The Planning Commission that oversees private development in The City continues to operate independently of all common sense. In a recent meeting on a project to build small affordable condos, they again postponed a decision — adding another six months to the process — seemingly based on personal grudges over a draft code complaint.Time is money, especially in San Francisco.
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On Saturday, I was at my credit union about 45 minutes before the 3 p.m. closing time. More than 30 people were in the lobby area filling out application forms to open new accounts. These people were told it would take nearly two hours to process all the applications of everyone waiting in line. They were also informed that everyone there would have their applications processed that day even after the doors closed.
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If we had a “Dim Bulb of the Year” award, we would give it to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. How better to honor someone who so ostentatiously proposes a policy with obvious unintended consequences, then gets angry when they predictably come to pass?
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Several hundred people picketed in front of bank branches throughout downtown San Francisco on Thursday afternoon, chanting slogans and hoisting signs that placed the blame for the country’s ongoing economic trouble on Wall Street tycoons.
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Supervisor Scott Wiener is not against banks. But he said a neighborhood with too many banks, closed at night and most of the weekend, can be just plain boring — and very un-San Francisco.Wiener sent a letter to The City’s Planning Commission on Thursday calling for bank branches to be included among other chain retail locations subject to special “conditional use” approval from the commission and scrutiny from residents.
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A Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood was robbed on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The robbery was reported about 2:45 p.m. Wednesday at the bank, located at 725 Irving St.
The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, entered the bank and approached a teller while simulating that he had a handgun, although no weapon was seen, according to police.
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WHAT: The interagency Federal Financial Institutions Council urged banks to demand more than one type of identification from online customers, due to recent high-profile computer attacks against corporations and government agencies.
WHO: Hackers disabled the Brazilian statistics agency’s website for five hours last week. Citigroup and the U.S. Senate were also targets of recent cyber attacks. A yet-unfulfilled threat was made against the Federal Reserve.
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“It's very sad to see that a big bank is taking over a little bank…It just makes me feel sick.” That’s how one disappointed customer reacted to the closure of the Sonoma, CA-based Sonoma Valley Bank last Friday.
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“I don’t know what to do anymore.”
In the 20 years I’ve known him, Jeff has never uttered words like that about the wholesale-distributor business he built from scratch over the past 25 years. He’s had ups and downs like every small business, but he’s always seemed to know instinctively what to do, either to sustain existing business, or, in good times, expand into new areas and new brands.
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