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Here's how to get around The City during the San Francisco Marathon
Over 30,000 runners will descend on The City this weekend for the 47th San Francisco Marathon, culminating with 13.1- and 26.2-mile races Sunday morning that transportation officials said will lead to numerous street closures and public-transit reroutes. “This will be a large citywide running event,” a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson said. “Traffic around the city will be affected as soon as the race begins.” Here’s what you need...
SF Fire Chief Nicholson to step down due to 'medical issues'
San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson will retire at the end of August due to “unforeseen medical issues,” the department announced Friday morning. “I am proud of the San Francisco Fire Department and the people that work day and night to protect our City and citizens,” Nicholson said in a prepared statement. “It has been a great privilege and honor to serve as your Fire Chief for the past five years.” ...
Harris touts Bay Area public-school roots on, beyond campaign trail
Vice President Kamala Harris has many mentors and contemporaries who have influenced her long political career, but she has said repeatedly that one Bay Area public-school educator stands alone. When Harris — now poised to be the Democratic presidential nominee — delivered a speech Thursday in Houston at the convention of the American Federation of Teachers, she paid tribute to someone she has repeatedly said was the most influential on her journey — Frances Wilson, her first-grade teacher at Thousand Oaks Elementary in Berkeley. ...
Meet the Bay Area athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics
As the 2024 Olympic Games get under way in Paris on Friday, San Francisco and Bay Area residents will have plenty of representation. Among the 600 athletes representing the United States this summer are four from The City and dozens more with ties to the broader region. Here’s a look at the San Francisco athletes competing for Team USA: Kristen Faulkner — cycling ...
Farrell’s fuzzy finance filings foment furor
New campaign financing filings from San Francisco mayoral candidate Mark Farrell show he continues to take steps that his critics say allow him to effectively circumvent contribution limits — even after one of his committees had to scramble to fix what it called “an accounting error.” The committee Farrell set up to promote a pair of ballot measures disclosed Monday it has continued sharing tens of thousands of dollars of expenses with his mayoral campaign. The filings indicated that 91% of the expenditures made by...
Breed earns lone SF Democratic Party mayoral endorsement
It’s Mayor London Breed — and nobody else — for San Francisco Democrats. The San Francisco Democratic Party on Wednesday night voted overwhelmingly to endorse Breed’s reelection bid. Because of The City’s ranked-choice voting system, members could have endorsed other candidates in the crowded race — but they opted not to. At a campaign rally Thursday, Breed said she was "humbled and honored" by the endorsement and saw it as...
Kamala Harris’ presidential run is exciting and energizing SF Democrats
Kamala Harris’ ascension to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket has energized local Democrats and spurred many to do what they can to get voters in crucial battleground states to turn out and vote for the Bay Area native. Fearful of a second Trump presidency and thrilled that Harris this week replaced President Joe Biden as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, San Francisco party members urged one another this week to reach out to voters outside The City, whether through phone banking, text messages or...
'Unconscionable': HIV community in legal fight with Bay Area drugmaker
Hank Trout was diagnosed with HIV in 1989 at the age of 36. The longtime San Francisco resident resisted medication at first, but eventually began the fraught medication journey with which those living with the condition are familiar — a drug “cocktail” involving a strict regimen of several medications a day. After trying several such combinations of drugs to keep his HIV levels in check, he eventually started taking just...
New housing laws may threaten some of SF's most iconic buildings
Old city directories, fire insurance maps first published in 1915, newspaper clippings spanning decades of San Francisco history — this collection of yellowing, brittle documents spread out atop a stately wooden table tells the century-spanning story of the brick-walled building that has housed the Old Ship Saloon, a venerable local landmark in The City’s Financial District. These days, the Old Ship is a neighborhood restaurant and bar nestled at the corner of Battery Street and Pacific Avenue, but it traces its roots all the way...
World-class SF fencer went from office olympics to Summer Olympics
Around this time last year, Alexander Massialas was working as an intern at MHC Engineers, a mechanical-engineering firm headquartered in an unremarkable three-story SOMA office building near Civic Center. Massialas’ work days were usually filled with putting together engineering analyses, staff lunches, helping his coworkers solve puzzles — and, after work, joining them for happy hour. His plans are a little different this summer. ...
Artists imagine new future for vital site of LGBTQ+ history
To the average passerby, the building at the northwest corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin might blend into the background with the rest of the neighborhood. But for those in the know, it was the site of an important event in the history of the City’s queer community. In 1966, in what was then Compton’s Cafeteria on its first floor, a riot took place. Members of The...
Here's who's on the bill for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year
Three-time Grammy Award winner Bobby Rush, bluegrass icon Alice Gerrard and a supergroup featuring R.E.M’s Mike Mills and Wilco’s Pat Sansone will be among the offerings at this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival. Organizers on Wednesday announced the first portion of the lineup for the 24th edition of the festival, which will be held Oct. 4-6 in Golden Gate Park. Those stars will be joined on the bill by...
UCSF: Electric bike, scooter accidents are soaring across the U.S.
In recent years, e-bikes and electric scooters have surged in popularity. So too, it turns out, have accidents involving such so-called micromobility vehicles. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of injuries involving e-bikes nationwide skyrocketed more than 3,000%, according to a new UCSF study published Tuesday. The number of e-scooter injuries jumped more than 560% over the same time period, according to the study, which was based on data from...
Mark Farrell: Breed is attempting to balance the budget on retirees' backs
During my time on the Board of Supervisors, before I served as interim mayor in 2018, I served on the San Francisco Health Service System board. The San Francisco Health Service System is a relatively obscure body inside City Hall. It’s charged with selecting and managing the health-care plans available to city employees and retirees, along with their dependents. Among those are 17,500 people who are subscribed to a Medicare advantage plan. ...
SF supervisors push proposal to persuade police to to delay retirement
San Francisco Supervisors went to great lengths Tuesday to ensure a controversial public-safety measure reaches the November ballot. The board voted 8-3 to advance a charter amendment that, if approved by voters, would offer financial incentives for older police officers to delay retirement. But it did so only after holding back-to-back special meetings to beat a deadline to get the measure on the ballot. Those moves came after Supervisor Hillary...
Peskin-backed low-income housing fund headed to November ballot
For many of San Francisco’s poorest residents, even the deeply discounted rentals offered by the City’s affordable housing properties remain prohibitively expensive. In November, city voters will get a chance to help them out. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to advance a plan to create an “affordable housing opportunity fund” to the November ballot. Under the proposal, The City would set aside millions of dollars each year to...
Affordable housing project in Mission breaks ground, backed by $50M fund
An affordable-housing development will soon stand on the site of a former Sears parking lot in the Mission district, thanks to a new public-private partnership aimed at expediting the Bay Area’s construction of affordable housing. City officials and development partners gathered on Tuesday for the groundbreaking of 1633 Valencia St., a 145-unit project that will offer five floors of studio apartments for seniors experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The Valencia Street project is the first to be funded through the Bay Area Housing Innovation...
Herbal remedy eyed to help stem alcoholism in SF's AIDS community
A common Asian plant could offer hope to San Francisco residents struggling with alcohol-use disorder, particularly those who are also battling HIV or AIDS. The plant — kudzu — has long been used in Asian cultures as a traditional remedy for alcoholism. A new study underway at UCSF is looking at whether it might help reduce alcohol intake and alcohol-related sexual behavior among people at risk of HIV infection. Previous...
Is ChatGPT BS-ing you?
For all their amazing abilities to do things like writing Paddington Bear short stories on the fly and offering recipes that look like they were written by William Shakespeare, generative artificial-intelligence systems like ChatGPT have a big shortcoming. They can’t always be trusted. Such systems sometimes offer patently false or misleading information and present it as fact. In some cases, they respond to prompts with bizarre suggestions that seem to...
SF art stays true to roots, setting scene apart
San Francisco is an often inhospitable city for visual artists to live and work. It’s also birthed major artistic movements and The City is still home to artists whose work reflects their choice to stay. But what sets it apart from the nation’s major art hubs, such as New York and Los Angeles? It is decidedly not a major hub of the art market. In the 1930s, San Francisco was...
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