Author Archives: San Francisco Public Press

The San Francisco Public Press reported recently about the difficulties schools are having teaching students science and how local biotechnology companies are trying to help schools. The companies want to help students understand science and they also want to promote science as a career option.   The University of California, San Francisco is one of […]

Operators of buses and trains would see a three-year pay freeze but more support for their children’s health care, under a tentative agreement between Muni and the union’s president. The union said Friday in a memo that it was working to iron out the details of a contract with the management of the San Francisco […]

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the Transport Workers Union Local 200, which represents 200 transit supervisors, reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday that the agency says will freeze salaries over the next three years, fix health benefit costs and restore certain management rights. Rich Peterson, a spokesman for the transit agency, said the […]

  UPDATE 5/23/11: We changed the story to note that the “street count” of 6,455 people includes both sheltered and unsheltered people. The actual count of people living on the street on the night of the count (those unsheltered) rose from 2,709 two years ago to 3,106 this year. That’s almost a 13 percent increase of […]

Graffitied vehicles are no strangers to Muni’s passengers, who may even have developed a fondness for the bright-painted vehicles over the years. The agency itself, however, is fed up. The city transit agency said at Tuesday’s board of directors meeting that over 1,100 graffiti incidents are occurring on its buses and light-rail vehicles, as well […]

Dehydration is one of the primary causes of preventable hospitalizations in the U.S. A Bay Area biotech company is working to solve the problem with a relatively low-tech approach.   In California alone, more than 16,000 preventable hospitalizations were caused by dehydration in 2008. Infants and the elderly are particularly vulnerable. Promptly diagnosed, dehydration is […]

Transport Workers Union 250-A, which represents Muni drivers, has voted to approve a strike authorization, a spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said. The vote allows union leaders to call a strike if labor negoiations with the city reach an impasse. Charlie Goodyear, who is the spokesman during the labor negotiations for Muni, […]

A payroll tax exemption for Twitter that was preliminarily approved Tuesday night by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on a 8 – 3 vote has unleashed a flurry of public debate, media commentary and even a pair of dueling petitions over the revitalization of mid-Market Street in San Francisco. Touted as a way to keep […]