Early June News Around the Bay
A new lawsuit seeks to impede the Port of Oakland’s ability to regulate dirty trucks
A lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports is impeding the Port of Oakland’s ability to regulate dirty trucks.
Supreme Court asked to ax S.F. health care rule
The Golden Gate Restaurant Association filed a petition v on Monday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to make the final decision on whether San Francisco’s mandate that employers pay for health care coverage is legal.
$52 Fee To Investigate Tenant Complaints Too Little, Too Late For Laid Off Workers
That the city of San Francisco is running dangerously low on cash is common knowledge. But is it as well-known that staffing cuts at revenue-generating city departments — like theDepartment of Building Inspection, which is tasked with handing out permits and punitive citations to permit violators — are making it even more difficult for the city to rake in green?
Public Rejects Newspapers’ Survivalist Rhetoric
Markos Moulitsas, whose Daily Kos helped shift the nation’s politics leftward, recently noted that newspaper circulation began its steady decline in 1993, well before the rise of the Internet, and that “what the newspaper industry is trying to save right now isn’t ‘journalism’, it’s ‘shareholder value’.”
Swine flu claims Alameda County man
Alameda County health officials on Tuesday confirmed the county’s first swine-flu-related death, that of an unidentified middle-aged man with heart and metabolic problems.
S.F. OKs toughest recycling law in U.S.
Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine.
Change at Chinatown market under city scrutiny
A notorious former gangster has taken over a Chinatown street market that is financed by San Francisco taxpayers, a development that has set off alarm bells at City Hall.
Bus riders at the back of the stimulus bus
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently voted to approve the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s public transit fare hikes and service cuts, as haveNew York City and cities all over the country.
Oakland council votes to proceed on ID cards
The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to develop proposals for municipal identity cards as a way, primarily, to help illegal immigrants interact with police, banks and others.
Details of Calif.’s proposed social service cuts
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed eliminating or severely cutting spending for non-federally mandated social programs for the poor, elderly and disabled.
San Francisco Assessor Wants to Raise Property Taxes on Corporations
San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting is starting a campaign to amend Proposition 13, the 31-year-old ballot measure that limits the increase of property taxes statewide to 2% a year.
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