By Jamie Goldberg, Mission Local The Mission Housing Development Corporation has helped low-income Mission District residents find affordable housing for more than 40 years. But when the San Francisco supervisorial districts were redrawn 10 years ago, the nonprofit organization’s office at 16th and Valencia streets was outside of the Mission’s boundaries. “It’s like they cut […]
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S.F. school ignites online free speech battle
By Corey G. Johnson, California Watch Civil rights groups recently intervened in a free-speech controversy at the San Francisco Unified School District after a school suspended three high school seniors and banned them from graduation and prom over comments they made online. The students were suspended from George Washington High School after a teacher learned […]
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Pedestrian deaths put spotlight on bicyclist safety issues
San Francisco prosecutors are deciding whether to file charges against a cyclist who recently struck a pedestrian in a fatal collision in the Castro. This comes on top of last month’s guilty plea to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter by a 23-year-old bicyclist who struck and killed a woman at Mission and Embarcadero in San Francisco last […]
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Muni brings back first streetcar from 1912
Mayor Ed Lee, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and city officials joined to celebrate Muni’s centennial year by re-introducing the transit system’s first streetcar from 1912. Muni turns 100 on Dec. 28.
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Mission businesses hit with ‘drive-by’ disability lawsuits
By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local The owners of Elsy’s Restaurant on Mission Street have faced their share of roadblocks to operate in San Francisco. For reasons that are still unclear, the San Francisco Planning Department delayed Elsy’s opening for eight months in 2006. In 2008, a corrupt restaurant inspector asked the owners for money in […]
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San Francisco pitched as beacon of ‘collaborative consumption’
San Francisco’s current crop of leaders ran for office on a platform of deploying city resources to encourage private-sector job growth — which in this famously liberal city is seen as about as conservative as an elected official can get. But last week a task force convened by Mayor Ed Lee and four members of the Board of Supervisors opened an opportunity to expand the meaning of the pro-business moniker to a new crop of startup, do-gooder social enterprises that enable small-scale, peer-to-peer economic activity and resource sharing.
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Free bus rides for youth still an option, but plan lacks funding
Muni still hasn’t decided whether it can afford to let young people in San Francisco ride buses and streetcars for free. But a decision could come within the next two weeks. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s board of directors delayed a vote to approve a two-year budget on Tuesday, because members could not determine […]
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S.F. transit agency jettisons plans to install smart meters in Mission
By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will not include the Mission and other eastern neighborhoods in its SFpark pilot program as originally planned, according to an announcement. SFpark, funded through a federal grant, uses demand-responsive pricing to free up parking spaces. In December, the agency had proposed installing some 5,000 […]
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Occupy SF demonstrators take over empty building
A group of Occupy SF demonstrators took over a vacant building owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco at 888 Turk St. in San Francisco on Sunday after a rally and march in Union Square. Police began making arrests on Monday afternoon. KQED News is following the story via Storify.
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Muni still chasing 85 percent on-time performance goal
Muni’s on-time performance showed little improvement during the last three months of 2011. According to the latest numbers from the transit agency, Muni was on-time 71.7 percent of the time, up from 71.1 percent from the previous quarter. The city mandates that Muni hit an 85 percent goal, which was approved by voters in 1999 […]