My fascination with watching politics is a constant source of amusement for my family and friends. They don’t see what is so interesting about televised sausage-making, but I think there are gems in every Board of Supervisors agenda. For example, here are some items that are going before the board today.
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Brisbane is floating a business license tax on November’s ballot that will not affect a single company currently in the city, but it could have a major impact on future revenue for the general fund.
The measure is centered on Recology, the company embroiled in a controversial fight to maintain a monopoly over San Francisco’s trash collection.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson visited a recycling facility in San Francisco this afternoon as part of a tour to promote President Obama's jobs plan and federal efforts to promote sustainability.
Jackson visited Recology's Recycle Central station at Pier 96 following Obama's speech last week on his plan to create more jobs.
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Mayor Ed Lee on Tuesday said he hasn’t been approached by federal officials as rumors swirl of an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office into a campaign to get Lee to run.
Among the questions posed in recent months about the Run, Ed, Run campaign by local reporters and staff at the Ethics Commission are these:
Did Lee ever cooperate with the backers of the “independent” campaign?
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After years of perpetual and often-childish bickering at City Hall, interim Mayor Ed Lee has presided over an era of calm that some call progress. Voters knew little about this polite and well-regarded bureaucrat when he was selected to baby-sit the final year of Gavin Newsom’s term. At the time, all most people cared about was that San Francisco’s first Chinese-American mayor wasn’t a politician and had no re-election ambitions. Peace had come to The City.
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San Francisco officials awarded a $112 million garbage contract to one company by using a process that stunk, according to a lawsuit filed this week by a competing trash disposal company.
The lawsuit comes as a Board of Supervisors committee is set to approve a 10-year contract with Recology today to dispose of waste in the company’s landfill in Yuba County.
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Dueling pension measures are in store for voters this November after Public Defender Jeff Adachi dropped off more than 70,000 signatures Monday to place his reform effort on the ballot.
Adachi’s submission comes as Mayor Ed Lee’s pension measure — which was drafted with The City’s labor leaders — will undergo a hearing today by the Board of Supervisors.
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Trash talk is intensifying over a proposed November ballot measure that would open up Recology’s San Francisco garbage-hauling monopoly to competition for the first time in decades.
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A battle over The City’s lucrative trash hauling business will add to the excitement of the November election, which already features a crowded mayor’s race and dueling pension measures.
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An effort is under way to open up San Francisco’s garbage hauling business to competition for the first time in 80 years.
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