Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was overheard Wednesday at a Transbay Transit Center construction milestone celebration boasting that he helped raise $70,000 for Ed Lee’s mayoral campaign. Brown held a fundraiser for the current mayor on Tuesday night at North Beach Restaurant.“We had projected 50 grand, but …” Brown bragged to a young woman as a San Francisco Examiner reporter stood nearby.When asked about the fundraiser by The Examiner, Brown declined to comment.
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With San Francisco mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera expected to come out against the Central Subway this week, and former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin already on record opposing it, Chinatown business leaders held a heated press conference at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association this afternoon to express their displeasure.
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Squabbling between prominent power brokers has blown up into a fight highlighting a political rift in San Francisco’s Asian community that could have implications in the mayoral race.
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Candidate for San Francisco sheriff Chris Cunnie picked up a couple of high-profile endorsements in Chinatown this morning from former police Chief Heather Fong and retired Judge Harry Low.In a news conference at the historic Portsmouth Square, Cunnie — a former cop as well as undersheriff — emphasized his connection to the Chinatown area, where he said his father lived for many years and Cunnie worked at the Central police station.
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The start of the school year is just few weeks out — summer’s days are numbered — and back-to-school preparation is already under way.Backpacks, notebooks and pencil cases may be at the top of some parents’ school supply lists, but for some San Francisco families, new shoes are the items most needed to start the school year off on the right foot.
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After looking at Muni’s Central Subway project, the civil grand jury reached the same conclusion that most nonpartisan observers have — it’s a useless money pit just waiting to suck down whatever is left of the public transit system’s dwindling revenues.
But no one listens to grand juries, a fact that once got me placed on a press panel of national grand jurors, who seemed somewhat wounded that all their hard work could be so casually ignored.
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City College of San Francisco officials say they can’t afford the contract for design of a planned Chinatown and North Beach campus that has ballooned in cost after nearly a decade of planning and construction.
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San Francisco will be selling its biggest industry — tourism — to an international audience of tour operators and travel agents at a trade show this week that local officials hope will generate a flood of cash from overseas for The City’s struggling economy.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will give an update on the $1.6 billion Central Subway project this week.Construction has already begun on the subway, which will expand Muni’s Metro service from the SoMa district to Chinatown and is scheduled to open for service in 2019.
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At last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor John Avalos (who is running for mayor) announced he is requesting that the city attorney draft a housing bond measure that would fund “affordable housing development,” “transit-oriented development” and “upgrades to single-family homes including seismic safety retrofits, green energy production and energy efficiency measures, and bringing buildings up to code.” In addition, the bond would provide down-payment assistance for first-time ho
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