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San Francisco’s “Overpaid CEO” initiative would tax businesses to raise over $200 million a year for the city. Mayor Lurie came out strongly against it—but Io Yeh Gilman reports that many of his allies on the Board of Supervisors are bucking him to support the measure.

The much-hyped Sixth Street “oasis” started as a police “triage center” for dealing with downtown drug addiction and homelessness. Now it’s closed, writes Béatrice Vallières, and the city is shifting the staff into what it calls “deployable and dynamic” street teams.

But a crackdown on late-night stores in the Tenderloin is expanding to parts of SoMa. Police credit the midnight-5AM curfew with reducing violent crime and narcotics sales, though some unhappy store owners say it will force them to lay off employees.

Do you remember Paco’s Tacos? It’s History Worth Knowing. Take a look at some Mission Memories with this video of a 2010 talk by Roberto Ariel Vargas.

More soon,

Sara

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A man speaks at a podium during a rally, surrounded by people holding signs that read “Stand up for SF” and “Save SF General!” in support of San Francisco small businesses and hospitals.

S.F. Mayor Lurie doesn’t like the CEO tax. But his allies on the board do.

“This is a San Francisco problem.”

People at an outdoor area: a woman with a dog, an officer walking, a person texting, and another resting on a green table under a canopy. A brick wall serves as the background.

S.F. closes downtown ‘oasis,’ shifting staff to street patrols

“It was a Band-Aid.”

Glass-door refrigerator at a grocery store with mostly empty shelves, displaying limited dairy and juice products.

S.F. supervisors vote to expand late-night store ban to parts of SoMa  

“It’s going to kill us. By that law, it’s going to put my workers out of work.”

History Worth Knowing

History Worth Knowing: Mission Memories

Carlos Santana, Paco’s Tacos, and the UFW

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Sunset over a neighborhood with houses, apartment buildings, trees, and hills in the background under a colorful sky with pink and orange clouds.
Nature’s gradient
By Lauren Shimada

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Tomorrow: 826 Valencia and Youth Speaks present the San Francisco Youth Poet Laureate Showcase, SFPL, January 23, 6-9PM

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