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It should be about more than Twitter

By: Dennis Herrera 04/04/11 11:16 PM
The prospect of losing Twitter, one of technology’s fastest-growing companies, has exposed a bigger problem — San Francisco’s broken business tax structure. If The City had a business tax structure that worked, we wouldn’t need special one-off deals to keep good companies from leaving. Read More

CitiApartments landlord gets deserved punishment

By: SF Examiner Editorial 04/03/11 10:44 PM
It took five years of legal tug-of-war, but San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera finally got the notorious Lembi family — The City’s most abusive large-scale landlord — to accept a court settlement forcing them to pay San Francisco millions and either clean up their act or leave town. Read More

Tenants of San Francisco's embattled CitiApartments face utility shutoffs

By: Katie Worth 04/03/11 10:36 PM
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Not long ago, the main complaints tenant counselors heard about CitiApartments were of harassment and intimidation.Now, the stories have changed: Today, tenants more often complain that they are being threatened with utility shutoffs, because neither the landlord nor the banks that own their properties have been paying the bills. Read More

CitiApartments owner must pay big or leave San Francisco business

By: Katie Worth 03/30/11 8:59 PM
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A family that just three years ago was San Francisco’s largest and most notorious owner of apartment buildings is now facing the choice of paying up to $10 million in fines or promising to cease property management in San Francisco forever. Read More

San Francisco City Attorney’s Office announces settlement with CitiApartments

By: Staff report 03/30/11 10:01 AM
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CitiApartments, one of the largest residential property managers in San Francisco, could face up to $10 million in penalties under a settlement a judge approved, according to the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.San Francisco sued the rental company and its individual affiliates in August 2006, alleging unlawful business practices and harassment of tenants, according to the office. Read More

San Francisco resists PG&E SmartMeters as it deploys its own devices

By: Kamala Kelkar 03/24/11 4:00 AM
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PG&E is encountering widespread resistance to its deployment of SmartMeters, but The City has quietly installed 29,000 “smart” water meters during the past year with little controversy.   Read More

Dennis Herrera secures preliminary injunction against immigration law practice

By: Bay City News 03/22/11 2:44 PM
Dennis Herrera (AP file photo)
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has secured a preliminary injunction against a firm accused of running an immigration law practice that he alleges defrauded thousands of clients.A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that Christopher Stender and his firm Immigration Practice Group must immediately stop aiding former attorney Martin Guajardo in the unauthorized practice of law, Herrera’s office announced Monday. Read More

Meet a growing cast of San Francisco mayoral candidates

By: Brent Begin 03/21/11 12:34 PM
Though the election is more than seven months away, candidates on an ever-growing list for San Francisco mayor are working feverishly to identify themselves with voters and donors. And Monday night is a great chance to meet a majority of them in one shot thanks to a forum put on by Chinese for Affirmative Action. Read More

Heart attacks? There’s an app for that

By: Brent Begin 03/17/11 12:46 PM
City officials’ hearts are all aflutter over a potentially life-saving iPhone app.City Attorney Dennis Herrera and San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White got together this week to promote the SF Fire App Initiative, which they hope will encourage a citywide effort to reduce heart attack deaths. Read More

Smartphone app will alert those trained in CPR about nearby emergencies

By: Bay City News 03/16/11 10:49 AM
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White on Wednesday are announcing a smartphone application that could be in place later this year that would send alerts to people trained in CPR so they could respond to nearby cardiac emergencies. Read More

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