Although San Francisco is vying against Los Angeles and Chicago to become the nation’s candidate for the 2016 Olympics, city officials have their minds on the rest of the world as they trumpet a new honor bestowed upon The City.While U.S. Olympic Committee officials have spent the last several months questioning officials from the three cities about their ability to logistically coordinate more than 10,000 athletes and several million spectators, they are likely considering each city’s desirability as a destination for international travelers as well.
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Supervisors’ vote to raise price takes effect Nov. 1Tourists and residents will have to fork over an additional 25 cents next month for just getting into a San Francisco cab — with fares already among the highest in the nation.Cindy Halfer, who was waiting for a Muni bus Tuesday, was not happy when she heard the news. Halfer, who uses a cab once in a while when "Muni is not the answer," said she will now have to think twice the next time she really needs a cab.
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A plan to open a shop that sells chemical-free wines in San Francisco’s South of Market district is facing some resistance from neighbors who say there are already too many liquor establishments in the area.Luc Ertoran, 29, a Parisian who has lived in San Francisco for five years, said he never imagined that anyone would oppose the "warm and cozy" wine store and tasting area that he and American business partner Dagan Ministero, 31, envisioned when they signed a lease for a space near Folsom and Seventh streets.
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Plan would set aside space for Muni, provide real-time arrival information for ridersCity residents got their first look Tuesday night at plans for a rapid bus service that could reduce travel time up and down Van Ness Avenue and could be in effect by 2010.
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DALY CITY — As heated and controversial as the Daly City Council race has been this year, the campaign for Measure G is very much the opposite.On Nov. 7, Daly City voters will decide on the measure, which would approve an already existing utility-users tax. The city had to put it on the ballot due to recent law changes requiring any general tax to be approved by voters, Daly City Manager Pat Martel said.So far, there appears to be no opposition to the measure, which, if approved, would maintain the status quo.
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Checks have prevented 90 students from attending school in the districtREDWOOD CITY — The Sequoia Union High School District has saved an estimated $470,000 since it began checking whether students live within district boundaries, according to a report that will go to the school board tonight.
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City has poured more than $200,000 into project BURLINGAME — The Mills Canyon repair project should be finished in a week, just in time for the pending rainy season, which could once again wreak havoc on the popular hiking area.
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MILLBRAE — The city expects that upgraded rooms in a proposed Clarion Hotel project will bring substantially more hotel taxes into city coffers.The dwindling condition of roughly 150 cabana rooms, along with the dwindling travel and hospitality market earlier this decade, prompted Clarion owners to raze these units and use the space as a long-term parking lot for travelers flying out of San Francisco International Airport.
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Burnham Strip will be preserved after residents protested development REDWOOD CITY — In a concession to coastside residents, many of whom are angry with the direction a new midcoast development plan has taken, supervisors on Tuesday agreed to prohibit further housing construction on a 14-acre parcel overlooking the ocean called the Burnham Strip in El Grenada.
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REDWOOD CITY — Chinese, Tongan and other non-English speakers in the county are putting off or skipping medical appointments, sometimes resulting in emergency room visits, due to language barriers, a new county report reveals.
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