Cleaning up the Entertainment Commission
is harder than you’d think

By Lois Beckett 

SF WEEKLY BLOGS (March 19, 2010) – The nightclub wars in San Francisco are more than a decade old, and the last police-nightclubs-neighbors battle as heated as this one resulted in a shift of permitting powers from the police to the Entertainment Commission. But that hasn't been much of a solution. 

If Jim Meko's right, people interested in better nightlife regulation need to look at the root of the issue -- the police code governing problem clubs, and the budget for the costly revocation hearings -- rather than pushing the Entertainment Commission aside to reinvent the wheel again. 
 
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Jim’s roots in D6 run deep

For more than 30 years, Jim Meko has lived and worked in South of Market. Jim’s car-free commute consists of a short walk downstairs to the small commercial printing business he and his partner Roy started in 1981.

Jim was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota into a working class family and to this day considers himself a proud “Minnesota liberal.” 

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