January
The year started out with a giddy Board of Supervisors, whose members believed they had found the perfect temporary mayor. Yes, unassuming bureaucrat Edwin Lee seemed like the perfect replacement for that other guy who lives in Marin now. Unfortunately, they were too busy patting themselves on the back to realize they were readying the area to be stabbed when Mayor Mustache decided to stay in the job.
February
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A trade group of search directory publishers filed a motion Wednesday asking for a preliminary court injunction against San Francisco’s so-called Yellow Pages law until a federal lawsuit it filed against The City in June is resolved.
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San Francisco’s paperless movement continues with a proposal to allow voters to opt out of receiving the voter information pamphlets.
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Those days of seeing a stack of Yellow Pages near the entryway of an apartment building in San Francisco are near an end.
The Board of Supervisors approved -- in a second and final vote -- Tuesday legislation introduced by board president David Chiu that bans the delivery of Yellow Pages to anyone, unless they say they want them. It’s an opt-in program.
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San Francisco has become the first major city to ban the delivery of Yellow Pages directories except to those who say they want them.
The law is meant to cut down on waste and reduce the cost of recycling the books. It’s estimated that about 1.8 million Yellow Pages directories are distributed throughout The City every year.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will again consider legislation that would reduce the number of Yellow Pages phone books delivered in The City.The ordinance, proposed in February by board president David Chiu, would create a three-year pilot program in which distributors of the Yellow Pages would have to ask businesses and residents if they would like a copy of the phone books before leaving them on doorsteps.
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A controversial proposal to restrict distribution of the Yellow Pages is set to come before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
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Protesters dropped off a stack of 1,500 Yellow Pages in front of an AT&T building in San Francisco on Wednesday morning to highlight what organizers said is the wasteful distribution of the phone books by the company.
The demonstration by the group PhonebookFree SF, in which protesters piled up the books in a stack, comes as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors considers legislation that would restrict the distribution of the Yellow Pages.
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A proposal to restrict distribution of the Yellow Pages is turning out to being one of Board of Supervisors President David Chiu’s most controversial proposals. On Monday, the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee will hold a hearing on the legislation. The committee meets at 1 p.m., at City Hall in Room 260.
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About 200 people gathered outside San Francisco City Hall on Monday to protest a proposal being considered by the Board of Supervisors to restrict the distribution of Yellow Pages phone books.
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