The waiting game continues — again — for Muni’s executive director.A Washington D.C.-based group rumored to by eyeing Muni’s Nathaniel Ford to run its airport transportation system decided Wednesday to postpone a decision on whether to hire a new executive director.
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The latest report on pension and health care funding for city workers paints a bleak picture.
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First Noe Valley, then the Castro and now Upper Fillmore. The long standing bans on new restaurants enacted decades ago are being overturned by city officials.
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Park officials will start taking suggestions again on how to spend a pot of money that was set aside to fix open space eyesores again.The Recreation and Park Department set aside $5 million of bond money for a community opportunity fund and the commission will hear about its status on Thursday. Then park staff will release new applications for the money at one of the mandated workshops on March 21.
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Twelve-thousand Muni passes are up for grabs for San Francisco youth.
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Three members of the Board of Supervisors are attending the American Public Transportation Association conference in Washington, D.C., and will also make their best pitches for funding for key transportation projects. Supervisors David Campos, Ross Mirkarimi and Malia Cohen are in attendance and are expected to miss Tuesday’s board meeting.
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The owners of the Fairmont Hotel are getting another shot at converting its 23-story tower of hotel rooms into luxury, high-rise condominiums because The City made a “mistake” in the planning process, Mayor Ed Lee said Monday. Lee was unable to comment on our story that already ran, but we caught up with him on Monday.
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A logging plan for the fabled forest grove of the Bohemian Club was rejected Thursday by a Sonoma County judge.The San Francisco-based male-only club, originally founded by newspapermen in the 1870s, boasts membership of every Republican president since Herbert Hoover, and its annual summer gatherings are reportedly attended by the country’s top power brokers.
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The City’s Campaign Finance Reform Ordinance has an interesting provision that has come under discussion for change: “No person may contribute cumulatively to all candidates more than $500 times the number of offices on the ballot.”So for this November mayor’s race, the cumulative limit is $1,500. So for example, one could donate $500 to three mayoral candidates.
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The job status of Muni executive director Nathaniel Ford — in question for the past month — will be decided Wednesday.Ford is the leading candidate for the chief position at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, an agency that manages rail operations at the city’s two main airports.
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