The City is opening all these cool, newly-renovated recreation centers in San Francisco, but doesn’t have enough cool stuff to put inside them. The San Francisco Parks Trust says city budget cuts have kept the Recreation and Parks Department from filling five recreation centers serving tots to seniors with the right amount of facilities and equipment. The five centers are located at 1900 Geary Blvd, 280 Olympia Way, 50 Scott St., 236 Monterey Blvd., and at Foerster and Melrose Avenue. Read More

Everyone loves before and after pictures. Check out these posted by the Department of Public works, which recently resurfaced the pavement on a once crumbly section of Van Ness Avenue between Market to McAllister streets. The heavily-trafficked segment has been getting quite a sprucing lately. The projects include a bunch of new greenery, including a landscaped center median and sidewalk planters with blooming shrubs and trees, among other improvements, according to DPW.   Read More

The promised H1N1 vaccines have arrived in San Francisco – six weeks late, according to the San Francisco Department of Health. As of last week, The City had received 100,000 vaccine doses to combat the fast-spreading flu virus, said Eileen Shields, DPH spokeswoman. The City had expected a shipment in that amount in mid-October, and around 30,000 each week thereafter. Delays in production and distribution held them up, officials said. The federal government is providing the vaccines to states, which are tasked with distributing them to localities. Read More

Mayor Newsom was expected to be back in The City today following a three-day relationship-building adventure in Bangalore, India,  which is one of San Francisco’s sister cities. But there will be little rest after the long flight. The mayor will spend part of his day in meetings in City Hall, the Mayor’s Office said. Read More

Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to plan ahead for a possible 49ers departure from San Francisco, striking an agreement Tuesday with potential tenants of a proposed global warming study center that would replace the stadium at the shuttered Hunters Point Shipyard. Newsom has been visiting Bangalore, India, since Sunday as part of a sister city initiative that was struck last year. Read More

Mayor Gavin Newsom says his trip to Bangalore, India, has offered a “wake-up call” about public education in the United States. Newsom is visiting the San Francisco sister city through Wednesday, reportedly meeting with business leaders and government officials while there in order to strengthen ties. On Monday, the mayor signed seven memorandums of understanding agreements with Bangalore that are meant to establish tangible ways the cities can offer each other assistance and expertise, the Mayor’s Office said. Read More