San Francisco to vote on taxing rich businesses for homeless
(World News USA)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco has come to be known around the world as a place for aggressive panhandling, open-air drug use and sprawling tent camps, the dirt and despair all the more remarkable for the city`s immense wealth. Some streets are so filthy that officials launched a special `poop patrol,` and a young tech worker created `Snapcrap` - an app to report the filth. Morning commuters walk briskly past homeless people huddled against subway walls. In the city`s squalid downtown sector, the frail and sick shuffle along in wheelchairs or stumble around, sometimes half-clothed. The situation has become so dire that a coalition of activists collected enough signatures to put a measure...