Posts Tagged ‘business’
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Public Defender Jeff Adachi was nowhere to be seen this AM during the big Yes on C, No on D campaign kickoff in the Western A today.
Warren Hellman (who used to be on the other side) and the Wronglers provided music. (Believe it or not, this is Warren’s most understated Star of David getup.)
Via Steve Rhodes
Supervisor Carmen Chu, seen just behind Mayor Ed Lee, could hardly contain her enthusiasm – there was no place in the world she would have preferred to have been than right here, obviously:
Also via Steve Rhodes
A few deets:
“SAN FRANCISCO, September 23, 2011“Yes on C, No On D” pension-reform campaign will hold its campaign kickoff. Warren Hellman’s “old time” band, the Wronglers, will provide entertainment.
WHAT: Yes on C, No on D Campaign Kickoff
WHO: Mayor Ed Lee, Supervisor John Avalos, business and labor leaders
ENTERTAINMENT: The Wronglers
WHEN: Saturday, September 24, 10:30 AM
WHERE: African American Art and Cultural Complex, 762 Fulton St. (@Webster), San Francisco”
Tags: 2011, 762 fulton, African American Art and Cultural Complex, bay area, board, business, california, campaign, carmen chu, city family, David Chiu, district, ed lee, jeff adachi, john avalos, labor, leaders, Mayor, Mayor Ed Lee, nate ballard, No on D, pension, Proposition, public defender, Reform, San Francisco, scott, Scott Wiener, Sean Elsbernd, Steve Rhodes, Supervisor, warren hellman, western addition, Wronglers, Yes on C
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
[UPDATE: So is Zendesk the only San Francisco company that hasn't threatened to move out of San Francisco lately? Apparently, see the Comments. BTW, did you know that:
"[a]ny tweets that mention Zendesk are immediately turned into what we like to call a “twicket,” that is, a tweet that is converted into a support ticket.“
Well, that’s news to me.
Oh, and here’s your chance to get in on the land rush:
“Central Market Street and Tenderloin Area Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion is now publicly available and can be found on the Office of Economic and Workforce Development website, www.oewd.org, as well as on the new Central Market Partnership website, www.centralmarketpartnership.org. Applications are being accepted now, and the deadline to apply for the 2011 tax year is November 1, 2011. Please contact the Office of Economic and Workforce Development at 415-554-6969 with any questions regarding the application for the Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion.”]
I don’t really get this one here. Zendesk needed corporate welfare to move into the Mid-Market and it wasn’t going to do so anyway, do I have that right?
Leave us review. Former Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a payroll tax into law back in 2004. But a half-decade later, Twitter decided that it didn’t like Gavin Newsom’s tax, so an exemption was made for Twitter, and others so bold as to set up shop in an area that was mapped out by real estate interests and others, only Gaia knows.
Now we hear that ZenDesk agreed to expand in Mid Market thanks to the recent Twitter Tax waiver?
Is that the narrative?
A tourist takes it easy after an eventful day in the Mid Market a couple months back. I forget how many people got shot all told:
Via Bluoz – click to expand
So here’s the latest:
“We <3 SF. To prove our commitment to this rad city we’ve pledged $1M to @UCSF @Benioff Children’s Hospital: http://prn.to/pzzYwt“
Now, is it possible that ZenDesk didn’t need that subsidy to move into the Twitterloin? Sure seems that way. Mmmm…
And let me assure you that nothing has substantively changed betwixt Dot Com Era I of the late 90′s and our current Dot Com Era II as far as stock options are concerned. Obviously, a San Francisco company going public might not want to deal with the 2004 tax signed into law by Gavin Newsom. Obviously. So what’s changed the past seven years?
Here’s “interim” Mayor Ed Lee from this year:
“We’re not about punishing any companies that need to grow and grow fast,” said Mayor Lee.
So why did Gavin Newsom sign his tax into law back in aught-four? Did he do it to “punish companies?” Did he do it to “kill jobs?” Was Gavin Newsom a “job killer?”
Apparently.
Hey, how about this? Why not treat all companies the same? Why not get rid subsidies for biotech? Why not address concerns about Mid Market without corporate welfare?
“SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31, 2011 — Zendesk, the leading provider of proven, cloud-based help desk software, today announced a $1 million pledge to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
“Zendesk was founded in Denmark and moved to San Francisco in 2009,” said Mikkel Svane, Zendesk’s CEO. “We have been humbled by the wonderful way we have been welcomed to this city and its vital high-tech community. As Zendesk continues its rapid growth, we want to share our good fortune with the city and people that helped make it possible. As a father and client of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, this charity is especially meaningful to me.”
Zendesk is kicking off this year-long effort with a sponsorship of the Salesforce Foundation’s Concert to Benefit the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital to be held on Thursday, September 1, 2011. Zendesk will host its customers, partners and employees to attend this charity event. Throughout the next year, Zendesk will donate a portion of its sales, as well as hold other fund-raising events, to deliver on its $1 million pledge. In addition, its employees will participate in volunteer programs for the hospital.
“The Salesforce Foundation has been an inspiration to us on how to integrate philanthropy into a company’s culture,” Svane added. “Today’s announcement is just the first of many demonstrating Zendesk’s gratitude to the city of San Francisco. Having just moved into new headquarters in the Central Market, we also look forward to making our new neighborhood a better place to work.”
“It’s great to see Zendesk, one of San Francisco’s rapidly growing tech companies, already giving back to the citizens of San Francisco,” said Mayor Edwin M. Lee. “We are grateful to them for their generous pledge to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.”
About Zendesk
Zendesk is the leading provider of proven, cloud-based help desk software. For growing organizations, Zendesk is the fastest way to enable great customer service. More than 10,000 Zendesk customers, including Adobe, MSNBC, Sony, OpenTable and Groupon, trust Zendesk with their most valuable assets, their customers, partners, and employees. Founded in 2007, Zendesk is funded by Charles River Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.”
Tags: 2004, 2011, Alioto-Pier, ammiano, Article 12-A, bay area, Benioff, business, california, charity, Daly, dufty, edwin lee, gavin newsom, Gonzalez, hall, hospital, Ma, Maxwell, Mayor, McGoldrick, mid market, OEWD, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, options, payroll, Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance, Peskin, San Francisco, sandoval, stock, tax, taxes, twicket, twitter, twitterloin, ucsf, zendesk
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
You know who knew about today’s big news, this real estate deal, last week? JK Dineen of the San Francisco Bizness Timez, that’s who.
Look at this beaut:
The brick, five-story Folger Coffee Company Building at 101 Howard in San Francisco, California was the former headquarters of Folgers. It is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places.]The building still has a sign saying “The Folgers Coffee Company” on one corner. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has its California campus on the top floor, where Wharton’s MBA for Executives program is offered.”
Oh baby, it’s your classic Brick & Timber:
Via Eric in SF - click to expand
This building was put up on landfill (in a place where San Francisco Bay used to be 15 feet(!) deep) and it got finished in, wait for it, 1905, just in time for the Great Fire and Earthquake of 1906. But that was no problem at all ’cause of all the pilings it had driven 40 feet(!) into the mud. And the fires, well they just happened to stop right across the street.
See? “X” marks the spot and the dark yellow shows where the fires went:
Via Access PR
That’s part of what makes it historic:
Folger Coffee Company Building (added 1996 – - #96000679)
101 Howard St. , San Francisco
Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Schulze, Henry A.
Architectural Style: Renaissance
Area of Significance: Engineering, Commerce, Community Planning And Development, Architecture
Period of Significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Commerce/Trade, Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function: Business, Manufacturing Facility
Current Function: Commerce/Trade
Current Sub-function: Business
Built to last:
It’s an icon:
And high ceilings to boot:
Bon Courage University of San Francisco! Welcome back to SoMA!
All the deets:
“USF Purchases Historic Folger Building
08-02-2011
The University of San Francisco has agreed to buy the historic Folger Coffee Building in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
Listed on the National Registerof Historic Places and located within walking distance of where USF first opened its doors in 1855 at Fourth and Market streets, the agreed purchase of the Folger Building at 101 Howard St. marks a return to the university’s roots in downtown San Francisco.
With easy access to freeways, the Bay Bridge, and public transportation, the location builds on USF’s 156-year history of service to San Francisco, while acting on the university’s goals to be more visible and more tightly woven into the fabric of the city.
“By relocating some of the university’s programming, we will have more opportunity to serve multiple audiences – allowing USF to be closer to the businesses and civic organizations with which we currently partner, while also engaging new prospects for collaboration,” said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. “With neighbors such as Google, Twitter, DropBox, SalesForce.com, and established legal and financial services firms, this acquisition presents tremendous opportunity for new corporate partnerships and places USF in the center of innovation.”
With 90 percent of the Folger Building currently occupied by tenants, USF’s presence in downtown will be limited in the near term. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jennifer Turpin, in consultation with the deans and faculty, will finalize decisions about what academic programs will occupy the downtown space and on what schedule. No decisions have been made yet as to what administrative and non-academic units will be housed in the new building.
Written by Edward Carpenter”
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
This street imp was looking like all the others, just a slob like one of us, until he pulls a rock out of his hoodie and hurls a 70 mph fastball across 9th without really breaking stride. He reared back and hurled but then resumed walking with a quickness.
I was supposing he was throwing the rock at a person but his target was a business vehicle, a white van.
The thing is he threw it down and counted on a random bounce get it up to where it could do some damage.
Anyway, here he is, walking away, all casual, IndyBay personified. If you looked around after getting struck you wouldn’t necessarily suspect him. This kid’s a pro, a professional:
And here’s his rock, found right in the middle of the sidewalk across the street, seen next to a fat lawyer’s shoe for comparison:
How many more stones does this kid have in his hoodie’s marsupial pocket? Probably lots.
So this is why your window gets broken randomly, for no reason.
Now you’d think the hormones coursing through his veins would be telling him to get out there and try to impress girls, or boys, or whomever, you know, so he could have sex or something, right? But no, all that frustration and energy gets poured into another kind of release, the satisfaction of hearing breaking windows or causing grievous bodily injury to random pedestrians on the mean streets of San Francisco.
Oh well…
Tags: 2011, 9th, bay area, business, california, crime, felon, harrison, imp, market, rock, San Francisco, soma, south, stone, street, Vandal, vandalism
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle writer CW Nevius blew into town just last year to live in District 6, but already he’s adopted far-off Upper Haight as one of his causes.
See?
“…shops continue to have an alarmingly difficult time of making a go of it, even if the corner of Haight and Ashbury is still on every tourist’s must-visit list…. They’ve reached out to the San Francisco Travel Association to aggressively market the area and are considering street lighting and flower planters to dress up the street. But none of that is going to matter as long as Haight landlords continue to burden the corridor with unreasonable rents.“
Always with the real estate, huh? As it is with fellow East Bay carpetbagger and Official Nevius Buddy (ONB) Randy Shaw, who just loooooves getting money from the City and County of San Francisco and, coincidentally, cheerleading for real estate interests and the campaign of Mayor Ed Lee.
Anyway, you’d think that commercial property owners in the 94117 would know exactly how much to charge for rent, but you’re WRONG WRONG WRONG! Only The Nevius knows the precise amount you should charge.
He knows What’s Best For Us.
Click to expand
Oh Nevius, please, please tell us more!
Don’t stop. Don’t ever stop your part-time, six-figure job.
The White Gods!
Come from the East at last!
Tags: 2011, 94117, ashbury, bay area, business, c w nevius, c. w., california, chuck, haight, High, Nevius, randy shaw, rent, rent control, rents, reset, San Francisco, sit lie, small, upper, White Gods
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
All right, work with me here, “Interim Mayor” Edwin Lee is now saying that San Francisco’s unique stock option payroll tax scheme is a kind of “business punisher,” right?
Edwin Lee, seen here with popular new Supervisor Malia Cohen:
Check it, from a recent ditty from Adam Lashinsky in Fortune magazine:
“We have kind of a unique taxing system here in San Francisco where historically we’ve actually taxed employees’ growth, and that’s kind of a business punisher, if you will. If you’re going to grow the employees, why would we punish that?”
All right, so who signed this horrible, terrible, horrible tax into law? None other than former Mayor Gavin Newsom just seven years ago.
Check it:
“On February 19, 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom approved recent changes to San Francisco’s Business Tax ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors on February 10, 2004. These changes become effective March 20, 2004, 30 days after signing by the Mayor.”
So, how can we reconcile this? Here’s a stab at it, again from Mayor Lee:
“Now, we’ve never really distinguished stock options; we’ve always taxed compensation just like any payroll tax would. But we didn’t realize that stock options was something very special to the tech companies. And as they’ve grown, they’ve educated us about how valuable those stock options are.”
But didn’t we have stock options and tech companies about back in the dotcom era? Yes we did. Has anything changed since then, are stock options new? No, not at all.
I cry foul.
And I’ll tell you, I don’t see a way out of this one. Tell me, Gentle Reader, how can we reconcile dese tings?
(Also, note how the Supervisors voted back int the day. Do you think Sean Elsbernd, if he had gotten his current gig just a little earlier, would have voted against this “job punishing” biz tax back in the day? Don’t know. It’s hard to imagine him defying Gavin Newsom, but anything’s possible, I suppose.)
Enjoy:
“031990
[Business Tax]
Supervisors Ma, McGoldrick
Ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to: (1) amend Article 12-A (Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance) to (i) conform Article 12-A (Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance) with the amendments to Article 6 (Common Administrative Provisions) and (ii) consolidate exemptions, definitions and other administrative provisions, as amended, that apply to Article 12-A (Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance) and other Articles of the Business and Tax Regulation Code, and place them in Article 6 (Common Administrative Provisions); (2) amend Article 12 (Business Registration Ordinance) to conform business registration requirements with amendments to Article 12-A (Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance) and Article 6 (Common Administrative Provisions); and (3) amend Article 6 (Common Administrative Provisions) to (i) clarify common administrative provisions and conform them with amendments to Article 12-A (Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance) and Article 12 (Business Registration Ordinance), (ii) consolidate exemptions, definitions and other administrative provisions that apply to Article 12-A (Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance), Article 12 (Business Registration Ordinance) and other Articles of the Business and Tax Regulations Code, and (iii) eliminate the Board of Review. (Treasurer-Tax Collector)
PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
Ayes: 11 – Alioto-Pier, Ammiano, Daly, Dufty, Gonzalez, Hall, Ma, Maxwell, McGoldrick, Peskin, Sandoval”
Tags: 2004, 2011, Alioto-Pier, ammiano, Article 12-A, bay area, business, california, Daly, dufty, edwin lee, gavin newsom, Gonzalez, hall, Ma, Maxwell, Mayor, McGoldrick, mid market, payroll, Payroll Expense Tax Ordinance, Peskin, San Francisco, sandoval, tax, taxes, twitter, twitterloin
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Is there any group of people more short-sighted than San Francisco’s always-up-in-arms small-time bidnessmen and bidnesswomen? (Why yes - the Supervisors who sometimes do their bidding.)
Anywho, somehow, back in the day, a crazy idea to rename one of the Streets of San Francisco was not put into action, so that’s why we call Valencia Street Valencia Street today.
Check it:
Click to expand. Via Eric Fischer Hey, you know how much money we give away for crappy public art that nobody likes except the “artist” who made $$$$ making the public art? We ought to give some of that to Eric Fischer just so we are assured that he keeps up his efforts. Or we could give him 100K a year, cheaper than a meter maid but so much more valuable…
Tags: 2011, bay area, business, california, change, district, mercahnts, mission, name, rename, San Francisco, soma, south market, south market street, street, sunshine belt, valencia
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
[Oh, here we go, it's the Citizen of Tomorrow Awards, just posted.]
Now, the problem I had last night was being too ambitious, thinking I could drop by the First Birthday Celebration of The Bay Citizen and then hustle it uphill to the Specfic Whites neighborhood by nine-ish, thinking that this year’s party would be like last year’s, you know, the one they had in the Twitterloin. That one was off the hook.
Anyway, here it is at the stated 8:00 PM starting time. (A dozen people to park your car, but only one to check you into the place.)
(Why, yes, Terra _is_ 200 feet away from a bridge and two miles away from a tunnel – why do you ask?)
And here are your food trucks. (Everything seems to taste better when it’s from a truck, non?)
Click to expand
I guess things got going later in the evening. But I’ll tell you, if you skipped the first hour of last year’s soiree, which was off the hook, you would have missed a lot.
The good thing is that The Bay Citizen produced, as designed, a lot of good stuff the past year.
Anyway, Bon Anniversaire, The Bay Citizen.
Tags: $25, 2010, 2030 Media, 26, 501c3, 511 harrison, Anne Stuhldreher, Annette Fuentes, Anthony Bernhardt, Anthony Moor, Arthur Rock, awards, bamp, Bay Area News Project, bay citizen, Bay Citizen editor-in-chief, Bay Citizen managing editor, beats, Berkeley, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, bloggers, Brock Keeling, business, Citizen of Tomorrow, civic, Community Editor, core, crime, culture, Dede, Diane Wilsey, didi, don, Douglas McGray, editor, editor in chief, Elizabeth Lesly Stevens, Elizabeth Stevens, environmental, eve batey, Family, Fellow, finance, fisher, gamh, Gerry Shih, government, Graduate School of Journalism, great american music hall, hardly strictly news, health, in chief, interns, Jeanne Carstensen, jeff, Jim Daly, Joe Payne, Jonathan Weber, Jr. Foundation, Kate McLean, Katharine Mieszkowski, kickoff, Knight, Knight Foundation, land use, launch, Laura Fraser, Laurie, Lisa Frazier, Lois Beckett, Lynn Feintech, managing, Marie McIntosh, Maureen Fan, may, Michael Stoll, Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, Neil Henry, New America Foundation, news, Newsroom, nonproft, o'farrell, Owen Thomas, paid, Partner Program, party, photographs, photos, pics, politics, Polk, post, project, Queena Kim, regional, Reyhan Harmanci, Richard Parks, S.D. Bechtel, salaries, San Francisco, san francisco appeal, San Francisco Foundation, science, SF Public Press, sfist, Shoshana Walter, soma, Staff, stanford, Steve Fainaru, street, students, Tasneem Raja, terra anniversary, the bay citizen, Ubben, uc berkeley, university of california, VentureBeat, warren hellman, washington post, Wilsey, Writer, yahoo, Zoe Corneli, Zusha Elinson
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
[UPDATE: Word on the street is that it''s wide open for those who didn't RSVP - there are 130 extra seats so you'd have a shot at getting in tonight if you so desire. REUPDATE: The cold dawn of Tuesday morning reveals that the RSVP requirement was strictly enforced, at least it was on one h. Brown. I don't know, I'm used to more open debates and forums and whatnot. I'd heard from one of the campaigns that there were only 170 RSVPs the afternoon before this event, so that meant that "it doesn't matter if you rsvp'd or not." Oh well.]
From Fog City Journal comes word of the District 6 Candidates Forum starrring “Sweet Melissa” Griffin and hosted by the South Beach / Mission Bay Business Association. All your favorites will be there, including:
Jane Kim, Jim Meko, Theresa Sparks, Debra Walker, and Elaine Zamora
All the deets are here. You might be too late to RSVP at this point, I don’t know.
You can’t elect a supe until Melissa Griffin hosts a debate of the issues. Here she was a couple years back in District 9:
SBMB Business Association Board
Chair/President – Katherine Webster
Vice President – Leslie Hennessey
Secretary – Dr. Robert Privatsky
Treasurer – Sherry Cookson
Director -Eric Rubin
Director -Eric Steckel
Director -Teresa Birch
SBMB Members
Aim Mail Center
Andrea Schwartz Gallery
Bacar
Bars & Tone
Brannan St. Chiropractic
Cole Hardware
Hennesey’s Wines and Specialty Foods
Jack Falstaff
Jeffrey Lee Insurance
Linda Graham (Prudential Reality)
MM Galleries
Momo’s
Nova Bar
O’Neills Irish Pub
Pacific Corporate Suites
Primo Patio Cafe
Rubenstein Law Group P.C.
S.F. Maz
Storytelling Media
Sweet Buds Floral
The Butler and The Chef Bistro
Thistle and Company
Tres Agaves
Walgreens #1297 – 670 4th St.
Walgreens #3185 – 825 Market St.
Walgreens #4275 – 456 Mission St.
Walgreens #6291 – 116 New Montogmery
Walgreens #7044 – 88 Spear St.
Zsa Zsa
Tags: 2010, 250 Brannan, association, bay area, Bay Business Association, board, business, california, Candidates Forum, debate, debra Walker, district 6, District 6 Candidates Forum, dr., Elaine Zamora, Eric Rubin, Eric Steckel, Jane Kim, Jim Meko, Katherine Webster, Kick Labs, KickLabs, Leslie Hennessey, melissa griffin, mission, Moderator, Robert Privatsky, San Francisco, SBMB, Sherry Cookson, South Beach, South Beach / Mission Bay Business Association, street, Supervisor, supervisors, sweet melissa, Teresa Birch, theresa sparks
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
[Whoops, spoke too soon - turns out that the SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle's Katie Baker was en la casa. The conspiracy of silence broken.]
Despite all the obituaries written earlier this year, The Bay Citizen celebrated its launch yesterday at the Great American Music Hall. Some TBC editors on the scene were fretting about getting a new batch of “stately idiom” finished up for the following morning, but a good time was had by all.
They literally rolled out the red carpet in the Tenderloin last night:
Who was there? Everybody. (Everybody excepting some of the hAtERz in local media who feel any new investment should go to existing concerns, you know, the ones that employ the hAtERz themselves. The hAtERz that showed somehow even managed to generate, with noticeable effort, Mona Lisa smile/smirks for the camera.) The place was packed from the get-go, baby. Check out the Party Pix from E.B.Boyd showing who all was there.
Standing room only:
Bay Citizen CEO Lisa Frazier (pronounced fraze-yah) started things off by inviting Founder Warren Hellman to play a song.
Lois Beckett snapped the chorus and here are the full lyrics to the sing-a-long tune Hardly Strictly News. Note the A-A-B-B rhyming scheme. Also note:
“We met with Lisa Frazier who pronounced ‘for now it will be free’/
A multi-layered news hub is the only way to be.”
What, “for now?” Uh oh:
Click to expand. It’s quite legible at 1200 pixels.
Anyway, F. Warren appeared to be somewhat irked by the constant chatter of the assembled throng. Oh well.
Here’s the mise-en-scene from up on the catwalk:
A big thank you to all the founding investors, founding members, patrons, and corporate sponsors. Notably, Dede Wilsey’s name isn’t on this list, so perhaps she just recently kicked in her seven figure donation? (Or let’s call it a $500,000 donation with Uncle Sucker kicking another half mil., mas o menos. That’s the thing with non-profit journalism – the federal govmint lowers your taxes by about 50 cents for every dollar you donate, assuming you pay a lot of taxes in the first place. This is the Unfair Advantage that the Chronicle people complain about. Speaking of which, nothing yet about TBC from the SFC – check for yourself.)
Everybody’s a star:
$5 tote bags just like Trader Joe’s and the KQED, plus loads of free bumper stickers:
The lives of the party:
Anyway, had to bail early to get down to Massive Attack at the Warfield while Arcadio was playing the TBC party. The booze was flowing and the place was still packed when I left, anyway.
Bon Courage, Bay Citizen!
All the deets, after the jump
(more…)
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