At the end of last month Mayor Lurie proposed a new budget for the city of San Francisco. It came in just under $16 billion dollars. That included a bunch of cuts to try to eliminate a projected deficit of $782 million. One way to cut those funds is to cut back on city jobs....
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Getty Images Investigators are examining whether foggy conditions and technical glitches at a San Diego airport that cut off lights meant to guide pilots may have played a role in a fatal plane crash. A Cessna 550 crashed early Thursday into a residential neighbourhood, burning cars and destroying at least one home. Authorities say all...
Both Beege and I have been writing about this problem for a few years. In my case, I think my first post about problems with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train system was back in 2018. But post-pandemic the problem really went into overdrive. Prior to the pandemic about 70% of the funding for...
Several people are believed to have died after a small plane crashed into a residential street in San Diego on Thursday morning. No residents were seriously injured, but there was “more than one fatality” among the passengers on board, Assistant Fire Chief Dan Eddy said. Several homes were destroyed and cars caught fire after the...
I honestly have no idea how I missed this. The San Francisco Chronicle has been running a series of stories on permitting nightmares for two years. The most recent installment is from March of this year. It involves a newly renovated donut shop and the placement of a single sink. [Rebekah] Ahn’s family has owned...
Here’s another side effect of the Trump anti-DEI campaign I didn’t see coming, and certainly not from this angle – some San Francisco (of all places) non-governmental organizations (NGO) are losing healthy portions of formerly rock-solid funding thanks to their level of DEI-ness. In San Francisco, I imagine it would be inordinately hard to be...
“Fans are close to the pitch and really in sync with the players,” explains Gaizka Atxa, founder of a supporters’ group named after Fred Pentland, a legendary former English coach of the club. “The environment is usually overwhelming for rivals that come to San Mames. It’s intimidating, especially in La Liga. In Spain, I don’t...
San Francisco has a lot of problems to deal with already, a broke public transportation system, a broke school system, corruption, a failing downtown, criminal justice problems, homelessness, etc. What the city didn’t need on top of all of that was a very public scandal involving a high-profile progressive in city government. But that’s what...
There’s been a growing border crisis for decades that has, again in the past few years, coinciding with the Biden administration term, taken on frightening proportions. Once again, it has to do with Mexico, but only indirectly with physical Mexicans crossing the border. It’s a direct result of what they’ve flushed and failed to dispose...
A 5.2 earthquake rattled San Diego, California, and the surrounding area on Monday afternoon, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake struck at 10:08 local time (18:00 GMT) with an epicentre in Julian, California. The resort town is located in the Cuyamaca Mountains about an hour north-east of San Diego. Around two hours after...
Give San Francisco this much credit: at least their latest art installation doesn’t prompt any confusion over what it depicts. We think, anyway. But we’ll get to that point shortly. These days, civic art installations usually take the form of modern-art monstrosities, especially sculpture. The most common reaction to these municipal art choices is inevitably,...
Brian Harman warmed up for this week’s Masters with a three-shot victory in blustery conditions at the Texas Open in San Antonio. The 38-year-old, who won the 2023 Open Championship, finished with a three-over par 75 in his final round but it was still good enough to finish clear of the pack. Harman’s title was...