By Alana Levinson, Mission Local On a sleepy Monday afternoon, Bolerium Books owner John Durham receives a call from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, informing him that his store has made it into the annual “Best of the Bay” issue for the second time. While giving him the good news, they gently try to sell […]
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Issue 9: Winter 2013
Thousands of homes in San Francisco are more vulnerable to earthquakes because of delays in mandatory retrofitting. Before this report was published, many landlords and tenants did not know their homes were among those needing upgrades.
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Treasure Island Development Plans Inching Forward
By Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen After a decade of delays, San Francisco is taking concrete steps toward turning the former sandbar known as Treasure Island into a $1.5 billion condominium community. However, obstacles remain for the project, a top priority for three of the city’s mayors. Barriers include political uncertainty about a […]
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Tech Company CrowdFlower Denies Labor Violation
By Erik Neumann, Mission Local CrowdFlower, a tech company based in the Mission District, boasts on its website of having “The World’s Largest Workforce,” performing hundreds of millions of tasks for Web-based client companies. Now, one of those virtual workers has filed a lawsuit in federal court charging that CrowdFlower broke the law by paying […]
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Agency Targeting Community Colleges Is Under Federal Pressure
By Louis Freedberg, EdSource Today via New America Media The commission that accredits California’s community colleges, and has ordered City College of San Francisco to prepare for possible closure, has come under pressure from the federal government to make sure that the colleges under its jurisdiction comply in a timely way with the deficiencies it […]
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SFO to Return $2.1 Million in Misspent Funds
By Zusha Elinson, Bay Citizen The Federal Aviation Administration will take back $2.1 million in stimulus funds that it gave to San Francisco International Airport because the money was used improperly, according to the Department of Transportation’s inspector general. The airport received $14.5 million in stimulus funds to improve runways and taxiways, which was completed […]
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U.S. Supreme Court and Proposition 8: End of the Road or Next Chapter?
By Scott Shafer, KQED News Fix The next and final chapter in the legal saga of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, is set to begin Friday morning at the U.S. Supreme Court. And unlike the previous legal skirmishes in which this measure has been mired for four years, this one will take place […]
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Climate Change in Coastal Communities: Riding the Tide
San Francisco Bay is the largest estuary on the Pacific coast of the Americas, and it is a place of great biological diversity. We journey underneath its surface to swim with the harbor seals; we look overhead at a million migratory birds; and we explore marshlands along its shores. This story is part of a media […]
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Signs of the Season: From Crab Pot to Stovetop, Dungeness Crabs Arrive
By Jackson Karlenzig, Bay Nature Thanksgiving time marks the start of one of the most exciting sustainable, local food events of the year: Dungeness crab season. This year’s crabbing is expected to be lower than average, due to natural cycles in the crab population. But that hasn’t stopped fishermen like Don Murch of Bolinas from […]
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Algae Fuel Comes to the Bay Area, but How Ecological Is It?
By Laird Harrison, KQED News Fix To the list of things that started in the Bay Area (blue jeans, sourdough French bread, fortune cookies), you can now add automobile fuel made by algae. Last week, four service stations in Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley and Redwood City became the first in the world to pump the […]