Within inter-office e-mails between city planners obtained by SF Weekly
and in follow-up interviews, department employees and those familiar
with the department referred positively to Amdur as "capable" -- but were
puzzled by the lack of disclosure.
Rahaim said he "was not aware I needed to" disclose the apartment stay -- though he subsequently called back and noted that he had been informed that he is required to make the disclosure. He promised to do so by the end of the month on his Statement of Economic Interest form, housed at the Ethics Commission.
side, and the Pacific Ocean on the other, and the magnificent parts of
the California coast?...People
value the land there and they've worked hard for generations to protect
it. The environment is not an issue here - it's valued, cherished ...
and sustained by each generation." Oh, yeah -- they also have one of the highest median family incomes in the country. But that's probably second to the bitchin' landscape.
San Francisco, which falls within Congressional District 8, ranked high, too. The poll takes into account not just health, but social and mental contentment as well. So California, and the Bay Area, appear to be totally stoked on life! Except that, uh, a record number of Californians also think our state is totally in the toilet. Huh.
Dariush Kayhan, the mayor's homelessness policy director, was at the court and said the woman hangs out on Grove Street. He said he has offered her assistance more than 30 times, but she's turned him down.
Adachi asked the judge for permission to try himself. He found her and sat down on the sidewalk in his black suit and lavender silk tie to talk to her, prompting stares from passers-by. She agreed to head to the court with him, carrying all of her belongings.
Retail giant Costco -- the big box store that stoked America's Brobdingnagian appetite for eight-packs of cereal, 40-unit boxes of AA batteries, and mayonnaise jars the size of R2-D2 -- is being sued. The charge: Shorting its shrimp.
A class action suit filed in New York City accuses Costco of systematically serving only 13 or 14 ounces of shrimp in its supposedly one-pound (16 ounce) cocktail shrimp platters. When you tabulate the money Costco has allegedly saved by doling out imaginary shrimp -- it adds up. The suit claims the store's shrimp-purchasing customers are being bilked out of between $13.32 million and $39.97 million a year.
In addition to compensatory damages, disgorgement, and/or restitution, the plaintiffs are seeking an injunction which would forbid Costco from selling the shrimp platters until they are relabeled (perhaps the first shrimp-related injunction since a close friend walked out of the middle of Forrest Gump and refused to watch another Tom Hanks movie for five years).
A call to San Francisco's Costco revealed that a pound of shrimp will run you $9.99. When asked if anyone had ever complained that there was less than a pound of shrimp in the platter, a meat department employee laughed and replied, "Naaaaaaah."
H/T | Courthouse News
