District Attorney George Gascón announced today he is charging Lorrie's Travel & Tours, Inc., better known as GO Lorrie's, with making illegal contributions to Mayor Ed Lee's campaign.
According to the DA's Office, GO Lorrie's donated $11,500 in illegal contributions last September to the Ed Lee for Mayor 2011 campaign committee. The DA also charged are Jason Perez, 40, of San Mateo, the company's general manager, and Hanan Qutami, 56, of South San Francisco, the company's chief financial officer.
The defendants allegedly made the illegal contributions by passing it through GO Lorrie's drivers and staff.
"Campaign finance and disclosure laws help to ensure fairness and transparency in our elections," said District Attorney George Gascón, "My office takes the violation of these laws very seriously. After a thorough investigation, we have found clear evidence to charge Go Lorrie's and two of its employees with making illegal campaign contributions."
While they have the attention of lovers and horny people everywhere, health officials are glomminh onto Valentine's Day to promote National Condom Week. And that's probably a good idea, considering the news last week detailing San Francisco's STD problem.
Today, the California Family Health Council is teaming up with the California Department of Health to launch the Condom Access Project, hoping this will get more teens to use condoms and stop the egregious spread of STDs.
In short, it means free condoms for kids!
Valentine's Day isn't all red hearts and flowers. It can also be a dark reminder of how many people have a heart of stone.
Thanks, Richmondsfblog.com, for this V-Day gem from Mile Rock Beach!
"I would tell you that no one in our industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple. We are constantly audition facilities, going deep into the supply chain, looking for problems, finding problems, and fixing problems. And we report everything, because we believe that transparency is so very important in this area."
I'm not about to pretend that I know how to solve the economic dilemma that the news business finds itself in. I've been studying the matter, and writing about it off and on, for 16 years, and, like everyone, I really don't know. Maybe it will be nonprofits. Maybe paywalls. Maybe micropayments will somehow be made to work in the distant future. Maybe some combination of all of those, along with advertising.
The only thing I can say for sure is that, unless something fundamental changes in the market, advertising alone isn't going to do it.
Ad-financed journalism is getting worse all the time as news executives cut costs (meaning people) while at the same time employing increasingly desperate tactics to chase the pennies that ads bring in.
Federal agents announced today that they seized 13 kilograms, or close to 29 pounds, of cocaine from a cruise ship docked in San Francisco last month.
According to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a joint operation among federal agencies and local law-enforcement led to two separate discoveries of a large amount of coke on a cruise liner at Pier 35 on Jan. 25. The ship had arrived from Curaçao, according to CBP.
(Update 12:54 p.m.) Police say they arrested Craig Sheppard in connection with the hit-and-run last night. He was charged with felony hit-and-run and failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
(Original story 9:30 a.m.) A 47-year-old woman is in the hospital this morning with life-threatening injuries after she was hit by a car last night while walking through the Mission District.
According to police, the woman was walking across 13th and Mission streets at about 5:48 p.m. when the driver of a white truck turned right onto 13th Street and hit the woman.
The driver fled the scene, leaving the critically injured woman on the street.
If you are bitter about Valentine's Day, who better to take it out on than Wells Fargo and other big banks? After all, they are the ones who broke your heart, right?
We know they've hurt a lot of hearts in Bernal Heights, which is why Occupy Bernal has big plans for this day of love. Neighbors are using Valentine's Day to heal that pain with a new campaign, initiated by Causa Justa::Just Cause, dubbed "Dump the Banks."
And yes, couples are welcome, too.
San Francisco 49ers fans still in search or a silver lining, take heed: Rather than be blinded with science, embrace it!
Matt Lane, an S.F. native and alumnus of University High, is now a doctoral student in mathematics at UCLA. On his Math Goes Pop! blog, he recently pondered whether the 49ers were lucky this season, or good.
Lane's first analysis concerned the team's luck.
