Mayor Ed Lee is headed to Sacramento this week to try to convince Gov. Jerry Brown to spare redevelopment agencies for California cities.Brown has suggested eliminating the agencies as a way to help trim the state’s $25 billion budget deficit.
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Two San Francisco police officers were suspended Wednesday night for 360 days without pay for their part in a series of videos assailed as racist and offensive by former police Chief Heather Fong and Mayor Gavin Newsom.What became widely known as Videogate has already resulted in the police officer who produced the videos, Andrew Cohen, quitting the force.
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Fresh off the news that the federal government has issued renewed support for a $200 million funding allocation for the project and with new construction work starting up near Union Square, local residents will discuss other updates to Muni’s $1.6 billion Central Subway undertaking.
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Think twice the next time you think of stuffing that squab. Feeding pigeons leads to overpopulation, poses a health hazard and it’s against the law in San Francisco, according to the Department of Public Works.But apparently not all city residents are heeding that advice because the department sent out a reminder this week telling residents — you know who you are — to cut it out.
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A 43-year-old man who has served nearly 20 years in prison for the murder of another man during a drug deal at the Alemany public housing projects is now set to go to trial again for the same murder.Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 of second-degree murder for the June 30, 1990 fatal shooting of another man, Judy Acosta.
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A day before BART’s newest station opens for service, agency officials will hold a grand opening ceremony to celebrate the new depot.BART’s West Dublin/Pleasanton Station will officially open up to passengers on Saturday. At 10 a.m. Friday, BART will hold a special event for the $106 million station — BART’s 44th — located between the Castro Valley and Dublin/Pleasanton stations in the East Bay.
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For years, a group of The City’s policy experts on criminal justice have been working on a way to make the transition from jail or prison to a regular productive life easier, thus reducing the chances that those former inmates will again commit crime.The Reentry Council — a diverse group composed of prosecutors, defense lawyers, probationers and even reformed criminals — could be coming to an end unless the Board of Supervisors extends its sunset date.
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Although this may come as a bit of surprise to people who live along Van Ness Avenue, walking in San Francisco has gotten a whole lot safer in recent years.
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What does former Supervisor Chris Daly think of labor union boss Larry Mazzola’s proposed boycott of the Buck Tavern? He’s seemingly basking in the attention.“Larry Mazzola hates San Francisco,” Daly said, calling the Buck a “special place in the lore that is San Francisco” and an “up-and-coming establishment.”
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State Sen. Leland Yee is likely to make a few enemies when he begins his run for mayor of San Francisco in earnest.A few that he can count on? Frogs, turtles and sharks.Yee today took a stand in favor of shark fin soup. A proposed state law by South Bay Assemblyman Paul Fong would ban the consumption of shark fins entirely, in order to curb practices where fins are harvested but the rest of the shark is dumped back into the water.
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