Sacramento native Scott Pruett returns to Northern California and one of his favorite racetracks next week when he defends his Rolex Series championship in the U.S. Sports Car Invitational at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas.The three-day event begins with qualifying and practice May 4 and May 5 and races the next two days.
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It took 11 innings and nearly four hours of hard-fought baseball, but Lowell was able to eke out a 6-5 come-from-behind victory over Academic Athletic Association rival Lincoln, with the sun still barely hanging in the sky Thursday at West Sunset.After going hitless in his first five at-bats, sophomore Max Newman pushed a line-drive single into right field to drive home leadoff man Jack Lazarus and break a 5-5 deadlock in the top of the 11th inning. Trailing 5-0 as late as the fourth inning, the 6-5 lead was the first for the Cardinals in the game — and the only one they needed.
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Terry Hird thinks most people don’t see the forest through the trees when they approach a business negotiation. "Businesspeople tend to focus on signing the contract," he said. "We’ve learned that there are deals that look good on paper but don’t come to fruition because people focus more on tactics and beating the other side as opposed to creating interest and value." Hird is the founder of Negotiation International, a San Francisco training and consulting company that teaches businesspeople to approach negotiations in the most efficient and effective manner.
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Each summer for more than five decades, the North Beach Festival has drawn large throngs of celebrants enjoying the neighborhood’s attractions, atmosphere and cultural significance. But a recent decision to ban alcohol at Washington Square Park, a centerpiece of the free event, is causing concern among event organizers and some business owners — and raising the specter of payback politics.
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More than 20 tenants filed a lawsuit against one of The City’s largest apartment management companies Thursday, accusing it of using threats and intimidation — including employing armed men — to get tenants paying low rents to leave its buildings.The "mass action" lawsuit filed inSan Francisco Superior Court accuses Citi Apartments, LLC, of making the threats a systematic business practice at many of the more than 100 buildings it owns around San Francisco.
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The Lowell baseball team didn’t waste any time lighting up the scoreboard against Academic Athletic Association rival Lincoln on Wednesday afternoon at Big Rec, striking early and holding on for an 8-5 victory.Six of the first seven Cardinals (13-7-1, 8-1) reached base, translating into a four-run first inning. While the Mustangs (11-4, 9-2) were able to erase the early deficit, Lowell took the lead for good on Javier Padilla’s fifth-inning single, which scored junior Elan Lavie.
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A small grease fire at AT&T Park on Wednesday forced a partial evacuation but did not affect preparations for the Giants-Mets afternoon game, officials said.The fire broke out at about 9:20 a.m. in the Acme Chophouse restaurant in AT&T Park. A dispatcher said it was initially reported as a cloud of smoke from the third floor, and that a single alarm response declared it under control at 9:53 a.m.
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A controversial measure aimed at stemming a wave of evictions related to real estate speculation passed the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee on Wednesday.The approval sets up a showdown between renters and property owners.Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s legislation would restrict condo-conversions in buildings where there have been evictions in multiple units or the elderly, seriously ill or handicapped have been displaced. The legislation applies to evictionsafter January 1999.
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Just days before a critical endorsement by the state Democratic Party, an allegedly phony document has surfaced linking a Democratic Assembly candidate to the Republican, anti-abortion governor of South Dakota.The revelation has thrown into chaos what was a fairly quiet race for the Democratic nomination in the 12th Assembly District between Supervisor Fiona Ma and Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District board member Janet Reilly. The candidates are vying to replace Assemblyman Leland Yee.
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East Palo Alto officials rushed Wednesday to submit an emergency application for state funds to repair the damaged San Francisquito Creek levee this week before a deadline set for today, officials said.With an estimated price tag of $650,000 for the needed repairs, East Palo Alto officials moved to lay to rest concerns by some county officials that the application deadline for state matching funds might not be met. "I've been keeping track of this pretty closely," Mayor Ruben Abrica said. "The application is going in [Wednesday]."
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With the county's low-income insurance plan once again buckling under the weight of high health care costs and bordering on insolvency, the health professionals who oversee it are urging the state to raise its Medi-Cal reimbursement rates.The call for help comes just three years after the Health Plan of San Mateo — which serves about 56,000 Medi-Cal, Healthy Kids and Healthy Families members — nearly shut down for the same reason, officials said Wednesday.
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City officials will lobby state and federal geologists Monday to show Foster City on upcoming state earthquake hazard maps as less prone to liquefaction than current federal maps indicate.In February, the U.S. Geological Survey released an update of its regional "liquefaction susceptibility" maps, which detail areas where the soil is prone to liquefying during an earthquake, a phenomenon with disastrous results for buildings. As in past maps, areas in which the groundconsists of landfill on Bay mud received the highest risk rating.
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San Francisco International Airport will shut down one of its departure runways for 15 days starting Friday to allow for repaving, officials said Wednesday.The closure could cause airplanes to be rerouted for overland departures during periods of congestion, possibly increasing flight noise.After the initial shutdown, night work will continue for about five months, San Francisco International Airport spokesman Mike McCarron said in a prepared statement.The airport's noise-monitoring office and local elected officials
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Proposition H, a 2004 ballot measure that provides tens of millions of dollars in escalating city funding for San Francisco public schools over the next decade, was promoted to voters as being almost exclusively for arts, music, sports, library and preschool programs. While a clause in the ballot summary referred vaguely to "general education purposes," the message by proponents was clear: Prop. H money would be directed toward programs that directly helped children in San Francisco public schools.
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A massive police sweep of Western Addition suspected crack dealers in the early hours of Tuesday morning resulted in the initial arrest of 14 people.The San Francisco Police Department expects to pick up the remainder of the targeted suspects — as many as 10 — today and tomorrow."These [raids] are targeting the areas in The City that have been subject to a spike in violence. There’s always a clear nexus between street violence, such as shootings and homicides, and the sale of narcotics," Deputy Chief Morris Tabac said.
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