SF News SF Workers Make 53 Percent More Than National Average Bust out the $4 toast, French Laundry reservations, and third-wave Champagne, all you “average” San Francisco workers out there! You make substantially more money per hour than your also-average counterparts elsewhere in the
SF News Despite Moral Bankruptcy, Martin Shkreli Bailed Himself Out With $45 Million E-Trade Account "THEY SEE ME ROLLING..." pic.twitter.com/D1mDBEeZMq— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) September 16, 2015 Though many have astutely observed that finance loser turned pharmaceutical wantrapreneur Martin Shkreli is "worthless," the 32-year-old arrested on
SF News NY Finance Bro Writes Observations About SF Scene, And They're Predictably Terrible A wealth management dude from New York just spent four days in San Francisco and decided to opine about what he saw and heard here. No one seems to have told him where
SF News Hear The Secrets Of The Real-Life 'Wolf of Wall Street,' For Only $75 (And Up) Jordan Belfort needs your help. See, he mis-spent his 20s and 30s perpetrating a now-famous fraud while amassing millions of dollars for himself on a certain New York City roadway. But luckily, by
Arts & Entertainment Poll: Best Credit Union in Town? In light of the historic protests currently taking place over on Wall Street, along with the trend of banks -- most notably Bank of America -- beginning to charge monthly fees for debit
SF News Wells Fargo Ordered to Pay $200M for Overdraft-Fee Nonsense According to the Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo has been ordered "pay more than $200 million to compensate customers who the judge said were improperly charged millions in overdraft fees." Today, Judge William
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Get International Alas, today is "major pink slip handout" day over at Yahoo, where "police and security teams have been scheduled to provide order in case anyone goes postal." But things are getting ugly overseas
SF News Carole and the Case of the $397,000 After paying up last year for disclosure violations, Senator Carole Migden is once again under investigation for not disclosing or itemizing credit card charges that total $397,000. According to the LA Times,
SF News All I Need are Some Tasty Waves, a Cool Buzz, Matt Gonzalez, and I'm Fine According to the story, Matt really wasn't sure if his bud Sean was making a joke or not (although we've yet to hear Sean Penn make a joke and can't be sure he
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy How I would fix MUNI. (Disclaimer: I am not an administrative professional but this is my way): Major realignment of the Divisions / Departments I would simplify the tree a bit, making the chain
SF News How's Carole Migden's Driving?: Charges Filed We can't really get ourselves too worked up about the billboards or campaign finance allegations that Mark Leno's tossing around about his rival for the State Senate seat, Carole Migden (sorry) -- but
SF News Culpepper- He's the Man, the Man with the Midas Touch he Raiders have a new QB, at least for the moment. That QB is Daunte Culpepper, Randy Moss' ex-ball chucker. He had a little tryout for the team yesterday and it went so
SF News Tsk, Tsk: A Little Background On Ethics While we've been digesting the dueling banjos style competition for a Board of Supes Code of Conduct, we were left pickin' our skulls as to why the Supes don't already have a code
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: SF"Chron"-Gate! Most people can't comprehend our near OCD level obsession with Chris Daly, Ed Jew, Gavin, and the Board of Supes. So, we're cool when people ask us questions like, "How do you know
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal" based on their concept.
SF News No More Drama (The SF Budget) Sorry we're late on this one! Not much to report, just that Board of Supes president Aaron Peskin has named himself the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee after firing Chris Daly
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: M&R Man, we're bummed the Chron still hasn't put back up the pictures of the Canton Flower Shop and their stymied attempts to inspect the legendary shower in the back -- but we do
SF News Day Around The Bay --Spot (at least) four problems with this picture! [zippy_monster on Flickr, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Fight at the Metreon! [Chron Culture Blog] --Pat Murphy claims to feel bad about his nemesis
SF News Day Around The Bay --Chris Daly gets booted as the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee. --Are they going to make Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval the next assessor? --A baby gets a margarita! --Someone defaced an Arabic
SF News It's Nice Working With Friends, Ain't It? (Accountemps, a Robert Half Int'l company, is a temp firm specializing in finance/bookkeeping/accounting needs. You may know the company from its extremely annoying radio spots where the boss always pines for
SF News Day Around The Bay --...and as promised, here's the back of the Ed Jew calendar, from reader Jake. Thanks, Jake! Irony alert! Can you guys see the "please contact me if you have problems or if
SF News Day Around The Bay --No parking for your bulldozer? Just leave it on the beach. (Thanks to reader Joe, who sent this absolutely gorgeous postcard picture to us. GREETINGS FROM THE BULLDOZER!) --Another reader, Erin, was accosted
SF News Guvernator's May Budget Revision The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.
SF News If I Can Make It There, It'll Make it Anywhere Guess it's not that much of a nutty idea. Now because it's New York, it's instantly taken more seriously because it's New York and everything is taken more seriously there (damn East Coast
SF News Calif. Legislature Wants To Teach <i>Us</i> How To Save Bipartisan legislators introduced a bill in the California Senate Wednesday that would grant every child born within the state a $500 savings account, earmarked for higher education, a home downpayment, or retirement. The
