"How can you not support food trucks?" What's Randy's deal?... and Ben, they do have lower start-up and overhead costs along with being cash and carry.... Imagine having a brick & mortar business anywhere within a Business Improvement District...say within the confines of the Downtown Partnership BD, Midtown PBID, Sutter BID.....like perhaps, Randy. All your patrons are paying a surcharge because of those "districts" but yet a mobile vendor can roll on in and out....cash in hand....and not contribute to that area's maintenance. Now, there is an exception, Drew's Republic on 15th St....places him in the DTP boundary....but his mobile operation still allows him into all the other BID's. I think that is part of the discussion that needs to occur in the permitting process.....contributing to the established business areas in which you are "permitted" to work in. Here's a thought, we already have a mobile night club...or at least a piano bar....imagine if our friendly purveyor of the Acoustic Sanctuary was allowed to morph into the Acoustic and Libation Sanctuary ....do you think some of the other bars would have a problem with that?

Jim and Gayle have been very generous in sharing their historic treasure with the community!

Check out the monthly midtown stomp at the Eastern Star Temple on K between 27th & 28th....including one great big "sprung" dance floor. Next big event...April 14th http://www.midtownstomp.com/event.php?eId=73

Did you look at that Job's Bill? "President Obama on Thursday signed a Republican-crafted bill to loosen securities regulations, including several that were established after the dot-com crash of 2000 and the Enron scandal of 2001, and make it easier for companies to raise cash from the public. Too easy, warned the president's chief of securities law enforcement, several leading academics, the chief investment officer of the giant California Public Employees' Retirement System, and others who said that the legislation will expose investors to infomercial and Internet swindlers. Critics said the new law, dubbed the "Jump-start Our Business Startups" or JOBS Act, could reduce financial transparency and applies so broadly that billion-dollar companies, and potentially much larger corporations, could face less-restrictive disclosure and auditing rule" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/06/MNCP1NVGO9.DTL&feed=rss.pageone Looks more like election year politics as usual.

Having Police and Fire pay their 9% contributuion to their Pension.....instead of nada.