Celebration of Ted Gullicksen on Sunday
Friends of longtime San Francisco tenants advocate Ted Gullicksen will gather Sunday to say goodbye to the activist and progressive leader, a month after his unexpected death. The memorial service will...
View ArticleWiener wants city to take back street trees, fund their maintenance
Supervisor Scott Wiener is out to fix San Francisco’s street tree program — with cold, hard cash. The District 8 supervisor will announce Monday that he is asking the city attorney to draft legislation...
View ArticleMaking Muni Metro cars last — more maintenance, better training
The first of the new Metro light-rail cars manufactured by Siemens will begin arriving at the end of 2016, but it will years for most of the new-and-improved cars to arrive. Until then, Muni and its...
View ArticleMore power! SF moves closer to expanding PUC’s energy customer base
San Francisco is on the cusp of getting even deeper into the energy business. Legislation to give the city’s Public Utilities Commission a right of first refusal on providing power to nearly all new...
View ArticleSan Francisco, Sonoma recognized by White House for climate action
The city of San Francisco has been named one of the White House’s 16 “Climate Action Champions” for its ambitious goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and increasing sustainability efforts, along...
View ArticleRon Conway blasts Sen. Feinstein’s torture report
Tech investor Ron Conway, a multi-millionaire and avid backer of Mayor Ed Lee, has an opinion on just about everything – from who should represent the east side of San Francisco in the state Assembly...
View ArticleAre San Francisco’s public schools creating a future akin to Detroit?
It’s not easy to blast San Francisco’s public schools and Detroit in one breath, but Michael Lombardo managed to do it. The CEO of Reading Partners, which sends volunteers into public schools to...
View ArticleKim rolls out legislation to monitor affordable, market-rate housing balance
San Francisco will monitor how much new housing development will be market rate and how much is in reach of low-income residents — and aim to make one-third of new construction affordable — under...
View ArticleA place to go — Tenderloin toilets for the homeless get funding through June
San Francisco may finally be making a dent in its sidewalk poop problem. Buoyed by what Supervisor Jane Kim called “outstanding” results, the city’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to...
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