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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Hershey Foods will be raising the price for many of its confectionery products.
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San Miguel Corp. , Asia's  biggest food and drinks group, has agreed to sell its 65  percent stake in a soft drinks venture with Coca Cola Co.   to the U.S. giant for around $700 million, industry  sources said.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Sunday asked labor leaders and the management of 14 hotels embroiled in a nearly month-old dispute to resume normal operations for at least 90 days while the two sides try to negotiate a new contract.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A nice cup of the right kind of cocoa could hold the promise of promoting brain function as people age.
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That&#39;s what city officials offered Tuesday to those who behave lawfully at the Republican National Convention. But the plan doesn&#39;t guarantee that only peaceful protesters will get the reduced prices and the free felt-tip pens.
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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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ANTIOCH, Calif. - Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec.
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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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The drinks industry will have to pay towards policing when 24-hour drinking starts, ministers are to announce.
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Now that Rocky has declared himself a lame duck mayor, a class act would be for him to resign. The City Council could appoint an interim mayor and some progress could be made. Salt Lake City could pay Rocky his full salary while he rides his bike into the sunset or sunrise.
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San Miguel Corp. , Asia's biggest food and drinks group, has agreed to sell its 65 percent stake in a soft drinks venture with Coca Cola Co.  to the U.S. giant for around $700 million, industry sources said.
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams will propose today that the city dedicate at least $245 million in tobacco settlement funds to an array of major health initiatives, from cancer prevention to new comprehensive clinics east of the Anacostia River to significant improvements in hospital emergency care.
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SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco may become the first city in the nation to charge shoppers for grocery bags.  The city's Commission on the Environment is expected to ask the mayor and board of supervisors Tuesday to consider a 17-cent per bag charge on paper and plastic grocery bags.
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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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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
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On Monday, the mayor made the latest in a series of proposals intended to help the city cope in an environmentally sound way with the one million new residents expected by 2030.