Most viewers of the first ever question time between the mayor and the Board of Supervisors were seemingly bored out of their minds. Most agreed the format takes all the fun out of it, advance questions and prepared answers.
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It seems anything dealing with the Twitter tax break must result in controversy for Supervisor Jane Kim. Twitter and other companies who locate to the Mid-Market area and take the tax break must sign a community benefits agreement, in other words commit to spending money on area nonprofits.
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Mike Talley said his family back home in Tulsa, Okla., disowned him, and it wasn’t just because he was gay. He was also into leather. “Leather was over the line,” he recalled. “Thirty days later, I was living in San Francisco, and I had found home.”
And like many gay men who sought refuge in The City in the ’80s, he wound up at the Eagle Tavern, a quintessential leather bar that shut its doors — at least for now — on Saturday night, after 30 years as an institution.
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With more than 30 people running for mayor, there have to be a few that you’d like to have the chance to mack on. You could have just the opportunity you’ve been looking for next week, when the New Leaders Council hosts it’s Second Annual “Smokin’ Hot Progressives” event, during which “dates” with several mayoral candidates and other powerful politicos will be auctioned off.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal to exempt payroll taxes for Twitter and other businesses who move to certain locations in The City's Mid-Market or Tenderloin neighborhoods.The proposal would exempt payroll taxes for new employees for six years for companies that move to the area on or near Market Street between Fifth Street and Van Ness Avenue.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee usually holds hearing on the murder rate and other crime stats.
But this Thursday things will be a little different. The committee is holding a hearing requested by Supervisor Jane Kim on pedestrian safety in the SoMa neighborhood.
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San Francisco City Supervisor Jane Kim is participating today in Walk to Work Day, a Walk San Francisco spokeswoman said.Walk to Work Day is always the first Friday in April, spokeswoman Elizabeth Stampe said.Kim and other walkers will meet at Civic Center Plaza at 9 a.m. in honor of the occasion, Stampe said.
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San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is definitely raw, but that is only a term of art. The name’s actual historical origin remains shrouded in mystery. Most residents agree it is somewhat meaty, but they have a hard time explaining exactly why.
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At a hearing Monday dominated by complaints from residents of single-room occupancy hotels, Supervisor Jane Kim took the Department of Public Health to task over inspections designed to abate San Francisco’s problem with human-blood-sucking bedbugs.
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It is not every day that politicians take up the topic of people-eating bugs. That is why a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing about bedbugs Monday is sure to catch some attention.
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