A measure may soon take place in San Francisco banning toys that will come along with high calorie meals. With the belief that the toy that comes with the meal makes it more attractive to parents and children, removing the toy will make the meal appear as if it was nasty tasteless cardboard burger that would allow for a healthier choice of lunch or dinner. Seeming to believe that part of the child obesity problem lies not with the parent's choice but with the toy that comes along and that if the accompanied toy were to be removed the child would no longer wish to have his or hers kids meal
San Francisco led the nation when it barred the use of plastic bags at large supermarkets and chain drugstores three years ago. Now it may expand that ban to all retailers, including hardware stores, bookshops, clothing boutiques and department stores.
San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who spearheaded the original law, told The Chronicle he will formally introduce the expansion legislation at today's Board of Supervisors meeting.
If enacted, it could once again put San Francisco at the vanguard of banning the distribution of plastic bags, going further than a statewide ban now under consideration by the California Legislature that has
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has banned all official city travel from San Francisco to Arizona in light of Arizona's passage of the anti-illegal immigration bill. The bill has already caused a lot of controversy as Arizona state looks to make it punishable crime to be an illegal immigrant.
First plastic bags, now bottled water; San Francisco is certainly setting an example. Mayor Gavin Newsom signed an order this week banning the use of City funds to purchase single-serving bottled water. The Mayor told Newsweek:
In a new directive geared towards fighting obesity, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is banning the sale of Coke, Pepsi, and Fanta Orange in vending machines on city property.
The California State Court of Appeals announced today their decision to overturn one of the most restrictive gun bans in the country, following a legal battle by attorneys for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and a previous court order against the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Decision by the California State Court of Appeals is a big win for the law-abiding citizens and NRA Members of San Francisco,” declared Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist
By a 9-2 vote, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a measure Tuesday making it a crime for pet owners to declaw their cats. Violators face a potential jail sentence of six months and fine of up to $1,000.
"Declawing cats is cruel and a form of torture," said the San Francisco measure's author, Ross Mirkarimi, who represents the city's 5th District. "It has not proven to be medically necessary."
San Francisco has become the first city in the United States to ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in pharmacies. The sales ban, which takes effect Oct. 1, passed by an 8-3 vote of the city's Board of Supervisors in late July.
To Keep Its Parakeets Wild, San Francisco Bans Handouts
SAN FRANCISCO, In what may be a legislative first for San Francisco, the city’s Board of Supervisors banned the feeding of a tourist attraction.
A flock of wild green-and-red parakeets spend the evening happy hour in downtown Ferry Park, where dozens of locals and curious tourists have been assembling for the last year or so to feed the birds, often by hand. Children giggle; their parents snap photos.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Board of Supervisors voted to begin a City Hall push to get artery-clogging trans fats out of the food served in San Francisco restaurants. The board approved the measure unanimously, and had the approval of the city's leading restaurateurs' association.
San Francisco is weighing a ban on the sale of cats and dogs… and hamsters, gerbils, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds. That is, every pet except fish. West Hollywood and South Lake Tahoe have banned some pet sales in recent months, but the San Francisco ban, if approved, would go much further,
San Francisco supervisors voted to ban smoking in all parks, public squares and other outdoor spaces that the city owns, joining a handful of other California municipalities that have gotten even tougher on tobacco users.
In an 8-3 vote, the Board of Supervisors agreed that the health and environmental risks associated with discarded cigarette butts and second-hand smoke merited extending existing indoor bans to outdoor spaces.
The Distilled Spirits Council has described the San Francisco board of supervisors' decision to ban new contracts from allowing alcohol advertisements on city property as "a shame".
The board approved an ordinance banning advertisments for alcohol in places including newspaper racks, kiosks and public toilets.
The ordinance, introduced by San Francisco supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, mirrors tobacco ad bans and follows previously enacted bans on alcohol ads on the city's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Municipal Railway (MUNI). "We put a cork in the bottle on alcohol ads with this legislation," Mirkarimi said.
