If you walk down the sidewalk swinging a 6-foot (or longer) chain over your head, the San Francisco police will arrive to put a stop to that threateningly anti-social behavior. But if instead of swinging a chain, you clip a dog to one end of the chain and clear a 6-foot swath of sidewalk out of your way, the behavior is not generally thought to be anti-social. Indeed, anyone who dares to suggest that dog owners rein in their pet is sneeringly dismissed as “anti-dog.” Read More

Mayor Ed Lee was shocked by two brief power outages during this month’s televised Monday night 49ers game. He called it a “national embarrassment,” demanded an investigation and promised to make sure it “doesn’t happen again.” I have lived on Treasure Island since 1999. Recently we had six power outages in 30 days. One lasted six hours, another nine hours and two outages on Thanksgiving totaled 10 hours. There are 2,500 people living here, one-third low income and many disabled. Read More

Many dog owners are inconsiderate. Most apartments and houses in this city have yards, yet these people take their dog to leave their droppings on other people’s property. I always tell the dog owners my flowers are not for their dogs to urinate on. These inconsiderate people always get mad at me. Then they come back and we argue again. They think just because they have a dog we should all love dogs. Read More

PG&E is in the national news again, this time for two power outages during the televised Monday 49ers game. PG&E says it can be blamed for only one of the outages and the cause is unknown, although there are pictures of a transformer on the Candlestick property blowing up. Read More