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Published: December, 2017 Doggie in the Window Take a peek! Your new best buddy might be staring out at you from the Macy’s windows. Bring your friends and family to visit the San Francisco SPCA Holiday Windows at Macy’s Union Square through January 1. The colorful, artfully designed windows are filled with adorable, adoptable […]
Published: November, 2017 Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is the Bay Area’s newest passenger rail service, providing a new option to avoid the weekday highway 101 gridlock from highway 37 to Santa Rosa. The initial 43-mile system, which began service in late August, includes stations in the Sonoma County Airport area, Santa Rosa, Rohnert […]
BY PATRICK BURNSON Published: November, 2017 San Francisco-based BSR created its Clean Cargo Working Group (CCWG) some time ago to address the ongoing need for reducing the environmental footprint of the world’s merchant vessels. Last month CCWG issued a key report demonstrating that much progress has been made. The report is based on […]
BY MATT LARSON Published: November, 2017 No matter what you have a degree in, where you’re working or what kind of experience you have, working on the water can be just one big decision away. That was the case for Tressa Hall. Before working as a deckhand for Blue & Gold Fleet, she was […]
Published: November, 2017 In October, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 595 into law, clearing the way for Bay Area voters to decide—potentially as early as next June—on Regional Measure 3 (RM3), which would raise tolls by up to $3 on the region’s seven state-owned toll bridges to finance the sweeping $4.5 billion package of […]
Published: November, 2017 At the October 10 meeting of the Sausalito City Council, the council voted unanimously to grant consent, with conditions, for the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District’s revised plans to remove the existing Sausalito ferry landing and build a new ferry landing. The city council vote granting consent for […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: November, 2017 Ten years ago, on November 7, 2007, more than 53,000 gallons of heavy oil spilled into San Francisco Bay. The disaster happened when a 900-foot container ship, the Cosco Busan, side-swiped a Bay Bridge tower, gashing open two of the ship’s fuel tanks. The damage was compounded […]
BY CAPTAIN RAY Published: November, 2017 Summer has ended, and with it comes an inevitable decline in the wind. With the sun no longer heating the Central Valley to triple-digit temperatures, the temperature gradient (which creates a pressure gradient) between the coast and inland eases and the strong winds of summer, for which San […]
BC STAFF REPORT Published: November, 2017 Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is the Bay Area’s newest passenger rail service, providing a new option to avoid the weekday highway 101 gridlock from highway 37 to Santa Rosa. The initial 43-mile system, which began service in late August, includes stations in the Sonoma County Airport area, […]
BY BILL PICTURE Published: November, 2017 It’s been 17 years since San Francisco launched its highly successful recycling program, and many city residents admit they still find themselves wondering “do I or don’t I?” when approaching the blue bin at their home or work. San Francisco Department of the Environment (SF Environment) and […]