Emily Green
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NFL big winner in return to Mexico City, Raiders routed by New England 33-8
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's favorite sport may be soccer, but it has no shortage of fanatical football fans. American football, that is. And they are just as passionate and blindly loyal as their U.S. counterparts. A boisterous crowd of 77,500 people packed Azteca Stadium in Mexico City to watch the Raiders lose to the Patriots 33-8 in the third-ever NFL game played in Mexico. According to the… → Read More
Mexico hopes to avoid another Tom Brady stolen jersey incident this Sunday
MEXICO CITY - The run-up to this weekend's NFL game in Mexico City between the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots is bringing back memories of one infamous incident: The case of Tom Brady's missing jersey. Few people have forgotten that it was a Mexican reporter who stole the jersey Brady wore in last year Patriot's comeback Super Bowl victory over the Atlanta Falcons last year. On Friday,… → Read More
SF looks into forming its own bank
The legalization of marijuana in California, the constant demand that the city divest from one bank or another for one political reason or another, and the fact that undocumented immigrants can’t get bank accounts. “The time is now to begin addressing this, because people in San Francisco are at a point where they are no longer willing to accept the status quo and they are open to exploring… → Read More
Mexico’s ex-president, in lively speech, calls Trump “a crazy guy”
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox called President Trump “a crazy guy” Wednesday while offering a spirited defense of the open trade policies between Mexico and the United States that Trump has said he wants to scrap. In an an hour-long speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Fox extolled the benefits of free trade while also deriding, sometimes with irony, Trump’s attack on… → Read More
Brighter days ahead for SF museum, shelter after power dispute
Mayor Ed Lee has brokered a deal to get the lights turned on at a children’s museum in Corona Heights and a homeless shelter in Dogpatch, temporarily ending a stalemate between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. [...] the agreement doesn’t resolve an underlying tension: PG&E’s demand that the city invest hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure… → Read More
Supervisor Peskin nemesis moves in next door in City Hall
Justin Jones may not be well known, but he is the lightning rod behind the former Robert F. Kennedy Democratic Club, a political committee that took more than $900,000 from tech and real estate groups to support moderate candidates and measures in November’s election. Peskin unsuccessfully tried to deny the name change and compared the group to the Koch brothers, the billionaire brothers who are… → Read More
Brighter days ahead for SF museum, shelter after power dispute
Mayor Ed Lee has brokered a deal to get the lights turned on at a children’s museum in Corona Heights and a homeless shelter in the Dogpatch, temporarily ending a stalemate between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. [...] the agreement doesn’t resolve an underlying tension: PG&E’s demand that the city invest hundreds of millions of dollars in… → Read More
Wiener goes direct to PG&E, says turn on power to projects — now
State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco was furious to learn in a recent Chronicle article that PG&E still hadn’t turned on the lights at a children’s museum, a public plaza and homeless shelter in the city. On Friday, he fired off a letter to PG&E calling the delays unacceptable and demanding the utility take immediate action to power the new Navigation Center in Dogpatch, the Randall Museum… → Read More
Clash over power supply holds up opening of SF public sites
Clash over power supply holds up opening of SF public sites “PG&E needs to step up or step aside,” said Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who accused the utility of delaying tactics because it is unhappy with the city’s aggressive push to sell its own clean energy to PG&E customers in San Francisco. The PUC, on the other hand, is adamant that it power the three sites with Hetch Hetchy hydroelectric power… → Read More
Tony Winnicker, a power in the mayor’s office, on to other things
Friday is the last day on the job for Tony Winnicker, senior adviser to Mayor Ed Lee and, along with Chief of Staff Steve Kawa, one of the two “baldies” the late Rose Pak liked to mock. For now, Winnicker will be a self-employed political consultant, but he said more career news will come soon. Winnicker’s resignation, while not a surprise — he has been hinting he will leave for months —… → Read More
Bill seeks more liquor licenses in SF
[...] Street in the Bayview, Mission Street in the Excelsior, San Bruno Avenue, Ocean Avenue, Noriega Street, Taraval Street and parts of Visitacion Valley. The bill is one of two legislative pushes in Sacramento that could enhance nightlife in the city, but which opponents say would over-saturate San Francisco with alcohol and undermine public safety. State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco,… → Read More
Supervisors want landlords who say they’re moving in to prove it
[...] one day the landlord says, “You have to go because I’m planning to move in.” Except the landlord never moves in but instead rents the apartment to someone else — for a lot more money. The district attorney’s office hasn’t prosecuted a single landlord for a fraudulent owner-move-in eviction over the past five years because, it says, proving the owners never intended to move in is really… → Read More
Programs in sanctuary cities threatened by federal funding cut
Housing for homeless young adults in a special program to have their criminal records expunged. Money to purchase body cameras for police officers. In response, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a legal brief arguing that the city does, in fact, comply with the federal law as part of his lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order to strip that funding. At stake is money… → Read More
US attorney general threatens to block grants to sanctuary cities
After months of warnings from the Trump administration that sanctuary cities would lose federal funding, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions laid out some specifics for the first time Monday. Sessions also suggested the Justice Department would force sanctuary cities and states to return grant money already received, something legal experts said was a dubious possibility. The biggest losers… → Read More
PG&E quietly clearing toxic soil from pricey Marina district
For four years, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been quietly buying multimillion-dollar homes in the Marina and scooping out their backyards. The utility, California’s largest, is trying to remove chemical contamination that has lurked beneath a corner of the neighborhood for more than a century, toxic waste from two long-gone fuel manufacturing plants. A former gas station on Bay Street, now a… → Read More
SF’s voter-approved camp-sweep measure more symbol than substance
Nearly five months after San Francisco voters approved the anti-tent-camp Proposition Q, hoping it would trigger a tsunami of sweeps clearing the streets of homeless encampments, here’s how many times the new ordinance has been used: Q gives city officials the authority to clear a tent cluster if they give its campers 24 hours’ warning and an offer of shelter. With just 1,539 individual and… → Read More
S.F. supervisor wants more pay for city contractor employees
Service workers at the airport and in other city-owned facilities could see a $2 raise in July, under a bill introduced Tuesday at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. When your lowest paid workers get more income, they spend it and that spending generates economic activity that leads to increased tax revenue for the city, so this is a win-win situation. [...] at Tuesday’s board meeting, a… → Read More
2 SF supes seek to punish companies for bidding on border wall
The Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a resolution last week recommending the city divest from any company involved in any aspect of the project, and the Oakland City Council is set to vote a on a measure Tuesday barring the city from entering into contracts with companies that work on the wall. Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, introduced legislation Monday requiring the state’s… → Read More
Lombard Street fee plan meets resistance from 2 supervisors
A proposal to charge people who want to drive down the crooked stretch of Lombard Street got a less-than-enthusiastic response from some members of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Supervisor Mark Farrell is pushing the idea as a way to address the gridlock of cars, sometimes extending for blocks, that line up to drive down the 500 feet of red brick road. “I don’t want to commit to agreeing… → Read More
Nonprofit developers oppose campaign donation ban
Supervisor Mark Farrell’s attempt to regulate money in politics may backfire, as nonprofit developers are lining up to oppose what they say is an ill-conceived piece of legislation that would prevent them from spending public funds on political campaigns. The controversy indicates a political miscalculation by Farrell, who boldly introduced the bill as exposing “dark money” in campaigns but… → Read More