Tunnel Tops Unveiled

The Tunnel Tops park includes fun for the whole family. Photo: Presidio Trust

The Presidio Trust unveiled the fruits of a $118 million project to build the new Tunnel Tops park when it officially opened the park for the public in mid-July. Speaker of the Ho... Read More

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Update On Crime

By John Zipperer

For the week ending July 3, violent crimes were up 4 percent for the year-to-date in the Northside neighborhoods covered by the SFPD’s Northern Station. Rapes increased 33.33 pe... Read More

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Briefly Noted

By John Zipperer

In late July, Mayor Breed touted the opening of 430 new shelter beds for the homeless. That total comes from 250 beds at 711 Post Street and 180 private rooms at the Baldwin SAFE ... Read More

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Returns In-Person

By John Zipperer

“We are thrilled to return to Golden Gate Park,” reads the website and Twitter feeds of the long-running Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Following two years without in-per... Read More

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Tunnel Tops Opens This Month

By John Zipperer

Be there for opening day on Sunday, July 17 for the long-awaited unveiling of the new Tunnel Tops parkland. The Presidio Trust has planned a day of family- friendly events and act... Read More

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Supreme Court Effects

By John Zipperer

The conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court issued blockbuster rulings in late June on two of the hottest of hot topics — abortion and gun control. The former has less immedia... Read More

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Late Night Date Night?

By John Zipperer

The state Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization voted 12–3 to pass legislation that would allow seven pilot cities in the state to extend to 4 a.m. the sale of alcohol... Read More

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Briefly Noted

By John Zipperer

North Beach’s Ethiopian restaurant Massawa has closed for good, the San Francisco Business Times reports. Its 532 Green Street location is believed to be the site for the new Am... Read More

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Special Summer Cookout Facts and Figures

By John Zipperer

11 percent: Amount of increase in the cost of hosting a party of 10 this year than in 2021, according to Karol Aure-Flynn, an agriculture analyst at Wells Fargo, the source for al... Read More

Mayor London Breed and other dignitaries, including Supervisor Catherine Stefani (seated, right), announce the opening of Francisco Park. Photo: Jim Watkins/SF Rec and Park

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Francisco Park Opens

By John Zipperer

For six decades, Russian Hill’s Francisco Reservoir lay dormant, unused and surrounded by fencing. That prime location at Bay and Hyde streets is now the new 4.5-acre Francisco ... Read More

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Crime Update

By John Zipperer

In an update on Northside crime year-to-date through May 8, Northern Station police report that there were increases in the categories of rape (up 66.7 percent), assault (61.5 per... Read More

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Candid Camera

By John Zipperer

District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Mayor London Breed, and the San Francisco Police Department are cooperating on a plan that would allow police to temporarily access non-city-ow... Read More

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Briefly Noted

By John Zipperer

The biennial “Point in Time” count of the city’s homeless population was released in mid-May, and it showed a 15 percent drop in unsheltered homelessness and a 3.5 percent d... Read More

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Facts and Figures

By John Zipperer

Number 1: San Francisco became the first city in the nation to offer free diapers to all families on public benefits . . . 441: Number of felony defendants as of May 6 whose cas... Read More

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Van Ness Busses Go Zoom

By John Zipperer

After what seemed like a decade but was only six years, construction of the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit Project was completed and put into service on April 1. The project included ... Read More

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