Safari users, here’s your link to our feature about the park department’s rehiring laid-off directors.
You breeze through security and arrive at the gate early, grab a coffee, sit, flip through a magazine and wait patiently for your chance to board the aircraft. But when Group 3 is finally called (assuming you forgot to do your online check in exactly 24 hours ahead of time), the panic sets in: Where%2Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
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my boarding pass? Did I leave it at the Starbucks counter? Use it to bookmark those wedges in InStyle? Drop it in the restroom?
Anxiety begone. SFO has quietly begun paperless boarding. Your boarding pass barcode is delivered in an email to your cellphone, which you can scan at newly installed kiosks. Unless, of course, something funky is going on with your Gmail account, like what happened yesterday afternoon.
The New York Times reports on a new study that shows low-wage workers are cheated out of their wages even more than previously expected. Undocumented women immigrants were the most likely to suffer minimum wage violations, and among American-born workers, African-Americans had a violation rate nearly triple that for whites.
Also in the Times, a piece on rising star chef Nate Appleman, formerly executive chef at A16, who left SF to set up shop with big-time NYC restaurateur Keith McNally. Appleman gave at least one reason for his move: “In San Francisco the audience is easy. You put tripe in a bowl and tell them it’s from a humanely raised cow and they’re going to eat it … New York is totally different.”
In other restaurant news, Mission Loc@l boldfaced name Gus Murad, owner of Medjool, resigned from the Small Business Commission, leaving a post Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed him to in January 2006.
Later this morning Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will deliver keynote remarks at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce CitySummit 2009, a forum on national health insurance reform held at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
The Baynewser has this, and SF Weekly this, on more layoffs at the Chron.
(Soft) opening today: Mission Comics and Art at 3520 20th St.
just wanted to let you know the main story link doesn’t work in chrome on windows as well as in safari 🙁