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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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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Sweetener intended to persuade them to back PM's plan for extending surgery opening hours
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SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has asked labor leaders and the management of fourteen hotels for a ninety-day cooling-off period in their contract dispute.
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In the wake of recent violence on and around the Champs-Elysees, a district mayor is pressing police to ban nighttime alcohol sales at convenience stores in the neighborhood around Paris' famous main avenue.
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EAST MANATEE - One way the struggling Florida citrus industry can get a boost is for the US government to slap a tariff on countries that sell juice below costs, local citrus growers agree.
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Starbucks, the largest US chain of coffee shops, plans to raise its beverage prices by year&#39;s end to cover higher costs for milk and health insurance amid slowing sales.
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Tuesday launched a blitz against bottled mineral water, urging restaurant customers in the capital to ask for tap water to help the environment.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 16--Los Angeles entrepreneur Quay Hays wants to build a new city in Kings County.   And because of it, people constantly ask him whether he has ever had his head examined.
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The Coca-Cola Co. KO.N is in talks to   take over management and control of the soft drinks arm of the   Philippines' San Miguel Corp. SMCB.PS, though a formal deal   has yet be agreed, a Coke official said on Monday.
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By Terri Hardy, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 27--City Councilman Robbie Waters' campaign finance records show he's paid himself $500 each month since July 2004 to house a district office for constituents in his framing shop in south Sacramento -- a potential violation of state law.
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Putting pressure on the Legislature to act, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today will introduce a proposal to reduce Boston's property taxes $200 a year for the average homeowner if the Legislature gives the city the ability to impose a 1 percent meals tax and a tax on telecommunications companies.
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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec.
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By EUGENE TONG\\ Staff Writer  GLENDALE -- A proposed fee for developers that could raise up to $200 million for new parks, open space and libraries over the next two decades is on hold after the City Council deferred to builders' concerns that it is too much, too soon.
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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.