Following several recent meetings between team leaders and city officials, the Warriors may be hoping to come back to San Francisco to play in a new waterfront arena.
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The San Francisco June ballot promises to be drab, featuring elections for the Democratic and Republican parties’ central committees and two ballot measures — one involving whether to have competitive bids for The City’s trash disposal services. As one Democratic County Central Committee candidate told me, “It’s humbling to run for an office that no one has heard of and is down-ballot from the garbage proposal.”
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Legislation enshrining limits to the Police Department’s engagement with federal anti-terrorism activities was hailed Wednesday by city officials, police and members of the Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities as a victory against racial profiling and for transparency.
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Mayor Ed Lee’s effort to remove Ross Mirkarimi as sheriff “is an unprecedented political prosecution that has nothing to do with the will of the people,” Mirkarimi’s attorneys said in their opening legal filing to the Ethics Commission on Tuesday.
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As tech startup Airbnb announced plans to add hundreds of local jobs at its new San Francisco headquarters, Mayor Ed Lee said the issue of whether the company must pay The City’s 14 percent hotel tax remains a topic for discussion.
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee may be poised to take on a larger political role on the national stage, as the Democratic National Committee’s top official visited him Wednesday asking for help getting out the Asian-American vote for President Barack Obama.
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While Mayor Ed Lee has asked city commissioners running for a seat on the Board of Supervisors to step down, one board hopeful on the Port Commission plans to keep his seat long enough to vote on the controversial development known as 8 Washington.
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As the tech company Dropbox opened a massive new China Basin headquarters Wednesday, Mayor Ed Lee touted the news as further proof of The City’s growing image as a tech capital.Dropbox — which offers cloud data storage services for users of personal computers — joins firms such as Twitter, Zynga and Salesforce as part of the mayor’s effort to portray San Francisco as the “innovation capital of the world.”
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Gifts showered down on Mayor Ed Lee last year, ranging from a $140 bottle of Dom Perignon to two tickets to the Davies Symphony Hall for $320.
On Jan. 14, just days after his inauguration, Lee received his first gift of the year, a $50 box of Godiva Milk Chocolate Expressions from retired Diamond Heights resident Jo-Ann Butler.
What followed were 16 more gifts. All told, the value of the gifts totaled $1,520.
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A majority of city voters — 72 percent — view the San Francisco Police Department favorably, according to a February survey.
Of the 500 voters surveyed, only 18 percent had an unfavorable view of the department, according to the annual CityBeat Poll.
Last year, 73 percent of voters viewed the department favorably, and 16 percent unfavorably.
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce hired David Binder Research to conduct the poll.
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