San Franciscoâs Mayor Proposes Fee on Sales of Sugary Soft Drinks
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In a move he says is necessary to trim the cityâs waistline, Gavin Newsom has proposed charging big stores a fee when they sell sugar-sweet soda.
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Mayor Thomas M. Menino is upset at what he says is a marketing ploy that is taking away business from one of the city's most famed retailers.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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Despite some recent controversy, Starbucks will implement a price hike.
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City officials are considering billing the campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry for more than &#36;200,000 to cover police department costs for visits by the candidates, their running mates and spouses.
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The proposed sale of Greater Southeast Community Hospital could cost the District government up to $87 million in public money, roughly $60 million more than initially thought, according to an initial review by aides to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D).
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Nice fit, but too expensive, reckons City
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Mayor Gavin Newsom stepped up the pressure on hotel owners in the San Francisco hotel labor dispute Sunday, issuing a formal letter asking the two sides to adopt a 90-day cooling-off period that would bring workers back to their jobs while negotiations
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Expensive coffee? Starbucks is cheaper than you thought.
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The makers of Guru energy drinks are trying to crack New Yorkâs crowded beverage market with the help of some skilled sales people.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Monday vowed to campaign against the interests of the city&#39;s hotel owners and join the picket line if management fails to end a lockout of about 4,000 workers by 2 pm on Tuesday.
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San Francisco&#39;s mayor set a goal on Thursday of providing free wireless Internet connection citywide. &quot;We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service,&quot; Gavin Newsom
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Starbucks Corp. has launched an  aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from  environmentally friendly farms paying workers a fair wage,  Chief Executive Orin Smith said in an interview.
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San Francisco is gambling that it can provide universal and sensibly managed care to the uninsured for about the amount being spent on their treatment now.
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Three days after California regulators adopted tough rules to cut car pollution, San Francisco's mayor unveiled a plan on Monday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, saying cities must take action because the Bush administration is ignoring global warming.
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By Steve Reilly, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Feb. 6--PUNTA GORDA -- With the city's goal of encouraging more retail  and other commercial growth downtown, the Community Redevelopment Agency board  will decide Wednesday whether the city's "in-lieu-of-parking" fee is too high.
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A San Francisco public health official has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to reclassify Viagra as a controlled substance, which would place the popular impotence pill in a category reserved for prescribed steroids and other legal drugs