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Airbnb is still snubbing SF, even after a NY judge rules it illegal there

05.23.13 - 1:37 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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Now that a judge in New York has ruled that Airbnb is illegal there, a model that violates city tenant laws and state law, that should put pressure on the San Francisco-based company to finally stop snubbing cities and find a way to exist within local regulatory frameworks and finally start paying its taxes.   Read more »

Weiner Rises!

05.23.13 - 10:58 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Midnight Wednesday, Anthony Weiner--who resigned from Congress two years ago because of a "sexting" scandal--has announced he will run for mayor of New York City. He will enter a crowded field to replace Michael "Big Gulps Are Murder" Bloonberg.Read more »

Sanctioned for sound violations, club owner fires ethics charge back at Entertainment Commission

05.22.13 - 5:25 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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The San Francisco Entertainment Commission last night voted to restrict the hours, sound limits, and other operating conditions for Brick & Mortar Music Hall -- the Mission Street live music venue that has received a series of noise complaints from its neighbors on Woodward Street -- until it completes soundproofing work to deal with the problem.Read more »

Activists’ zine documents violent arrests at SF State

05.22.13 - 3:21 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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Emotions ran high at San Francisco State University on May 21, where a group of activists held a rally decrying police officers’ excessive use of force in an incident that occurred last Thursday, May 16. Five arrests were made that night outside a student dormitory. YouTube videos showing police officers tackling the arrestees to the ground, as onlookers cry out in dismay, have drawn thousands of hits.Read more »

For No God's Sake

05.22.13 - 2:28 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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The nightmarish aftermath of the Moore, Oklahoma EF-5 tornado is in rebuilding and rebounding mode. People are digging out of the mess. Survivors located. Businesses re-opening.Read more »

Week One

05.22.13 - 11:43 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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I took this gig a week ago---multiple posts a week, basically a news-based version of what I did for the SFBG in the 90's. It's already kicking my ass, as the old "PISSED" columns were once a week and based in music. This is way tougher and way more gratifying. Thanks.Read more »

PG&E can't survive solar energy

05.22.13 - 11:20 am | Tim Redmond |
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Years ago, in the middle of the boom in nuclear power plants, we used to say, only half in jest, the private utilities would never accept solar energy because you can't put a meter on the sun. Turns out that's pretty close to true.Read more »

Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill Of The Lord God Oil

05.21.13 - 3:37 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, I take a brutal boot-camp type class at the Hollywood YMCA here in LA. 45 minutes of sheer hell, but as these things are measured, surely worth it. I've been going for the last year and a half at the prodding and urging of my friend Stacy "Beano" Johnson, a lively and lovely woman and an ex-pat Okie from outside Tulsa. Yesterday, I walked in to find her strecthing and she seemed, as you would imagine, distraught. Read more »

Senate goes after tax-cheating Apple

05.21.13 - 1:58 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks its an outrage that the world's most valuable company, with vast revenues and huge cash surpluses, is looking for ways to avoid paying federal taxes. Read more »

Young, creative people who work hard

05.21.13 - 12:59 pm | Tim Redmond |
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I almost don't know what to say, except: Finally, someone admits it.

Rebecca Pederson, writing in The Bold Italic, explains why she actually likes the idea that San Francisco is becoming so expensive that thousands of longtime residents are being forced out; see, if it's more expensive to live here, then young, creative people will work harder:Read more »