You are invited to a free public event featuring a panel of housing policy makers and activists discussing the forces driving the housing crisis in San Francisco and how to address them.
Free Event on May 16: Affordable Housing in San Francisco
Over Ninety Thousand Historic SF Property Photos Now Accessible to the Public
OVER 90,000 HISTORIC PROPERTY PHOTOS NOW ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY In 2018 the San Francisco Assessor’s Office launched an initiative to preserve and make publicly available over […]
Letter to the Editor – Running for Mayor
My name is William Nocera, and I have declared my candidacy for mayor of the City and County of San Francisco in the November 5, 2019 Consolidated Municipal Election.
St. Patrick’s Day, 2019
Photos from St. Patrick’s Day, 2019 in front of the United Irish Cultural Center on 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard. Photos by Michael Durand.
Link to Composit Photo of a 3-D Model of SF in the 1940s
A link to photo of a 42′ by 38′ detailed wooden replica of the city of San Francisco as it was in 1940 in 158 pieces at a scale of 1 inch to 100 feet.
City’s poet laureate visits district, plans ‘poem map’
by Janice Bressler Kim Shuck, San Francisco’s current poet laureate, is impossible to pigeonhole. She is a widely published poet who was appointed to the laureate position by the late SF Mayor Ed Lee in order […]
Unique legal assistance program offers seniors, veterans free help
The Medical-Legal Partner ship for Seniors, or MLPS as it is known, is working to help seniors overcome those obstacles by using a new model for delivering legal help to vulnerable populations.
New film highlights history of Richmond’s lost cemeteries
Lopez, a professor in the cinema department at City College of San Francisco, spoke about this dark chapter of city history at a recent meeting of the San Francisco History Association, after a screening of her documentary on the subject – “A Second Final Resting Place: the History of San Francisco’s Lost Cemeteries.”
CleanPowerSF enrolling
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) will enlist 25,000 commercial electricity customers citywide into the program starting in June.
Assembly – Phil Ting
Almost every Californian, drivers and non-drivers alike, has to interact with our Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). And we all have heard or experienced horror stories about long waits at the DMV office.
Commentary – Andrew Boghossian, Juliana Green, Lois Shaw
As students in San Francisco during its tech stardom, we have witnessed major changes in the City and we fear that skyrocketing housing prices, caused in part by the tech industry, are driving the arts and culture out.
Mayoral candidates stump for west side votes
Five candidates for the mayor’s office lined up in the Hall of Flowers at Golden Gate Park in late April to talk about marginalized people, their priority policies for affordable housing, making streets safer and helping the homeless.
Commentary – John O’Riordan
John O’Riordan is the northern chair for the Irish Caucus California Democratic Party.
View from above
Historic photo from above SF, 1950.
New Balboa St. home for Writing Salon
The 325-square-feet of bright, clean and newly-renovated office space for
The Writing Salon looks like it is just big enough to fit a ping pong table for a game
of doubles. Its intended design, however, is to release the unlimited potential of the
written word.
