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January 26, 2012
Is It Too Late to Start an Artisanal Food Business? Maybe.
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 summer. These days, we all seem to be collectively dreaming about starting a ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
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 summer. These days, we all seem to be collectively dreaming about starting a ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Oakland Dogpiles on Mayor Jean Quan
Mayor Jean Quan has had better days Now that she has somewhat placated Occupy Oakland protesters, Mayor Jean Quan is pissing off police and the business community. Like a mother with rivaling children, Quan is stuck trying to balance the demands of both police and protesters as the city braces fo ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
San Franciscans Are Too Negative
Debbie Downer. Born and raised in San Francisco How quickly we take for granted our City by the Bay. Nevermind the fact that we live within the beautiful backdrop of iconic places like the Golden Gate Bridge. Forget that we won the World Series last year or that we enjoy sex more regularly than m ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Amazon Tax Bill Is Gaining Favor Among S.F. Businesses
Read the full story on your KindleBusiness leaders in San Francisco are supporting the same legislation that's made economic behemoths such as Amazon.com threaten to leave California. AB155, also known as the Amazon tax bill, passed the Assembly this week and now awaits the state Senate's vote. ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Congressman Pete Stark Aims to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Big Bucks
You've got a friend in high placesAs if raids from gun-toting Drug Enforcement Agency agents weren't enough to make stoners paranoid, California's medical marijuana clubs can also be shut down real fast by the IRS. That's because the Internal Revenue Service has declared that California's legal m ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Key Economic Indicators Hint At Local Recovery
Matt Smith illustrationWell, not an economic boom exactly...San Francisco hasn't yet fully emerged from the mortgage-meltdown: Lingering effects include depressed Bay Area employment, which declined 1.4 percent last year, and lackluster housing prices, which remain flat.However, some other indica ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
S.F's Chinese New Year Parade Has Become a Hotbed of Controversy
Matt Smith illustrationWell, not an economic boom exactly...San Francisco hasn't yet fully emerged from the mortgage-meltdown: Lingering effects include depressed Bay Area employment, which declined 1.4 percent last year, and lackluster housing prices, which remain flat.However, some other indica ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
Guess Which SF 'Hood Loves Sit-Lie the Most?
US Geological SurveyIt usually looks betterCivil Sidewalks, Sit-Lie ordinance -- call it what you will, the ballot initiative to make sitting down on public sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. illegal isn't some fringe idea from what passes for SF's hard right. There's a popular -- some say "gra ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
List: Zoned for porn use
US Geological SurveyIt usually looks betterCivil Sidewalks, Sit-Lie ordinance -- call it what you will, the ballot initiative to make sitting down on public sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. illegal isn't some fringe idea from what passes for SF's hard right. There's a popular -- some say "gra ... More >>
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October 30, 2009
Drewes Brothers Meats v. Whole Foods: Feh on Both Your Houses?
oomni/FlickrHell-oo, anybody there?According to recent blog hoopla, Drewes Brothers Meats in Noe Valley is floundering in the wake of a Whole Foods invasion, and the resulting commotion has swollen into a temporary Ground Zero for concerns about the health of local businesses. As reported at ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
'Road Rules'-Like Group of Christian College Students Rolling Through San Francisco
Tom Green would have been available for this 'road trip' as well...Hey, here's an idea for some great television. Take 10 young people -- and make 'em all good-looking and no older than 22. Give some of 'em an ethnic and big-city background, but make sure to get some country mixed in with that rock ... More >>
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March 6, 2009
Mom-and-Pop Record Stores Not Exactly Cheering Virgin's Demise
The Virgin megastore died? Drag. The plaintive statements from city officials when the Virgin megastore announced it was closing shop seemed slightly un-San Francisco. Isn't this the city that hates big box stores with such a vengeance that they're blocked from taking root by anti-corporate ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
Mayor, Board President's Payroll Tax Plans are Different; Supes Notified Via Press Release
It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2008
State of the Cart Sidebar: El Huarache Loco
It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board ... More >>
News
September 6, 2006
Falling Tower
It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board ... More >>
News
September 21, 2005
What's Really Wrong With the Lower Fillmore?
Could it be the activists who claim they're trying to rebuild it?
News
March 2, 2005
Anus, Already
Uniquely positioned to exert positive influence on public debate, San Francisco's business lobbies instead choose to act like, well, assholes
News
November 12, 2003
The Looking-Glass Campaign
For Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzalez, ideological labels may be misleading, or even drawkcab
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February 5, 2003
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March 27, 1996
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