Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local Developers of the New Mission Theater, one of the most iconic buildings in the neighborhood, will seek permission from the city  to rehabilitate the dilapidated theater and construct more than 100 housing units next door. “This is far and away the most impactful project that the Mission has seen in […]

By Ian Hill, KQED News Fix As the Bay Citizen reported last week, a total of 1,733 complaints against taxi drivers were registered with San Francisco’s 311 complaint line last fiscal year. That represents a 13 percent increase in gripes over the previous fiscal year, and it’s nearly double the 900-complaint goal of the San […]

By Alejandro Rosas, Mission Local Last year, San Francisco International High School (SFI) competed for the first time in its first generation of girls’ wrestling with a team of three wrestlers. Now looking toward its second season with a team of five women wrestlers, the team looks to build a competitive and successful program under […]

By Katharine Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen The towers of Yellow Pages piling up on San Francisco doorsteps won’t be disappearing anytime soon. A 2011 San Francisco ordinance that created a three-year pilot program restricting the distribution of Yellow Pages directories has been shelved following a federal court decision striking down a similar ordinance in Seattle. Under […]

By KQED News Staff, KQED News Fix Some big changes are in store for California schools in 2013, with the most significant development perhaps coming in the way that schools suspend students. We asked KQED’s education reporter, Ana Tintocalis to clue us in on what’s new in education this year. Ana, break it down: Suspending […]

By Alison Hawkes, Bay Nature With New Year’s Eve just approaching, you may find yourself staring at the heavens and wondering what 2013 portends. If you’re lucky and put yourself in just the right spot at midnight, you may be able to see the second-brightest star in the sky that’s normally invisible to much of […]

By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local The killing of a beloved cook in October was the latest in what the Mexican consulate general in San Francisco says are targeted attacks against the city’s Mayan community. “This is something that we are very worried about,” said Carlos Isauro Felix-Diaz, the consul general. “For us, it’s fundamental to […]

By Sam Harnett, KQED News Fix When San Francisco Bay Area Television archivist Alex Cherian got a telephone call from ex-film editor Dave Peoples, he got excited. Peoples, who had worked at local station KRON-4, was offering outtakes, long stretches of B-roll that provided an intimate and unedited glimpse of historical events in the area. […]

By Amy Julia Harris, Bay Citizen The head of San Francisco’s juvenile probation department, troubled by a Mission District shooting between police and a former juvenile offender, is weighing whether to allow probation officers who deal with young criminals to begin carrying handguns. William Siffermann, San Francisco’s chief juvenile probation officer, is quietly attempting to […]

By Jamie Goldberg, Mission Local Roberto Alfaro Sr., 67, has lived in his Mission District apartment at 164 Lucky St. for 27 years. Ana Gutierrez, 66, has lived in the unit next door for 34 years. Both are retired, disabled and living on a fixed income. These are the only San Francisco apartments they have […]