Mayor Gavin Newsom's YouTube Update for the week ending December 18, 2009 can be viewed here.
San Francisco Chronicle: California has keen interest in Copenhagen.
Commercial Real Estate
- CMBS Activity: Passing heat wave or a lasting warming?
- U.S. commercial property falls to lowest in 7 years.
- Mayor Newsom's is concerned with San Francsico's commercial property tax reassessments.
- Commercial real estate on shaky foundation.
- Institutional investors opting to stay in real estate investments.
- Good thing the U.S. is getting into commercial real estate.
- Dramatic changes expected in lease accounting: Are you prepared?
San Francisco
- SFPD Chief cracks down on overtime.
- Don't talk trash – compost, recycle, create jobs instead.
- Willie Brown's weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle can be found here.
- Matier & Ross - York: Oakland beats S.F. as 49ers stadium site.
- Watching supes more closely.
- Settlement calls for $4M annual to build curb ramps.
- Sunday Streets to return with expanded schedule.
- What's your ideal San Francisco neighborhood?
- Examiner Editorial: SF schools can't even keep classrooms warm.
- Mayor Newsom taking new approach with budget.
- Ken Garcia: Spendthrift ideals reign.
- Melissa Griffin: Resolution creates a pointless scuffle.
- Street audit reveals city's dirt, grime.
- Sanctuary city policy doesn't have to change.
- Examiner Editorial: Open invitation to steal from San Francisco.
Marin/San Mateo/Sonoma
- Speier: Health care provision bad for state.
California
- Schwarzenegger video on CNN: 'Economy is coming back'.
- Round 3 of California's never-ending budget bout looms.
- Schwarzenegger has options for post-gubernatorial act.
- Lobbyists can't kill measure before it passes, judge says
The Economy
- Goldman: Prepare for the de-stimulus, when fiscal restraint turns into a GDP drag.
- Labor data show surge in hiring of temp workers.
- Bay Area consumers shopping for bargains.
- Zero inflation impacts tax rates, government benefits and tax breaks.
- U.S. Department of Labor Statistics' regional and state employment and unemployment summary can be found here.
- The Economist: Eroding the debt.
- Data shows that the stimulus package was a waste of money.
- Green underwriting standards proposed.
- Clean-Tech investment to climb in 2010.
- Copenhagen pact met with questions.
- China says "development right" key in climate talks.
- The ugly truth about Obama's "Copenhagen Accord".
General
- Time to privatize the Postal Service?
- Obama gets an 'A' for effort from Schwarzenegger.
- Productivity rises as workers do more with less.
- Another real estate bubble -- in China?
- Higher incomes, less happiness.
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