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Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits

--So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea

San Francisco Makes Forbes's 'Most Overpriced Real Estate Markets' List

Are you as shocked as we are? No, really, we think everyone knows things are pricey out here, and Forbe's is utilizing some interesting methodology to glean "overpricey' from the "pricey," and turn

Teachers In E. Palo Alto School Dist. Going To Be Slightly Less Underpaid

Ahh, teaching. That difficult, underpaid profession. We're totally behind those who are bringing future generations up to speed with the world being better compensated. Unfortunately, the salary typically given to this profession is

GAHHH! Frontier Airlines Flying Right Outta Town

It's "all airlines, all the time" here on SFist. After the lukewarm-to-good news of JetBlue flying out of SFO, we're greeted with some bad news: Frontier Airlines is vacating the premises--no more "commuter

Update on the School Kids

The driver involved was 70 year-old Mauro Yan of Redwood City. Eyewitnesses say he either looked asleep or in a state of shock but Yan's wife said that he was having trouble with

Apples Now Slightly Less Sinful

Our friends to the south have come under some uncomfortable scrutiny lately for all the toxic junk they dump into landfills. Greenpeace in particular has been pretty critical of Apple's use of mercury

Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux

So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the

News Shocker: Muni Aware of its own Shortcomings

In case you were wondering how Muni was going to explain the near-meltdown two weeks ago, look no further than the agenda for the April 25th meeting of the Citizen's Advisory Committee. (It's

Breaking News-- People Don't Pay Full Fares on Cable Cars

This information was uncovered by the MTA's crack team of Muni riding Ninjas who rode the cable car forty-two times and took notes. The good news is that the Muni Ninjas didn’t'

There's a New Eleven in Town

That's right -- 311 is doing the work that 511 promised but never delivered. Five-eleven still can't provide you with NextMuni info for buses, and you can't submit complaints about shoddy service; but

The Warriors: Timing is Everything

Over the last 12 years, nobody has really accused the Warriors of having their act together. They've burned through a litany of coaches, a couple of really bad GMs, and more than one

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FunCheapSF Goes Beta With New Site

Good news! SFist fave FunCheapSF is emerging from its Yahoo groups format and has started a much slicker and more useful Web site. Check it out for FunCheap's usual excellent tips and listings

Your Commute: On Fire. Seriously

There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:

I Only Want 2 See U in the Purple Rain

Well, the good news for those of you who like rain is that we're about to get pummelled by a bunch of storms, starting possibly tonight. In fact, February is looking like it's

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Octavia Boulevard: Recent beneficial changes

You've read last week about the concerns raised over the intersection of Octavia and Market. Today, we thought it would be interesting to check things out after Friday's protest to see if driver

More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand

They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction

The Warriors: Signs of Life

You can exhale Warriors fans, there is hope. The universe works in mysterious ways, and yesterday, it worked for the Warriors. Just when the flagging team needed it, on a day when they

The Yale Choral Group Story At Yale

First the good news. In the grand tradition of show biz, the show went on and the choir group was able to continue on in their West Coast tour. That's why they were

TEPping Out With My Baby

In order to get the buses to run on time, MUNI tried out all sorts of whacky things like having supervisors monitor the buses, have people work overtime to make up for absent

Norman Yee On The Mend

Turns out Norman Yee is an avid salsa dancer, and was crossing Bryant and 4th that Tuesday with the light in his favor to get to a local club (maybe the Glas Kat?

The Warriors: A Night at the Races, but No Payout

The good news is the Warriors scored 135 points last night in Memphis against the Grizzlies. Bet you can't see where this one is going. Yup. The bad news is that they gave

Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review

In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in

The Warriors: Breaking News (And It's All Bad)

New year, same crap. Actually, it's still 2006, so maybe the Warriors are just clearing their pipes of the last dregs of bad karma before starting a new year and a new franchise

Don't Panic Yet

Actually, the scientists say that there's small earthquakes happening all the time and it's just that a few of these were more noticeable than others. The good news is it's not a harbinger

Did the Lawyer Leak?

Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched