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which opened in 1998. “Every restaurant in the entire Bay Area is Daily Post Staff Writers feeling this type of pressure,” SeLeft Bank Brasserie, a staple villa said in an interview Monday. Left Bank’s sister restaurants restaurant in downtown Menlo Park and fixture in the Peninsu- are closing in Tiburon, Larkspur, la culinary scene, served its final San Ramon and Santana Row, the plates of Steak Frites and Duck parent company Vine Hospitality announced. Confit yesterday. Menlo Park’s last day was yesGeneral Manager Roderick Sevilla said the costs of labor were the terday, and all employees will be biggest challenge for the French laid off, Sevilla said. A filing with restaurant at 635 Santa Cruz Ave., the state says the restaurant’s 42 employees’ layoffs were effective yesterday. AU REVOIR — Seats were filled People lined up outside Left and there was a line around Left Bank’s doors as the dinner rush Bank Brasserie for it’s final dinner began. Parties could be seen eatservice last night. Post photo by [See ADIEU, page 18] Stephanie Lam. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT AND STEPHANIE LAM
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NUKE SITE DISPUTE: The U.S. and Iran dispute whether Tehran had agreed to allow U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites. As officials negotiated over how to permanently end the war in Iran, a separate plan emerged Tuesday to break the shipping bottleneck through the Strait of Hormuz. The disagreement over nuclear inspections came as Iran’s president met with Pakistani mediators and technical teams from the U.S. and Iran continued talks in Switzerland. CAN’T SUE OVER LOCKS: The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs. The justices ruled yesterday [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
Group backs new sales tax BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Staff Writer
A group of San Carlos residents say a half-cent sales tax is needed to help maintain the city’s reputation as the “City of Good Living,” but others aren’t so sure. Council on Monday unanimously placed a new half-cent sales tax on
the November ballot. The decision is drawing mixed reactions from residents at council’s meeting on Monday. Some are concerned introducing a new tax will burden locals, while others are throwing their full support behind it, including a newly-formed coalition of business owners and residents.
If passed, the tax will generate approximately $6 million in additional annual revenue for San Carlos over the next 14 years. The new sales tax rate would be 9.87%.The money will be used to maintain city services, including keeping existing parks and community facilities safe, fixing pot[See TAX, page 18]
Opposition mounts to records bill advocates and public access concerns from her own Assembly colleagues, In March, Assemblywoman Blan- though, the Downey Democrat diluted ca Pacheco introduced a measure that her proposal to simply give governwould have made it more expensive for ments more time to respond to records Californians to obtain government re- requests, a change that allowed the measure to sail through the Assembly cords. Amid opposition from transparency in May. BY YUE STELLA YU
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