SF Shops For Socially Responsible Bank To Handle City's Billions
Banks vying for the chance to manage San Francisco's municipal accounts will have to answer hard questions about how they have handled foreclosures, said City Treasurer Jose Cisneros.
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Banks vying for the chance to manage San Francisco's municipal accounts will have to answer hard questions about how they have handled foreclosures, said City Treasurer Jose Cisneros.
Archbishop George Niederauer is joining the campaign to overturn a new federal rule that requires religious hospitals, schools and charities to cover the cost of birth control for their employees.
Mayor Jean Quan didn't mention the Occupy Oakland protests that have brought attention to her city except to obliquely say that the city has experienced "lots of turns" and "challenges."
California and New York have agreed to sign the proposed settlement between U.S. states and the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses, according to a source close to the negotiations.
The activists who championed property tax caps and lawmaker term limits said they planned to begin circulating petitions for a ballot measure that would make the California Legislature a part-time body.
For the fourth time in seven years, California Voters will most likely have the opportunity to vote on whether or not a girl's parents should be notified if their young daughter is going to have an abortion.
California's Assembly Speaker John Perez wants to cut college costs by two thirds by cutting corporate tax breaks to raise a billion dollars each year. Perez is introducing his plan in Sacramento Wednesday.
A new Silicon Valley report concludes that California needs to rethink how local government services are financed, while also calling for a re-examination of Proposition 13.
Embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was granted visitation rights with his son at a court hearing Wednesday morning.
Occupy protesters shouted down members of the Oakland City Council during a meeting at which the board was planned to vote on bolstering enforcement of protests in the city.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages, is unconstitutional.
The hacker group Anonymous appears to have posted the addresses and other personal information of Oakland city officials to the Internet.
Over 16,000 signatures have been turned into San Francisco's Registrar of Voters from a group trying to preserve Coit Tower, which is well over the number needed to put the issue to voters.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has decided to reconsider a settlement with some of the country's biggest banks over the foreclosure crisis.
A federal appeals court is ready to announce its ruling on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.
