Author Archives: San Francisco Public Press

Muni monthly Fast Passes for adults, youth, seniors and disabled will go up beginning July 1. Each pass will increase by $2. Prices on the passes will now range from $74 to $22 depending on the type. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency approved its two-year budget in April, which included the increases to the […]

Drivers who think they will not get caught driving in a transit-only lanes in San Francisco might want to avoid driving or parking in front of a Muni bus. The city’s Municipal Transportation Agency reports that its agents wrote 3,052 citations in 2011 to drivers who travelled in dedicated bus lanes in the Financial District […]

  The San Francisco Public Press has won an award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Last month, the group recognized our reporters and editors with a national Prevention for a Safer Society award for their articles on experiments in San Francisco with “restorative justice,” an alternative method for dealing with youth misbehavior in schools.  The […]

Tom Guffey, director of design, has a key role in conceptualizing the layout of the Public Press print editions. Here’s his perspective on the creative process. What do you enjoy most about designing the print edition? What I love about designing the newspaper is that it is catered to a more patient and deliberative reader. […]

Muni officials are looking for riders to try out their new free application for the iPhone and Android devices, called Muni+. Launched on Tuesday, the app connects Muni riders to alerts about delays on the system. They can also check their Clipper Card balance, connect to NextMuni for arrival times and access to a map […]

Step into the Public Press newsroom where reporters and editors are preparing to publish Issue No. 7 — coming next month. Michael Stoll, executive director, explains the thinking behind the 16-page, ad-free, broadsheet. What is distinct about the print edition? The Public Press is, as far as we know, the largest circulation nonprofit newspaper in […]

Last week’s edition of “Dan Rather Reports” featured a revelatory 13-minute report on the San Francisco Public Press and a handful of other nonprofit journalism startups around the country whose nonprofit status has been held up at the Internal Revenue Service for months. The segment, “Taxing News,” (April 10 edition, “The Queen of Green” — download […]

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 […]

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 […]

Homeless people in San Francisco, much more than the other city residents, find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time, getting ticketed or arrested for any of more than 20 minor offenses. The city’s chronic low-level harassment of people living on the streets and in shelters amounts to a mass violation of civil […]