Business, Economy, Government

SAN FRANCISCO TO BUILD RENT-FREE, 13-STORY BUILDING ON FORMER MCDONALD’S SITE

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From McDonald's to a 13-story complex
From McDonald’s to a 13-story complex

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® )  – The City and County of San Francisco is trying its best to rid itself of the reputation of being one of the places in the U.S. with the most expensive rent, what with the monthly apartment rent averaging in excess of $4,000.

As more and more high-rise condominiums are springing up everywhere in the city, Mayor Ed Lee and the County Board of Supervisors announced the building of a new, 13-story complex at the former location of McDonald’s on 600 Van Ness Avenue (@Golden Gate) which recently closed its doors after more than three decades of operation.

Lee said that this is just the beginning of a 10-year strategic development plan to ease the critical housing shortage and sky-rocketing rents in the city.

Unlike other government housing projects,  the proposed high-rise will be rent-free for those who qualify.

Among other criteria, future residents of the new building will have to be convicted of a crime committed in San Francisco.

The multi-million high-rise project is a county jail.

Entertainment, Music

(VIDEO) ALL ACROSS AMERICA, PEOPLE ARE DOING THE CHICKEN DANCE, THANKS TO BEYONCE

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LOS ANGELES, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) – Move over Macarena. Psy, it’s time to retire your horsey dance.

All across America, people are doing the chicken dance: men, women, children, senior citizens, gay, straight — in the streets of San Francisco to the dance clubs in Miami. The dance which until recently could only be seen at wedding receptions in Indiana — has caught on quickly and rapidly, thanks to Beyonce.

Time to flap those shoulders and do the chicken dance.  It’s the next craze that puts Zumba to shame!

Politics

BREAKING: VP BINAY WITHDRAWS FROM PHILIPPINES’ PRESIDENTIAL RACE

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Poe, left, and Binay
Poe, left, and Binay

MAKATI CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles®) – In a move that shocked both his critics and supporters, Vice President Jejomar Binay today announced that he was withdrawing from the 2016 Philippine presidential race.

Until recently, Binay was the only declared candidate to succeed President NoyNoy Aquino whose six-year-term expires in 2016. The vice president had consistently held the lead in all polls among all likely presidential candidates. Until this week.

The most recent polls now show that Senator Grace Poe has overtaken Binay’s lead.

Embarrassed that a woman and neophyte in politics has displaced him from the lead, Binay said that he is no longer interested in becoming president.  Instead, he announced that he would be seeking reelection as mayor of Makati City when the current term of his son, JunJun, expires.

“It would be a great honor on my part to once again become the chief executive of the richest city in the country. I know I can easily win a reelection because my family has practically established itself as the unbeatable political dynasty in Makati.”

The vice president is a former mayor of Makati and so was his wife, Elenita.

Critics, however, are speculating that once he becomes mayor again, he will secede from the Philippines and declare Makati as an independent Republic.

Talk about not just ‘wall street ‘ but ‘walled country.’

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