The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s board of directors is expected to approve a $2.5 million contract on Tuesday to a company that investigates workers compensation claims.Workers comp claims at the SFMTA, which operates Muni, are numerous, with an average of 700 reports filed each year. About 25 percent of those claims merit extensive investigation, according to the agency.
Chinatown community leaders are calling on mayoral candidate Leland Yee to end his Cantonese-language robo-calls warning residents not to hand over their ballots to campaign workers supporting Mayor Ed Lee.
According to a translation of the call, a voice warns residents not to give ballots to Ed Lee’s campaign “or anyone related to Ed Lee.”
After a night in which it was thought there could be a raid on the Occupy SF encampment by the San Francisco Police Department, police Chief Greg Suhr spoke Thursday about why officers did not go into the camp and what could lie ahead.
Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday spoke about Occupy SF, especially highlighting how San Francisco is moving forward in the wake of the crackdown against Occupy Wall Street protesters in Oakland.
While old-fashioned bullying remains a problem in area schools, especially for LGBT teens, tormenters are increasingly relying on the Internet and mobile phones to harass their victims.
Candidate for district attorney Sharmin Bock is calling attention to the more than 1,000 unsolved murders in The City as part of her campaign platform to reform the Police Department’s DNA lab.
Same-sex couples, who say San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera defended them in order to allow them the right to marry seven years ago, are now returning the favor.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors member John Avalos on Tuesday introduced a resolution to support the Occupy SF movement. On Wednesday, Avalos went on “Democracy Now” to talk about his resolution and his stance on Occupy SF.
With things heating up in Oakland between police officersand the local demonstrators in OccupyOakland, an offshoot of the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement, San Francisco politicians are taking the opportunity to protect the protest in The City.
