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A few months after the temporary stewards of San Francisco’s struggling downtown mall attempted to rename the place, the San Francisco Centre is again the San Francisco Centre this week, they announced. It’s been just over a year since the mall’s previous owners, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and Brookfield Properties, defaulted on a $558 million loan and chose to abandon the 800,000 square foot property. Now, it’s headed to a public auction on the steps of the Memorial Court on Van Ness Avenue on Nov. 14.

TWO DISASTEROUS MOVES BY KERRY [09/23 01:06 PM] Kerry just made two moves that I think are tremendously boneheaded mistakes. The left and the right agree that Iraq is Issue One, that you cannot be elected president unless the American people think you handle this difficult and important mission over there. Kerry came out as the anti-war candidate this week, and I thought that was a much stronger position than his "well, I support the troops, but not the mission, sort of, but, you see, this, but that", etc. But if you want to be the next president, and the...

Analysis: Unions fared well on budget Governor more accommodating than his GOP predecessors. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spent years working in Hollywood, where unions have long had a strong say-so. Perhaps that's why his first budget is far more accommodating to labor than policies pursued by his Republican predecessors.