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Downtown S.F. spruces up for holiday shoppers

On the third day of an intensive effort to spruce up the busy commercial corridor, the place was looking - dare it be said - clean, well-maintained and downright festive with wreaths and poinsettias decorating nearby Hallidie Plaza, the sunken plaza ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Nov 2009

Cable car service halted on Powell, four injured

(11-21) 16:46 PST San Francisco -- Four people reporting injuries were taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after the cable car they were riding stopped suddenly in downtown San Francisco, a Muni spokesman said. Two passengers and the cable car's ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  21 Nov 2009

Everything on the table to solve S.F. deficit

"Everything has to be on the table," Newsom said after a closed-door meeting with city department heads and their budget chiefs at Herbst Theatre across the street from City Hall. The mayor said each department will be expected to come up with budget ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Police panel gets dog-case prosecutor

Board of Supervisors President David Chiu was looking to delay the vote Tuesday but couldn't get a board majority to back him. Chiu told the Insider that he simply wanted more time to mull Hammer's nomination because several strong candidates were ...

From RACHEL GORDON, HEATHER KNIGHT, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gavin Newsom,  Macy's,  Microsoft Corporation,  PricewaterhouseCoopers,  Emirates Airline

San Francisco facing $500 million deficit

Greg Wagner, Mayor Gavin Newsom's budget director, would not provide an exact amount during testimony Wednesday before the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee, saying the numbers were still being crunched. "We're looking at something ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gavin Newsom,  Ross Mirkarimi

S.F. supes try again to stave off job cuts

The cuts, affecting clerical workers and certified nursing assistants, would save $7.9 million for the final seven months of the current fiscal year and are scheduled to begin this week. An attempt made last week to save those jobs by dipping into the ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Daly,  Ross Mirkarimi,  Service Employees International Union,  Gavin Newsom

N-Judah project hits snag

Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Site Index (11-15) 19:32 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Completion of the first leg of a rail replacement project for San Francisco's busy N-Judah line was hit by a delay today, forcing riders to rely ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Barack Obama,  White House

Child's body found - close to where searchers looked for child of slaying victim

(11-15) 12:28 PST BERKELEY -- A child's body was found today near the Berkeley Marina, not far from where police officers had been searching for a missing 17-month-old boy whose mother was found killed in nearby Aquatic Park, authorities said. The ...

From RACHEL GORDON,HENRY K. LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Tower of films to recall Alcatraz takeover

Coit Tower will be turned into a huge outdoor movie screen to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the American Indian Movement's occupation of Alcatraz Island. Projectors will be used to cast digital images on the 210-foot concrete tower that sits ...

From RACHEL GORDON, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Mark,  Ford Motor Company

Certificate is no honor to plumbers union boss

"I ... suggest that you stick it where the sun doesn't shine," Mazzola wrote in the Nov. 11 letter addressed to Board of Supervisors President David Chiu. Chiu signed the certificate for the plumbers union boss a week earlier. In the letter, Mazzola ...

From RACHEL GORDON, HEATHER KNIGHT, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Daly,  Gavin Newsom,  Service Employees International Union,  Sophie Maxwell

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