Three years ago, San Mateo High School teacher Ellyn Daugherty's husband told her the happy truth: no matter how dedicated and infectious a teacher she was, she just couldn't teach all the other teachers who wanted to learn her biotechnology curriculum.So she wrote the book instead. Now, two months after publication, "Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium" has been adopted by schools nationwide and is likely to be adopted by the San Mateo Union High School District tonight.
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The importance of businesses to the vitality of our city is routinely paid lip service by local politicians. In reality, however, many of City Hall’s elected officials treat the business community less as an integral part of our city and more like a cash cow to be milked at every opportunity.A recent proposal to charge San Francisco businesses a new $39 annual fee is just the latest example of City Hall’s seemingly boundless enthusiasm for dipping into the pockets of local merchants whenever a new supply ofrevenue is needed.
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While millions of us are still struggling to shed those extra holiday pounds, food activists, personal injury lawyers and bureaucrats say we don’t have to make the effort — it’s up to Congress and the courts to produce a trimmer America.John Foreyt, director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Baylor College, predicts that if trends continue, every American will be overweight or obese by 2040. Activists claim this crisis calls for government intervention, but government has waged a fight against fat for over 50 years — and to no effective end.
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Market Street is the Highway 101 for bicyclists in San Francisco, but faced with bicycle lanes that suddenly disappear and major potholes, as well as heavy traffic competition, a commute can often leave riders frazzled or worse.Now, the Board of Supervisors and city officials are taking action to make The City’s busiest bicycle route a little more bike-friendly. Supervisors unanimously approved on Tuesday adding a new sections of bike lane on westbound Market Street from Van Ness Avenue to Octavia Boulevard and eastbound from Gough to 12th Street.
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The third death on the Caltrain tracks in 12 days occurred Tuesday, when an adolescent boy was fatally struck south of the Broadway train station.The boy, 13-year-old Fatih Kuc, was playing along the tracks and appeared to have accessed the area from a nearby dirt path, officials said. Police interviewed other children who witnessed the accident, and a police chaplain was on hand to comfort the boy’s family and witnesses, Caltrain spokesman Jonah Weinberg said.
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Officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claimed success Tuesday as they wrapped up a trial electronic-passport program at San Francisco International Airport, designed to keep enemies of the state from entering the country using stolen passport information.
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At precisely 5:13 a.m. on Tuesday, 100 years to the minute after the start of a catastrophe that has become the seminal event in San Francisco history, silence fell over Lotta’s Fountain at Market and Kearny streets. The moment offered a pause for reflection for the large throng gathered there, just as the recent weeks leading up to the 100th anniversary commemoration of the Great Earthquake and Fire have given us a chance to reflect on the disaster.
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City residents hiring teenagers to baby-sit, dog walkers or other "moonlighters" could be required to pay them minimum wage and keep records of the transaction or risk being taken to court under proposed new legislation.
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The week began on Easter Sunday, April 15, the 41st anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln and a month after the death of Susan B. Anthony. San Francisco, as did the nation, reveled in a technological transformation: the phonograph, the automobile, the electric light. Despite its relatively small stature — perhaps 430,000 residents, the nation’s ninth most populous city — San Francisco boasted a financial and artistic influence, a physical beauty that had garnered a worldwide reputation.
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Legislation to be announced today would expressly prohibit any move by California university or community college administrators to stifle student newspapers, after a memo surfaced in which an attorney for California State University indicated a recent Chicago court ruling may have opened the door to some forms of censorship.
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San Mateo will upgrade two fire stations that do not meet current earthquake standards, despite a shortage in the funds that were supposed to foot the bill.
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One thing Bay Area residents are known for is being ahead of the curve when it comes to adopting new and useful technology. So it has surprised many people that only 39 percent of Bay Area bridge commuters are using convenient FasTrak electronic toll payment, although the service was introduced seven years ago.This driver usage is barely half of the 75 percent regularly tallied by East Coast toll bridges and toll highways. So the latest attempt to put FasTrak transponder boxes into more commute cars will make the little transmitters available at all sorts of Bay Area retailers.
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The recent seizure of dozens of illegal slot machines, at what appears to be an otherwise legitimate business, highlights the seedier underside of California’s billion-dollar gambling industry, according to authorities.
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Japantown celebrated 100 years of history this weekend at the 39th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival, but looked forward to an uncertain future.
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California continues to display healthy signs of getting back onto its fiscal feet after nearly a half-decade of languishing under poor economic conditions and shortsighted budget management. The latest monthly statistics of the California Department of Finance disclose that state tax revenues for March were more than $900 million more than the governor’s budget forecast of $5 billion.
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