Calculated Risk: Moody’s - CRE prices off 41 percent from peak, off 3% in August.
SF Weekly: She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.
SF Weekly: She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.
Commercial Real Estate
- Commercial real estate global spotlight - San Francisco, California.
- Feds ready to start pushing banks toward CRE loan workouts.
- Hotels: Don't buy them now, but start looking.
- Commercial mortgage limits not enforced.
- U.S. architecture billings up in September.
- San Francisco employee pension fund loses $645MM on real estate.
- RREEF to investors: Debt restructuring, default.
- What great wealth transfer?
San Francisco
- From Supervisor Sean Elsbernd: Attention Public Golfers - Save Sharp Park Fundraiser.
- The land of the free (parking).
- Mayor's Office: Supe Campos Is "taunting the opponents of sanctuary city".
- Paper could be the new plastic.
- City to spend $150,000 on disaster aid relief.
- SFPUC starts building stalled headquarters.
- Ken Garcia: Hospital plans prove there’s always more to story.
- Check out Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier's new campaign website for Insurance Commissioner, here.
- Fine hike for disabled placard abuse.
- Funds flow to fix park fountains.
- Muni finds almost 10% of riders are fare cheats.
Marin/San Mateo/Sonoma
- County of Marin and local cities will use state's IOU to sell bonds.
- Campaign mailer takes center stage in San Rafael.
- Assemblymember Jared Huffman's recent newsletter can be found here.
- Assemblymember Jerry Hill will be holding a town hall meeting on October 28th. More information can be found here.
California
- If there are 12 stops from S.F. to Anaheim, it's not "high-speed" rail. It's .... rail.
- Analysis: Schwarzenegger reversals erode trust.
- GOP gov candidate Meg Whitman did register to vote in SF.
- Liberal radio diatribes in 1990s could haunt Jerry Brown in 2010 California governor's race.
- Jerry Brown wins points over CNBC dust-up.
- Study: California should focus training on 'middle-skill' jobs.
The Economy
- What does it mean to be too big to fail?
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Confronting too big to fail.
- Business spending looks up.
- The growing case for a jobless recovery.
- Producer prices drop in September as energy costs fall.
- Economy to impact two-thirds of families this holiday season, according to National Retail Federation survey.
- Luxury spending dispute.
- Private equity returns down 30 percent -- and that's the good news.
- Bernanke urges US to cut budget deficit.
Green Issues
- Why the booming wind industry needs a renewable electricity standard.
- AB32 fees approved for state's largest GHG emitters.
- Seven carbon markets may replace Kyoto, Barclays says.
- The top 10 states for energy efficiency — and some surprising achievers.
General
- Has So-Cal lost its mojo?
- Government made the mess. Now clean it up.
- White House advisers say Fox News is not news.
- Wall Street to Democrats: We wish we knew how to quit you!
- Morning Fix: Obama's populist turn.
- Obama collects while taking on Wall Street at glitzy fund-raiser.
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