San Francisco resident Austin Chu and his brother, Brian, will premiere their documentary, “The Recess Ends,” at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission district on Wednesday. The brothers traveled for five months [across the country] to document personal stories involving the greatest economic meltdown since the Great Depression.
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Starting today, drivers headed eastbound on Market Street will have to detour around stretches of the thoroughfare.
The plan is part of a study that will examine limiting personal vehicles and boosting transit service and pedestrian usage along Market Street.
Eastbound drivers will be encouraged to turn right off Market Street at 10th Street, but will be forced to do so at Eighth Street. Vehicles that turn right on Market Street from Seventh Street will be pushed back off to Sixth Street.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom just can’t wait to hang out with former President Bill Clinton in Los Angeles next week – and while they’re good friends, everyone knows this rendezvous is purely political.
Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign this afternoon released a brief itinerary of their plans for Oct. 5. The plans mark the first time Clinton will publicly appear by the mayor’s side in support of his bid to become governor.
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Two city housing developments are about to become more modern and energy-efficient with new funding help from the feds.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development doled out $500 million in grants to public housing authorities nationwide that will be used to build or renovate apartments and to make existing units more energy efficient.
For those efforts, the Ping Yuen development in Chinatown received $8.5 million, and the Westside Courts development in Western Addition received nearly $4 million, the agency said.
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Money talks or candidates walk.
That has been the strategy adopted by Jerry Brown’s campaign to persuade gubernatorial candidates to abandon their Sacramento dreams, and it has succeeded — with the exception of Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Gone are Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and former state Controller Steve Westly. And without even declaring his candidacy for governor, Brown has amassed a political war chest that dwarfs Newsom’s.
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Forced detours from Market Street in The City are intended to be a turning point for the bustling thoroughfare’s future.
Beginning Tuesday, eastbound drivers will be forced to turn off Market Street at two intersections. It’s part of a study that will look at limiting vehicle traffic and boosting transit service and pedestrian usage along the corridor.
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For the not-so-tech-savvy bunch, a glance at DataSf.org – the Web site offering oodles of city government information – is like searching for the right-sized shirt through the random racks at Goodwill stores. It’s quite a lot to digest.
But Mayor Gavin Newsom today has announced the launch of a section of the Web site that shows more clear examples of how all that data can be useful and will help make government more transparent.
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An online media company wants gubernatorial hopefuls Meg Whitman and Mayor Gavin Newsom to duke it out after school, 3 p.m.
CleanTechnica.com, an environmentally-focused blogging site, has invited Newsom and the Republican candidate to an online debate regarding the state’s climate change legislation, AB32.
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More changes are coming to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s staff.
Catherine Dodd plans to leave her post as the mayor’s deputy chief of staff overseeing health and human services, the Mayor’s Office said.
Beginning Oct. 5, Dodd will become interim director of The City’s Health Service System, filling the post following the resignation of Bart Duncan.
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In potentially deadly situations when every second counts, emergency responders show up to The City’s northeastern neighborhoods more than a minute earlier than those in southern areas, a new report said.
Pacific Heights, the Marina district and surrounding neighborhoods had the quickest time for a first responder to arrive at the scene of an emergency following a 911 call at 4 minutes 3 seconds, according to a San Francisco Fire Department report due to be released Thursday.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom probably wishes he could do nothing today but spend time with his newborn daughter, who came home from the hospital Tuesday.
However, Newsom will at least make one appearance this afternoon to move forward his gubernatorial campaign. The mayor will chat in his first online town hall meeting -- an hour-long event starting at 6 p.m.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom says his newborn daughter is home safe.
The mayor rushed to the California Pacific Medical Center early this afternoon to pick up his baby, who was born Friday, following an online campaign event involving Twitter.
Just before 3 p.m., the mayor apologized via Twitter for slowing traffic.
“I think we drove 3 mph,” he wrote. “Sorry for traffic jam!”
Newsom and his wife recently moved into a home in Ashbury Heights.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom loves his Twitter, having first announced his daughter’s birth and candidacy for governor on the micro-blogging site.
But today’s Twitter chat with the mayor, where he spent 45 minutes trying to answer a barrage of questions from users about how he plans on fixing California as governor, might have had some folks wondering why Newsom didn’t use a seemingly more useful -- although perhaps ol' fashioned -- chat site for the Q&A.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom is picking up his newborn daughter from the hospital this afternoon, he announced on Twitter.
“Thanks for the kind words about my daughter,” the mayor wrote on his Twitter page, where he announced both his daughter’s birth last Friday and also his candidacy for governor several months ago.
He also wrote: “Picking her up from the hospital after twitter talk!”
The online discussion was scheduled to end at 1:30 p.m.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom will likely be welcoming his wife and newborn home from the hospital today, so don’t expect any public appearances.
But Newsom will make at least one appearance – on Twitter.
This afternoon, he plans to use the site where he first announced his candidacy for governor to answer questions on how to fix California.
The chat is between 12:45 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
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