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Happily Raving About Street Lighting

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Have you walked down Main Street’s east side (The Infinity/server co-location side) from Folsom to Harrison street at night recently and noticed how well-lit the sidewalk is? Holy cow - its great!!
I just noticed the new, bright street lights for the first time tonight when I walked home from Mission and Main [...]

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Free Three-Hour Personal Disaster Preparedness Workshops from San Francisco Fire Department

December 21st, 2007 · No Comments

San Francisco Fire Department’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) and San Francisco SAFE offer training classes four times in January for folks interested in learning about disaster preparedness. I highly recommend attending this training, and I also recommend you consider attending the full NERT training program.
What: Free, Three-Hour Personal Preparedness Workshop and NERT Block [...]

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CORRECTION: No Rincon Hill Development Impact Fees Have Been Spent Outside of Rincon Hill

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Time for me to eat some crow pie. I jumped to conclusions before taking the time to do some further research and, as a result, posted some erroneous conclusions about development impact fees collected in Rincon Hill. This is one of the risks of putting yourself out there instead of just letting the [...]

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Tags: Activism · Public Services

Development of the Piers and Other Challenges for the Port of San Francisco

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

There was a very good article by Robert Selna in today’s San Francisco Chronicle that discussed the financial and bureaucratic challenges for The Port of San Francisco to create a recurring stream of income to fund their operations and to take care of the piers that the State of California allowed to dilapidate for years [...]

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PG&E Working on Street Lamp on Main Street This Morning

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m optimistic that when I walk home from work tonight, the darkness that used to cover a segment of the sidewalk between Folsom and Harrison because of a non-working street lamp will finally be illuminated again. While walking to work this morning, I observed a PG&E truck parked by the light pole and a [...]

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