News Articles
- March 19, 2010 | from sfgate.com S.F. sues over PG&E-backed ballot measure San Francisco and a group of government-owned utilities from around California took their campaign against a Pacific Gas and Electric Co.-sponsored ballot measure to court Thursday, arguing that Proposition 16 is a power grab dressed up as an expansion of taxpayers' rights.
- March 09, 2010 | from sfexaminer.com City scores $10 million in power plant equipment sale San Francisco's battered general fund will receive an expected $10 million injection of funds this fiscal year after it sold power plant equipment.
- February 03, 2010 | from SFGate.com Judge sanctions CitiApartments in city lawsuit A judge has tagged CitiApartments and its related companies with a $50,000 fine for failing to turn over to the city legally required information in what City Attorney Dennis Herrera called "elaborate financial shell games."
- January 15, 2010 | from SFGate.com A cleaner future Residents of San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood got an early Thanksgiving treat this week. The California Independent System Operator has given the city clearance for a November shutdown of the Mirant power plant in Potrero Hill, one of the dirtiest in California.
- January 15, 2010 | from SFGate.com Herrera to make a court appearance City Attorney Dennis Herrera is scheduled appear in court Tuesday in the federal trial over the constitutionality of California's voter-backed ban on same-sex marriage.
- October 29, 2009 | from SF Weekly Judge Orders Pink Diamonds Strip Club Closed for One Year San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ordered today that the Pink Diamonds be closed for one year, a victory for City Attorney Dennis Herrera in his efforts to crack down on the notoriously violent strip club.
- October 27, 2009 | from SF Examiner City takes aim at hotel plagued with police calls SAN FRANCISCO — A Marina district hotel allegedly crawling with bedbugs, rats and criminals is the target of a lawsuit by City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
- October 27, 2009 | from SF Weekly Oh, Snap: City Attorney Demands Proof of Cocoa Krispies' Immunity-Boosting Claim Kellogg's just can't get a break. First, one pissed-off cereal consumer realizes that Froot Loops cereal contains no actual fruit and decides to sue for false advertising. Now Kellogg's is dealing with more false advertising claims, this time from San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, who just announced that he has written a letter to the CEO of the cereal company demanding evidence that Cocoa Krispies really "helps support your child's immunity" as it purports to do on the front of the box.
- October 14, 2009 | from San Francisco Chronicle Herrera Deserves a Third Term In a meeting with our editorial board Tuesday, Dennis Herrera was careful to remind us that he's running for a third term as San Francisco's city attorney, even though his robust campaign in the absence of opposition is stoking speculation about his mayoral ambitions.
- September 20, 2009 | from San Francisco Chronicle Herrera's power play - on video City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who is running unopposed for a third term and hopes to become mayor in a couple years, unveiled a new commercial this weekend (view it at www.cleanairsanfrancisco.com) that mentions neither election.
