Web tagging has nothing to do with spray paint and isn’t illegal. But it does have something in common with the gang tagging seen on freeway overpasses: It is a way to show the masses what you think is cool.
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Imagine going to a track meet in which medals are awarded according to how many competitors you put in the 100-meter dash or how high you can set the bar in the pole vault. Winners in the long jump are determined not by how far individuals soar but by how many attempts they make. Those phony measures of excellence are being used to judge our nation’s high schools.
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By Dee Dee WorkmanAfter one of the worst natural disasters this country has ever seen, survivors are returning to the South to rebuild their lives. As we witness the resurrection of New Orleans, we are inevitably reminded of an earlier time in history when San Francisco was nearly wiped off the map by a natural disaster that claimed the lives of thousands and left The City in ashes.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently toured the Washington, D.C., high-tech emergency command center and gave mixed grades to The City’s own preparedness in comparison.
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Antony Bogodist played his way into special company on Friday afternoon at the Golden Gate Park Tennis Courts.The Lowell freshman cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Wallenberg junior Javan Gardinier to win the Academic Athletic Association boys’ tennis singles championship. In doing so, Bogodist, a 6-footer with a powerful forehand, secured the first step in his quest to carry the torch of current Santa Clara freshman and former Lowell standout Kenzo Hirakawa-Wong, who became the first player to win four straight AAA titles between 2002 and 2005.
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This Pacific Heights penthouse is one of only 12 half-floor residences in the building. "The building was built in 1927 so it has very lovely details in the ornate plaster," says listing agent Dona Crowder with Pacific Union Real Estate. "It has recently been refurbished with new hardwood floors and a remodeled kitchen and bath. It was just really, really nicely redone." The building is on a corner and has elaborate entryway details with a vaulted ceiling.
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Like most densely populated urban areas today, the Bay Area is vulnerable to numerous natural and technological breakdowns, from earthquakes on down. Fortunately, when it comes to our water supply San Francisco and the Peninsula are blessed with at least one potential safeguard in the event of a prolonged drought or a breakdown of the aging Hetch Hetchy water system.
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Bay Area Episcopalians will vote Saturday for a new bishop of the California Diocese in an election that could create controversy if one of three gay candidates wins.The vote comes three years after the first openly gay Anglicanbishop, Gene Robinson, was elected in New Hampshire. Conservative elements within the church threatened to split off after that election, and have made the same threat again.
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Board of SupervisorsSchool board meetings may be added to SFTVA public hearing about broadcasting San Francisco's school board meetings will be held at the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee meeting on Monday. Proposed by Supervisor Tom Ammiano, a former teacher and school board member, the hearing would look into the feasibility of including the meetings on The City's government television network, SFTV, which can be watched online.Fire Department
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For the first time since 2002, a new Academic Athletic Association singles boys’ tennis champion will be crowned today.A year after Kenzo Hirakawa-Wong won his fourth straight AAA championship, Lowell freshman Antony Bogodist will try to begin his own reign at the top of The City tennis ranks. The top-seeded Bogodist overcame a first-set loss to beat Washington’s Benson Chau 3-6,6-2, 6-1 in one semifinal. He will face Wallenberg’s Javan Gardinier. The second-seeded Gardinier beat Lowell junior Max Zidorov in straight sets
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The Stuart Hall pitching coach looked at his pitch chart like it held a secret to the art of getting batters out.And it did.Sure, Knights pitcher Chauncey Aceret threw his curveball for strikes, located his fastball and trusted his capable defense. But the numbers on the chart told the entire story.The senior right-hander threw 22 of his 27 first pitches for strikes — numbers the Giants’ bullpen could learn from — as the Knights knocked off Lick-Wilmerding 4-1 in a speedy Bay Counties League West affair at Skyline College.
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Michael Fields has a very patient wife. Sandra Fields is originally from the Virgin Islands and has been waiting 38 years to move back to her warm-weathered isles. But it looks like she’ll just have to keep waiting. The family has followed Fields’ career from Long Island to New York City to Massachusetts to the Bay Area, where they have been since the late 1980s. "We came out to California and my wife saw that she didn’t have to wear a coat," said Fields. "She loved it and after that she informed me that she and the kids were moving back to California."
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The interviewing process for the new president and CEO of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau took all of three weeks. The winning candidate, Joe D’Allesandro, was simply going about his business three weeks ago when he got a call from a headhunter asking him to interview for the position.
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Higher fares, increases in parking permit fees and a passenger fuel surcharge could all be on the table next month, as Caltrain looks to close a $4 million budget gap, officials said Thursday.A 12.8 percent growth in average weekday ridership that drove revenues up $5 million helped to narrow the projected 2006-07 gap from $13 million a year earlier. But having raised rates twice — by a total of about 52 cents a ticket — in 2005, board members said they feared driving riders away with another increase.
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With the end of the wettest winter in a century comes the start of what promises to be a busy pothole repair season.San Francisco Department of Public Works spokeswoman Christine Falvey said Thursday that patch-paving repairs — where workers repave a section of asphalt to eradicate multiple potholes and other damage — are up 33 percent this year, from 382,583 square feet in 2004-05 to an estimated 417,000 square feet by the end of June.
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