If you want to fly a flag at half-staff for an occasion in San Francisco, it could cost up to $1,500. Local blogger and LGBT activist Michael Petrelis found that out the hard way when he asked The City’s Department of Public Works to do that in the Civic Center to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17. Read More
Some restaurant owners want The City’s guidelines for food trucks sent back to the kitchen.
Legislation adopted earlier this year was intended to strike a balance between terrestrial eateries and their mobile counterparts. But some restaurant and building owners say the arrangement doesn’t go far enough to prevent food trucks from swarming areas with a high density of restaurants. Read More
It appears to be a leaderless organization with multiple representatives and no discernible agenda. No, I’m not talking about Occupy SF; I’m referring to The City’s leadership in dealing with Occupy SF. Read More
Historians might someday call it the Battle of the Barricades.
Complete chaos nearly broke out Thursday between Occupy SF campers and police, but after a long day, cops and demonstrators both walked away with few injuries or arrests. Read More
The Department of Public Works cleared out a section of Justin Herman Plaza early Saturday afternoon, revealing the Occupy San Francisco camp’s underbelly of soiled cardboard, trash and feces smeared on the grass.
On a cement barrier previously blocked by a tent, someone had spray painted, “Please don’t pee.” Read More
On the heels of more than 100 protesters being arrested inside a Bank of America branch, the encampment at Federal Reserve must remove tents by Thursday evening, according to the Department of Public Works.
Mohammed Nuru, head of the Department of Public Works, said Wednesday that he’d met with campers in front of the Federal Reserve building, at 101 Market Street, and asked them to move their tents. Protesters can remain there during the day, but they cannot have tents. Read More
A line of tents from the Occupy SF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza has begun creeping up Market Street in response to what protesters say is overcrowding at the main camp, and The City is once again threatening to take action.
“We’re getting too big,” Occupy SF member Debra Lujan, 34, said Sunday, adding that the group had no intention of leaving Market Street. “Never. We occupy, that’s what we do.” Read More
More than 200 welfare recipients will be given city jobs as San Francisco plans to continue a program that was axed by the federal government. Read More
San Francisco could be on the hook for up to $30 million if a judge decides in favor of a group suing The City over its emergency rock walls at Ocean Beach. Read More
A city-owned asphalt plant sits unused with machinery rusting as material to pave San Francisco streets and fill the plentiful potholes is hauled by trucks from Brisbane, South San Francisco and even as far as Redwood City, some 27 miles away. Read More
