My latest: San Francisco’s beloved cable cars are in trouble. They haven’t run in nearly a year due to the #COVIDー19 pandemic, and the @sfmta_muni won’t promise they’ll run in 2021 either. Saving them likely depends on a planned tax measure next year. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
I’m with you! San Francisco isn’t San Francisco without its cable cars.
I’d never heard of long-ago San Francisco Mayor Roger Lapham until five minute ago, but I already despise him. In an annual address he said, “Junk the cable cars!” Thankfully a very smart woman named Friedel Klussmann intervened. sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vaul…
I’m glad the cable car liked the column about itself. Ding ding ding! 🔔
Scenes from inside the cable car barn at Mason and Washington. Lots of cars are covered in plastic to protect them from pigeon poop as they await their return to service. No guarantee that will happen this year. 😢
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Six days until our #ILoveTheRichmond celebration plus #TotalSF virtual movie night. Spend the day supporting small businesses and then press play on “Always be my Maybe” at 7 pm. Got the party started today with a visit to @GreenAppleBooks. 📚
Great small businesses. Slow Lake Street. Mountain Lake Park with a 2,000-year-old natural lake. (In 1996, an alligator was spotted in the lake, and the Chronicle and Examiner waged an unsuccessful battle to capture it first. Only in San Francisco.) #ILoveTheRichmond#TotalSF
Should have made it to the Outer Richmond for this! Next Saturday, Norton the It’s-It is expected to make an appearance at the @balboatheatresf.
It's San Francisco vs. San Francisco. City Attorney @dennisherrera today will sue the San Francisco Unified School District and the Board of Education for failing to craft a plan to reopen its schools. "So far, they have earned an F," he says.
Mayor @LondonBreed supports the city's lawsuit to reopen public schools.
“This is not the path we would have chosen, but nothing matters more right now than getting our kids back in school," she said. "This is hurting the mental health of our kids and our families."
Listen to me and @demianbulwa discuss the city's lawsuit against the school district -- believed to be the first in the state and maybe the nation -- on today's Fifth and Mission.
BREAKING: Anybody visiting San Francisco from outside the Bay Area or returning to the city after travel must quarantine for 10 days under new health order. Non-essential travel of any kind and of any distance is strongly discouraged per Mayor Breed and Dr. Colfax.
Dr. Colfax will hold a press conference with more info momentarily.
Colfax: #coronavirus cases in San Francisco have doubled since Thanksgiving. The Bay Area has 13.1% of ICU beds available. Throughout California, 3% are available.
I’ve never roasted anybody, and I’ve definitely never roasted anybody via Zoom. But that was fun! (If my public schools named after drag queens idea takes off — and it SHOULD — @SisterRoma Elementary would be 🔥🔥🔥.)
I had to look this up. Sister Boom Boom was a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and ran for supervisor in 1982, listing her occupation as “Nun of the Above.” Then the city passed an ordinance called the “Sister Boom Boom Law” requiring candidates’ real names on ballots! #TotalSF
My latest: An open letter to @bchesky, the CEO of @Airbnb who’s worth $11.2 billion after last week’s IPO, on how he could use some of that money to help suffering San Francisco. On my list? Small businesses, public schools and food banks. What’s on yours? sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Wow, lots of people sticking up for billionaires this morning!
My latest: Why does San Francisco have a profession called “permit expeditor”? Why has the Department of Building Inspection been caught up in City Hall’s corruption scandal? Why does it take so freaking long to get a building permit? Read on for answers! sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
After diving into the incredibly complex, tangled, confusing San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, I told my editor I needed a column expeditor to help me write this. 🤪
Remember my column on Jason Yu who wants to open an ice cream shop in the Mission but has been thwarted by the city again and again? I checked back in. Does he have his permit from DBI now? Nope. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…