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<p>Led by Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week once again showed why the city is considered to be unfriendly to business.</p> <p>By enacting legislation to ban chain stores in Hayes Valley and restricting their expansion in other neighborhoods in the City, the board was responsible for San Francisco's ranking near the bottom of Inc. magazine's 2004 list of the big cities in the United States with the best climate for businesses.</p>

<p>A group of South Bay residents who oppose war with Iraq is hopeful that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will pass a resolution today declaring its opposition to a unilateral or first strike war.</p> <p>In recent weeks, a group called Cities For Peace has urged local municipalities to pass anti-war resolutions. Nearly 60 cities, from Santa Cruz to Chicago to Baltimore, have done so, and campaigns in other cities are under way.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) --  County supervisors voted to close 11 of 18 public health clinics and eliminate 5,000 jobs in what could become the largest cuts ever made to Los Angeles County's health care system.</p> <p>Wednesday's vote came a week after county Health Director Dr. Thomas Garthwaite recommended shuttering the health clinics to help the county pull itself out of a $800 million deficit.</p>