SF News Imagine a World Where Muni has Money Fortunately, the report also had a list of the ways that Muni can turn its losses around. Here's a handful, with more after the jump. No need to convene a freakin' panel, Gavin
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Favorite Football Team Is? The consultant, Bill Rhoda, told the City Council that the stadium would generate $249 million for the county. Monorail! He then added that it'll bring in $12.3 million dollars annually in tax
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Spends Some Money Need a place to spend that tax return you have coming your way? Sore subject? We haven't done our taxes yet either, but we plan on spending our hard earned cash at some
SF News Putting the Treasure In Treasure Island Yesterday, the Board of Supes approved the new Treasure Island development plan by a 10-1 vote. The one holdout was the new guy, Ed Jew, and you gotta admire the dude for going
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Watches What's Up For the New Year Slowly and surely, our Governator is letting loose with his plans for the upcoming year, most of which came in an interview on "Meet Tim Russert." And let's just say Schwarzenegger is feeling
SF News The SFist Guide To The SF Propositions If you're looking for better-informed information than the cursory one-sentence summaries we're going to provide to you after the jump, check out the SF Dept. of Elections and the San Francisco League of
SF News The SFist Voters' Guide: 6/6/06 We don't care if your voter information guide isn't here yet -- we can't wait any longer! It's that time of the quarter again -- for SFist's shallow surface summaries of the important
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
Arts & Entertainment Election 2005: Interview with Jose Cisneros How would you work with the assessor to make sure that property owners are paying their fair share of taxes? The Treasurer’s office will continue to work closely with the Assessor to
SF News We're Number Two! Man, New York wins everything! According to a study by Runzheimer International and reported on today by CNN, San Francisco is the second-most expensive place to live in the US, second only to
SF News A STERN Rebuke, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA So ... hmm. Could it be, political games still plague MUNI? No, surely not! That the MTA's board is appointed, rather than just voted on, was supposed to finally put an end to political
misc Condoize It We thought we'd update you on the latest brouhaha being currently ha'ed about in the city which is the Fairmont's announcement a week ago that they were kind of sort of thinking that
misc SFist Raves: The California Franchise Tax Board It's a nightmare that probably ranks second to the IRS screwing up your federal taxes -- the California Franchise Tax Board doing the same to your state taxes. Are we shocked that a
SF News Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
SF News More More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know --Arnie kicked off the special election campaign with the traditional scaring of the old folks. The claim this time? If the three resolutions he's backing don't pass, Prop. 13 will have to be
SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
SF News Punctuation: The New Currency At the corner of Market and New Montgomery this afternoon, we spied a large sign reading, "#%*&! IF YOU HATE TAXES! UP WITH FREEDOM!" And we're a little confused. What exactly are those
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Chris Edmundson We do recommend that you (and the preggo Britney Spears) check out Gama-Go’s shirts (and other wares). Let’s just say that once Brit’s abs aren’t absolutely fantabulous, and are
SF News Richmond & Oakland Want Reparations Supporters behind the bill hope that the laws passed will pave the way for slavery reparations. It also continues with a trend of suing companies that are believed to have profited from slavery.
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Immovable Type There's no love for free blogging software as Mr. Sarah Low Daly responds to our previous suggestions about the Chronicle-created controversy over his Board of Supes blog, where, as you may recall, in
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
SF News Your Commute: Soon to Be Taxed According to Arnie, that whole taxing gas to make people drive fuel-efficient cars thing is working a little too well. With a huge budget deficit and money quickly running out on all the
SF News Ah, The Muniserable SFist was having trouble getting to sleep last night, and we figured that short of the narcotics available down the street, actually reading the MTA's recently approved Fiscal Year 2006 budget would probably
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
