Chapter 56: The heavens remain

Suddenly the sky grew dark. As rain started pouring down, I closed my eyes, raised my face, and let it wash away my tears.... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Party in Palm Springs

By Patty Burness

Palm Springs offers a glimpse of the glam life that Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe lived in what was the Hollywood hideaway. Palm trees swaying in the warm desert air, ... Read More

Captain’s View

Keeping your holidays happy and your property secure

By SFPD Northern Station Captain

It is that time of the year again and people are shopping up a storm! Lots of people will be out spending lots of money, but there is one group to be mindful of that I have written... Read More

Community

SFPD introduces Auxiliary Law Enforcement Response Team

The Auxiliary Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is a citizen-staffed disaster preparedness program designed for volunteers 16 years of age or older who live, work or attend hig... Read More

Police Blotter

Crime on the beat

By the Officers of Northern Station

The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to... Read More

Safety Tips

Bike theft workshop

According to the National Bike Registry, bicycle theft is up 10 percent nationwide. Not all thefts are reported to the police, so exact numbers are unavailable, but the San Francis... Read More

Opinion

The golden ticket: City’s reverse Robin Hood spending

By John Zipperer

For years, there has been a movement to convince cable television providers to charge for their channels on an a la carte basis. You can select each of the channels you want and pa... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Embracing innovation and San Francisco’s sharing economy

By Supervisor Mark E. Farrell

In November, a class action suit was filed against Uber – the popular on-demand car service – on behalf of San Francisco taxicab drivers, while the California Public Ut... Read More

Union Street Scoop

The home stretch

By Leslie Drapkin

It’s that time of the year again – “the most wonderful time of year,” as sung by Andy Williams in 1963 and piped into countless elevators since. It is also the most... Read More

EarthTalk

Seeing the forest through the trees

By roddy scheer & doug moss

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that cutting and burning trees adds more global warming pollution to the atmosphere than all the cars and trucks in the world combined? – Mitch... Read More

Science

A sky full of earths

By John Zipperer

Stroll along Crissy Field at night and look up into the sky, and you will see lots of stars. But because of the interference of other lights in the metro area, you won’t see ... Read More

The Wild Wild Web

The ‘Me Me Me’ millionaires

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

The recent $4.05 billion sale of Lucasfilm Ltd. to the Walt Disney Co. caught many Star Wars fans off-guard. While some weren’t happy about it (“Disney’s going to... Read More

Socially Responsible

Bay Area a hotbed for social entrepreneurs

By John Zipperer

In 2012, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama visited Silicon Valley looking not for votes – everyone knows this is the bluest of blue areas – but for money. If they had spent ... Read More

Finance

Good old Yankee ingenuity

By Alan Silverman

In 2008, representatives from the U.S. Government Accountability Office took a trip to the Cayman Islands – not to lie on the beach at our expense, but to visit a five-story ... Read More

Dollars & Sense

‘Tis the season for donating money

By Jason Alderman

Like many other economic measures, charitable donations in the U.S. have yet to bounce back to pre-recession levels. According to Giving USA’s Annual Report on Philanthropy, ... Read More

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