A number of anti-violence community organizations are crying foul about how the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice has doled out $3.5 million in grant money.Allen Nance, head of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, acknowledged that there was a break from tradition when awarding money to organizations that serve at-risk children.
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The construction of a new six-story office building along Terry Francois Boulevard is the latest addition to the Mission Bay redevelopment plan that is dramatically transforming the former site of rail yards.Lowe Enterprises Investors, a Los Angeles-based real estate firm, announced Friday it has acquired for an undisclosed price the waterfront property next to the new Old Navy headquarters.
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Controller’s study paints costs for city should voters pass mandated paid daysCity government costs will increase by as much as $9.3 million a year if voters approve a ballot measure in November that would mandate paid sick leave for all employees, according to a city report.
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Muni riders, long plagued by the transit agency’s slow buses and unreliable stop times, may find some relief in just six months.A $2.4 million, 18-month study of the bus system, commissioned by Muni, is expected to yield results before its completion in December 2007. Facing budget woes and a decline in ridership, Muni officials look to changes in the coming months as the first steps toward a long-overdue overhaul of the transit system.
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The Bay Area’s first death resulting from the West Nile virus is not alarming San Francisco health officials.An elderly woman, who lived in the central part of Contra Cost County, died "some days ago" as a result of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, Wendel Brunner, the county’s public health director, announced Thursday morning. The woman is the second to die of the virus this year in California.
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With the aid of newly installed surveillance cameras, the city attorney is cracking down on those who illegally dump garbage on sidewalks and in vacant lots.City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced Wednesday that he filed the first lawsuit based on footage from the cameras against Wilfredo Amaya, alleging 23 incidents of illegal dumping at a vacant lot in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.
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The replacement of Muni tracks older than 30 years in front of the West Portal station scheduled for Labor Day weekend has been postponed, according Muni spokeswoman Maggie Lynch.The San Francisco Municipal Railway had intended to replace the tracks in front of West Portal over the three-day weekend because "ridership is lowest on the holiday weekends," Lynch said.
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Nobody likes being laid off, but 11 former city workers say they lost their jobs only so The City could rehire workers at half their pay, an allegation city officials deny. Eleven former Department of Public Works employees announced Monday morning that they are holding a weeklong hunger strike on the steps of City Hall demanding their jobs back, which they lost two years ago.
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Dancers say private rooms provide them key revenueHundreds of adult entertainers converged on City Hall on Friday in an effort to prevent lawmakers from banning private rooms and booths in San Francisco’s adult entertainment clubs.The City Commission on the Status of Women is considering legislation to ban the private rooms after receiving reports that women are sexually exploited and abused in the secluded areas.
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A San Francisco resident who rescued another man from an assault in the Mission district on Thursday evening was fatally shot.Thirty-two year old Jesus Estrada and his 29-year-old friend successfully defended a young man under attack by a group of young men on the corner of Harrison and 25th streets.The group of young men retreated, but threatened to return. Ten minutes later they came back and shot the two men, according to San Francisco police Sgt. Steve Mannina. The shooting occurred at about 6:45 p.m. on the sidewalk near Garfield Square park.
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Residents: City should get Ingersoll Rand to sell landVisitacion Valley residents are hopeful that city planners can pressure a big industrial manufacturing company to sell off a key piece of property to open the way for a major housing and retail development.Residents and city officials say New Jersey-based Ingersoll Rand Co. is dragging its feet when it comes to cleaning up the contaminated 12-acre site and unwilling to sell the property.
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A $2.3 billion shortfall in building costs hangs over the heads of a number of the 19 major transportation projects in the pipeline for the Bay Area.The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a planning agency for nine counties including San Francisco, has placed 19 transportation projects on a priority list that will significantly change Bay Area transportation during the next 25 years.The fate of these projects ultimately depends on whether the financing is secured, according to James Corless, MTC senior planner.
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Community benefit districts are popping up all over The City as property owners see them as a way to revitalize and market their neighborhoods.Mayor Gavin Newsom has trumpeted the establishment of community benefit districts since coming into office, calling them a "proven, grass-roots economic development tool" that would clean up The City and make it safer.For years Union Square was The City’s only community benefit district. But last year, five new benefit districts were adopted.
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Potrero Hill residents have thrown up resistance to big chain stores looking to open in their growing community.The Potrero Hill Association of Merchants, a group of 105 neighborhood business owners, has spearheaded an effort to restrict, and possibly ban, formula retail businesses — those with 11 or more locations nationwide — from opening up in the neighborhood.
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The City’s stance against Catholic Church officials who oppose the adoption of children by same-sex couples is under attack by a powerful church group.The Catholic League, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, has filed a lawsuit against the Board of Supervisors for adopting a resolution in March criticizing a high-ranking church official for directing Catholic leaders in San Francisco not to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
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