Welcome to what promises to be the biggest, best and most expensive Super Bowl party ever.

And as good hosts, we intend to soak the corporate partyers descending on the city for every dime we can get.

Take hotels. The price of rooms in the city has tripled, and most hotels have a four-night minimum stay.

Then there are the restaurants. I’ve called a couple of our more noted eateries, and they say they’re booked solid for the week and are upping their prices accordingly.

The same thing is happening all across the city, from caterers to ride services.

Welcome to the big soak, and I don’t mean El Niño.

As a member in good standing of the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, I’d like to give my own analysis on how this “corporate party” is going to benefit the city.

When the price of a hotel room triples, so does the city’s take on the hotel tax and all the other taxes we add to the bill. And because you can’t get a room unless you pay for four days, we not only get the bigger tax take, we get it four times over.

It’s the same story at restaurants. The higher the take, the higher the tax.

Do we feel guilty about fleecing our fellow man?

Not a bit. Most of those inflated hotel and restaurant bills will be paid by corporations that are more than happy to throw money at us as they wine and dine their clients.

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but he’s done what other politicians only dream of doing: He told Fox News to stuff it.

For years, Republican officeholders and candidates have kissed the hand of Fox News in the hope of getting the network’s blessing.

And while Trump’s demand that Megyn Kelly be removed as a questioner at the GOP debate the other night was over the top, the reaction by Roger Ailes at Fox News ridiculing Trump was over the moon.

For anyone who had been in denial, it finally pulled the covers off that one-sided news operation.

The Board of Supervisors’ passage of a resolution calling for a day of remembrance for Mario Woods was a direct response to two missteps out of City Hall and police headquarters.

The first was Police Chief Greg Suhr’s out-of-the-gate statement that the officers who shot Woods were justified in doing so. “This is all they could do,” the chief said. “I really don’t know how much more you can make it plain to a wanted felon that he should drop the knife.”

The second is the silence that came out of the mayor’s office in the days immediately after the shooting.

Suhr may be right that the shooting was justified under the law, but his comment didn’t wash in light of the videos of the shooting that went viral.

As for Mayor Ed Lee, given the national outcry over the deaths of black men at the hands of police from Chicago to New York to Ferguson, Mo., he should have instantly called on U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to conduct a federal investigation to get an outside set of eyes on the case.

Lynch may or may not have agreed to do so, but the move would have taken away the megaphone from protesters on a key issue.

Instead, the mayor waited almost two months before he finally asked for the feds’ help last week. By then, it was overshadowed by the “which side are you on” fight between the Board of Supervisors and the Police Officers Association over a day of remembrance for Woods.

As for that one: The police shooting looks bad to most San Franciscans, and there’s a widespread feeling that legal or not, it wasn’t right. But Woods was also a convicted felon who police say had just stabbed a man — that doesn’t entitle him to canonization.

We had the final fundraiser the other night for the Tony Bennett statue that will go up outside the Fairmont Hotel. The man who left his heart in San Francisco was there front and center, as was his double from the Madame Tussauds wax museum.

Giants boss Larry Baer gave a great introduction and revealed that Tony will sing at the ballgame Aug. 19, the day the statue will be unveiled. He noted that Tony sang for World Series games in 2010, 2012 and 2014, and he’s looking forward to hearing him at the 2016 World Series as well.

The party turned out to be twofer. It was also the birthday of Tony’s mother-in-law. And here’s a piece of trivia: Tony’s father-in-law was one of the first Blue Angels.

As the man charged with assembling the ushers for Wilkes Bashford’s memorial service, I laid down a strict dress code: “You have to wear black shoes, and I want them polished. I want a white shirt, a dark tie and a dark suit. And no sneakers.”

Three of the candidates didn’t have dark suits, so they went to Wilkes’ store to buy them.

On Friday, almost 1,000 people showed up for Wilkes’ service. Grace Cathedral rocked.

All in all, it was a fitting goodbye to the most decent person I ever met.

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