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CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee Friday gave his annual State of the City address and laid out a plan to create 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes in the city by 2020, promising that a third of those would be affordable to low- and …San Francisco mayor to unveil housing […]
NBC Bay AreaIn advance of a joint hearing Thursday by San Francisco politicians and police on pedestrian safety, Mayor Ed Lee has released plans for increased enforcement, training and a citywide public awareness campaign on the issue. The hearing, being held by …Latest Pedestrian Hit by Car Bodes Ill for San Francisco PedestriansLegal Examiner all […]
San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is calling for an end to Sunday metered parking in the city. “I’ve always felt uncomfortable with it, but Muni was suffering and we needed the money,” Lee said Tuesday. “Now, I think we have come up with a better way to … …read more Source: San Francisco […]
CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Either San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee or Seattle Mayor Edward Murray will be shipping local food delicacies to the other after Sunday’s NFC Championship game between the 49ers and Seahawks. The traditional mayoral bet …Mayor Lee makes bet on 49ers-Seahawks gameKGO-TV all 25 news articles …read more Source: NFL […]
“Batkid” is Miles Scott, just five-years-old and fighting a winning battle against leukemia. But all Miles really wanted to do in life was be Batman and save people in San Francisco. So, in making Miles’ dream come true, the Make-A-Wish Foundation proved that there really are far more good people around than bad – all […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3gawKkJJYI The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Tower Groundbreaking Ceremony went off without a hitch, as the 27-minute video shows. The audience of friends, media, and staffers were treated to speeches by Transbay Transit Center Joint Powers Authority Executive Director Maria Ayerdi Kaplan, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco District Six Supervisor Jane Kim, and […]
According to a study by HR&A Advisors, Airbnb, which bills itself as the “world’s leading marketplace for booking, discovering, and listing unique spaces around the world,” provides a major economic boost both to its users and the neighborhoods and cities where they visit and live. The study found that people who rent their homes on […]
WonderCon, the large comic book convention that started in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been in Oakland at the Oakland Convention Center since 1987 to 2002, then at the Moscone Center to 2011. In 2012 WonderCon was forced to seek a temporary home due to expansion-related construction at Moscone Center. Anaheim came forward […]
Catching up on San Francisco news. The San Francisco Giants capped a glorious World Championship season with another giant parade down Market Street Wednesday. This one, which culminated with a large ceremony in front of San Francisco City Hall, wasn’t larger than the 2010 version that drew over a million people (largely due to the […]
Can technology make a better San Francisco? Well-known tech leaders who live in San Francisco (last time I checked) think so. To so this, they’ve come together with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to form SFCITI. SFCITI is described as “Leveraging the collective power of the tech sector as a force for civic action in […]
Let’s get this out of the way: the Obama Victory Fund Party held at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium was a hell of a lot of fun. This blogger was blessed with the opportunity to attend, and not as a press person, but as one who raised $5,500 for President Obama, and entirely via social media: […]
San Francisco Supervisor Christina Olague will meet with Zazzle Bay to Breakers boss Angela Fang, neighborhood leaders, and veteran race supporters to kick off the 101st Zazzle Bay to Breakers, announce the continued enforcement of last year’s rules and to discuss the Bay to Breakers’ future. This time the political event will take place at […]
America’s Cup San Francisco fever starts! The first blush of San Francisco’s excitement for the 2013 America’s Cup was made evident today as hundreds of fans and dignitaries joined in celebrating the ceremonial signing of the agreement for the City to host the America’s Cup in 2013, complete with popping champagne corks, the America’s Cup […]
This years TechCrunch award program called “The Crunchies” was so vastly different from all of the others, it took me a full week, plus, to figure out what I was going to say. The nature of blogging is to state your unvarnished view, so here goes: The Crunchies made me sad. Yep: sad. Sad because […]
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will join the U.S. Department of Health Services Assistant Secretary For Heath and Human Services Dr. Howard Koh today for a press conference to talk about a comprehensive national plan to address the viral hepatitis epidemic this space has blogged about before. Mayor Lee and Dr. Koh will also explain […]