed u ... More >>

Gov. Jerry Brown Stops in SF to Get Buy-In on Budget

What kind of salesman is he?​Update: The Bay Area Council voted to endorse Brown's budget proposal. Members called the talk with Brown "tough but refreshing."As a governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger had the star power that could set off a media frenzy every time he blew his nose. And while Gov.Jerry B ... More >>

Mirkarimi Pushes For More Live Performances in Small Restaurants

epSos.de​It's summertime, and on a Saturday evening you take your date out to your favorite little Italian restaurant. The breeze is cool, the food is exquisite, and your date is gorgeous. You're thinking, the only thing left that would make this night perfect would be a little jazz music. A ... More >>

Copyright Fight the Subject of Juvenile Flamewars

​To the uninitiated, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce might sound like a larger version of local chambers of commerce: something like the Elks or the Rotary Club, where dull businesspeople get together for dull meetings to eat rubber chicken and to "network." But the U.S. Chamber is the largest lobb ... More >>

Plastic Bag Ban: How Much Outreach Do You Really Need?

Ross Mirkarimi's bag legislation may have just gotten the sack​Mom. Apple pie. Patriotism. No politician who doesn't wish to receive a crash course in the joys of seeking employment with the private sector will dare find him or herself on the wrong side of these notions -- and the political goals ... More >>

Supervisor David Chiu Scores High with SF Chamber of Commerce

David Chiu's business-friendly advice: Let the Wookiee win​The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has released its annual scorecard, ranking how it feels members of the Board of Supervisors have been doing when it comes to bolstering our economy. And, like every year, the results are as predictable ... More >>

Is It Too Late to Start an Artisanal Food Business? Maybe.

Joseph SchellHappy Girl already makes wonderful pickles. Do you need to, too?​ In the 1980s, food types all talked up the simple little French restaurant they wanted to open -- nothing pretentious, mind you, but serving a proper blanquette de veau, just like the one they'd eaten in Bordeaux last ... More >>