SHIFT COMING IN CITY HOUSING POLICY? We can call it the Marina Times Columnist Surprise: District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin masterminded the process by which acting mayor London Br... Read More
Catherine Stefani announced that homelessness, small businesses, and public safety would be her top priorities in her new role as District 2 supervisor. On Jan. 30, she was sworn i... Read More
If Regional Measure 3 (RM3) makes it onto the June 2018 ballot, Bay Area residents will have the chance to vote to pay more on local bridge tolls to fund an expansion of Muni’s f... Read More
In other policing news, Northside residents could celebrate falling crime in a number of categories, albeit not all. Between October and November 2017, Northern Station reported dr... Read More
The news in late January that there had been only 13 arrests made for auto break-ins over the course of the past seven years — a time period in which there were more than 81,000 ... Read More
A developer’s plan to put a Shake Shack burger restaurant in the former Cow Hollow building that once housed the natural foods-based Real Food Company store has drawn complaints ... Read More
TAXES AND HOUSING Conservatives finally got their long-sought tax bill at the end of December. To help pay for dramatic decreases in taxes for top earners, authors of the congressi... Read More
$3: Increase sought in Bay Area bridge tolls by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission; if approved by voters, the money would be spent on local infrastructure projects . . . M... Read More
The San Francisco Recreation and Park commission made it official in late December, officially renaming a meadow next to the Sharon Building in Golden Gate park after late comedian... Read More
A couple of experiments with robots in San Francisco did not end successfully. In early December, supervisors voted unanimously for Norman Yee’s legislation that restricts delive... Read More
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s $316.4 million Van Ness Improvement Project, also known as the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, resulted in some temp... Read More
San Francisco’s Aquatic Park was closed temporarily in December after several swimmers were attacked by a sea lion. Two of the attacks that took place within a 24-hour period in ... Read More
The sudden and unexpected death of Mayor Ed Lee in December left politicians and residents alike scrambling to figure out what happens next in the city. Who will be the next mayor?... Read More
REVIEW THE PREVIEW I was tempted to offer my own real estate year in review, but having already done that for the world at large (see my cover story this issue), I decided instead ... Read More
63: Percentage of millennials who have pretended to know more about operating office equipment than they really do know, according to the Brother Business Survey 2017 . . . $7,300:... Read More