Faced with a budget deficit that could balloon to $66 million by 2010, Muni is considering raising the price of the $45 monthly Fast Pass to as high as $60 within the next two years.
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A plan to bring a new day-laborer center to Bayshore Boulevard, touted by city officials as a way to alleviate the growing number of workers on César Chávez Street, has been met with a series of logistical obstacles, leaving its future in doubt.
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For the past five years, Pierre Barolette has kept a guarded eye on his two young boys while they played on the Balboa Park playground, an aging edifice rife with splinters, rust spots and loose chains."The structure is so rickety," Barolette said. "It’s hard to relax when you see your children climbing around on such an old playground."Barolette’s safety concerns — and those of the rest of the Mission Terrace community that neighbors the Balboa Park playground on San Jose Avenue — will be put to rest in a single day.
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A $21 million settlement for the death of a 4-year-old girl who was fatally struck by a Muni maintenance truck in 2003 will be discussed Tuesday in a closed-door session by board members of the Municipal Transportation Agency.
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As a way to combat rising truancy rates in San Francisco’s public schools, city officials have created a new program in Bayview-Hunters Point to help foundering students stay on the road to academic recovery.
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With his legs trembling and his voice shaking, David Smith, a 94-year-old veteran of the International Brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War, made a frank admission on Thursday morning. "I never cried the entire time I was in Spain," said Smith, who was deployed in the war from 1937 to 1939. "But I am crying now."
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Two incidents on opposite ends of Caltrain’s service route left evening commuters saddled with delays Thursday.
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A little-publicized pilot program by BART that provides a permanent card that riders can add money to electronically has signed up an estimated 22,000 passengers in its first 16 months. Launched in October 2006, the EZ Rider pass is electronically scanned by sensors at all BART gates, and is available for any commuter willing to make $45 payments — for which they’ll receive $48 in value — that are automatically culled from a credit card. Anytime the value of an EZ Rider card dips below $10, the card is refilled with a $45 payment.
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An excessive speed limit, dangerous intersections and an overall lack of pedestrian safety are some of the concerns community residents have raised about Masonic Avenue, an arterial pathway in San Francisco that is home to a Muni line and a city-sanctioned bike-path route.
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The former San Francisco supervisor was a friend and ally of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in The City. Silver played a supporting role and acted as a consultant for an upcoming biopic about Milk, who was killed in 1978 by political foe Dan White. For the movie, which stars Sean Penn and recently wrapped filming in the Castro, Silver played Thelma, a composite of the motherly figures who supported Milk’s political aspirations.
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Faced with an ever-widening achievement gap split on racial and ethnic lines, San Francisco school board members introduced a resolution Tuesday that aims to boost at least 60 percent of the district’s students to proficiency in math and English within the next four years. Proficiency standards are defined as grade-level mastery of the state’s standardized tests.
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Bay Area police may now have one more tool to fight crime — anonymous informants.Safety officials Monday announced the launch of an annonymous tip line that offers rewards of up to $2,000 to anyone who calls (800) 222-TIPS and gives information that leads to an indictment.
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Despite three failed attempts, state Sen. Leland Yee is confident his latest bill to impose a double-fine zone on the dangerous stretch of Highway 1 in San Francisco will win the approval of state legislators.
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When the new moon rose blankly into the nightsky on Feb. 7, it marked the end of the lunar year 4705, but for Chinese families across San Francisco, the passing of that milestone was only the beginning of a nearly three-week celebration that ushers in Chinese New Year.Boisterous gatherings, long lines of banquet food and streams of gifts highlight the extended stretch of revelry, starting with the new moon appearance that marks the onset of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, and culminating with the Lantern Festival, occurring 15 days later with the arrival of the full moon.
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The San Francisco resident is a children’s author who annually crafts tales incorporating animals of the Chinese zodiac. His latest offering, "Year of the Rat," tells the tale of Ralph, a baby rat seeking out mischief and adventure. "Year of the Rat" follows Chin’s previous Chinese zodiac-themed stories, "Year of the Pig" (2007) and "Year of the Dog" (2006).
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