By Laird Harrison, KQED News Fix First the good news: The Bay Area has plans in place for a storm as big and bad as Sandy. Now the bad news: Planning is about as far as it goes. We haven’t built new levees or seawalls, moved electrical equipment higher up, or relocated much of anything out […]
Author Archives: Michele Anderson
Michele Anderson is an East Coast transplant (Yale, BA, English) who has lived in the Bay Area since, roughly, Gov. Jerry Brown’s first stint as California’s governor. She is a happily retired lawyer (UC Berkeley, JD) and an inveterate news hack (spent many years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she migrated from Food to News). She has been with the San Francisco Public Press as the Partnerships guru since 2011.
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Treasure Island Sites Called Safe From Radiation
By Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith, Bay Citizen State health officials have declared day care and youth centers, ballfields, some residential backyards and other sites on Treasure Island safe from radiation in response to fears about the area’s nuclear past. The surveys taken from 24 publically accessible locations were not part of the Navy’s scheduled […]
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Clipper Cards Reveal Travelers’ Whereabouts to Cops, Lawyers, Apps
By Zusha Elinson, Bay Citizen San Francisco police arrested Marcel Largaespada on April 30 after a gunpoint robbery at a Lombard Street business, but they couldn’t catch his alleged accomplice, Alan McCahill. McCahill gave officers the slip, investigators believed, by hopping on a Muni bus. He was caught days later. To try to place McCahill […]
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Juvenile Detainees Can Get Time Outdoors But Most Like Staying Inside
By Trey Bundy, Bay Citizen Boys and girls confined in San Francisco’s juvenile hall might rather be elsewhere, but most aren’t in a hurry to go outside. That is according to an anonymous survey of detainees at the city’s Juvenile Justice Center, where almost two-thirds of the young offenders said they don’t like outdoor recreation. […]
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S.F.’s Most Dangerous Intersection Was Paved With Good Intentions
By Zusha Elinson, Bay Citizen Hayes Valley was best known for the hooker haven beneath the Central Freeway when Greg Foss moved to the San Francisco neighborhood in 1982. The area was transformed when the city tore down the 1.2-mile double-deck structure and replaced it with Octavia Boulevard, a ground-level thoroughfare with tree-lined medians, a […]
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Rising Sea Levels Bring Hard Choices to California Coastal Communities
While we must stop adding greenhouse gases to the global atmosphere, conservation and green technologies can no longer completely halt the impact of climate change on people, wildlife, and the lands and waters we depend on. Adapting to climate change is also necessary. This story is about creative solutions to deal with sea level rise […]
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S.F. Police Listed Arrested Asians as ‘Chinese’
By Shoshana Walter, Bay Citizen The San Francisco Police Department, relying on antiquated computer technology, routinely recorded nearly all Asians who were arrested in the city as “Chinese” until this month, department officials said. Arrest data that included the “Chinese” numbers was released to the public and sent to law enforcement agencies for at least […]
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Leapin’ lizards — it’s Leap Year again
Storifying has come to SF Public Press. From time to time, we will be gleaning the best from social media to amplify our coverage. This is our first storification: our take on 2012, a Leap Year. We hear from the academics, the artists, the cognescenti on the Mayan apocalypse — as well as many people in the universe of social media who have expressed an opinion on this unique component of the Gregorian calendar.