Gov. Jerry Brown's new measure will ask voters to raise taxes on the wealthy over the next five years. His tax initiative, slated for the November 2012 ballot as soon as Friday, could help put a dent in our state's dwindling economy, "which the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office pegs at $12.8 billion." Or it could upset a lot of extraordinarily powerful people. Or both. more ›

Proving that the Occupy SF movement isn't limited to the average and benign San Francisco protester, Bay Area's religious leaders joined the movement today. With denominations as varied as Muslim and Buddhist to Jewish and Christian, an estimated 25 congregations marched today in solidarity with Occupy SF, decrying the disparity in wealth between the rich and the poor. more ›

Did we say we wanted to live in One Rincon Hill? No, no. What we meant was, we wanted to live in Atherton. See, Forbes released its latest list of zip codes where the wealthy hatch and call home. Some silly town in a silly state took top honors -- 07620, Alpine, New Jersey, median home price $4,139,041. But! California's Atherton, 94027, came in at number two, boasting a median home price as of $3,849,133. more ›

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The uber- and always-divine Leah Garchik reports on who the wealthiest person in San Francisco is: Larry Page, co-founder and of Google. (Of course, the award for sexiest-wealthiest person in San Francisco, hands down, goes to The Brin. Know Sergey, know beauty; no Sergey, no beauty.) Garchik mentions Page because there's a book coming out this week about the Google kingpin and 99 other fat cats in the U.S. Penned by Randall Jones, it's called The Richest Man In Town. While we plan on giving the book a once-over, we had hoped Page's section would open any top-shelf cans of worms the way Oh the Glory of It All did, which famously shattered the glitzy Aqua-Net veneer of Pacific Height's Dede "French is a faggy language" Wilsey. , it seems, looks more like a living-the-American-dream guide, not a vengeful tell-all. Alas. Anyway, Jones' "smug paean to extreme wealth" is available on Wednesday. more ›