BY BILL PICTURE Published: April, 2018 Philippe Rahm hopes his latest exhibition will help inspire a new style of design. His goal is to look beyond the austere minimalism of the modernist architects of the first half of the twentieth century, whose less-is-more ethic continues to inform contemporary architecture, and instead find environmental solutions […]
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An RM3 Win Will Provide Critical Funds to Improve BART and Other Local Rail Systems
BY JOEL WILLIAMS Published: April, 2018 Regional Measure 3 (RM3) will appear on the June 5 ballot, and a favorable outcome will raise critically needed funds for transportation improvements in the Bay Area. If approved by a majority of voters in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and […]
OPENING DAY ON THE BAY
BY CAPTAIN RAY Published: April, 2018 Sunday, April 22 is Opening Day on the Bay. It’s a grand nautical party, portions of which can be enjoyed from the shoreline as well. Two events will happen that day: the roots of one go back several hundred years, and the other has been celebrated for just […]
Rogue Boat in Aquatic Park Highlights a Bay-Wide Problem
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: April, 2018 For months, a rundown sailboat has been illegally anchored in San Francisco Bay’s most sheltered swimming cove, Aquatic Park, off San Francisco’s northern shoreline. Swimmers have called and emailed Baykeeper’s Pollution Hotline repeatedly to report pollution from the rogue sailboat. They reported having to detour around the […]
EPA Grant to Ensure Safe Drinking Water
BY BILL PICTURE Published: March, 2018 California received $173.5 million last fall from the United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to help fund improvements to the state’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructures. The money, which is supplemented with state funds, will be managed by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), whose Clean […]
RM3 and the Future of Ferry Service
BY JOEL WILLIAMS Published: March, 2018 On February 8, the Water Emergency Transportation Authority Board (WETA) approved a resolution supporting Regional Measure 3 (RM3), the bridge toll ballot measure that voters in the nine Bay Area counties will consider during the statewide elections on June 5. If approved by voters, RM3 would raise […]
Ocean Film Festival Returns With Diverse Offerings
Published: March, 2018 "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth,” opined legendary author Arthur C. Clarke, “when it is quite clearly ocean.” For 15 years, the International Ocean Film Festival has been bringing back the focus to the 75 percent of our habitat that is indeed water. Like a wave-borne United Nations representing […]
Help Stop Sewage Pollution in San Francisco Bay
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: March, 2018 If you discover a sewage spill in Oakland—or have reported a spill in the past to Oakland city officials—please report it to Baykeeper. Sewage spilled into city streets generally ends up in San Francisco Bay. Spilled sewage is sometimes inappropriately washed down a nearby storm drain, or […]
Voters Support S.F. Seawall Project
BC STAFF REPORT Published: March, 2018 Nearly three-quarters of voters say they would vote “yes” on a bond measure to fund improvements to San Francisco’s seawall, based on a citywide voter survey conducted in January on behalf of the Port of San Francisco. Seventy-three percent of voters polled were in favor of a proposed […]
Suzanna Adamova
BY MATT LARSON Published: March, 2018 If you find yourself at the Larkspur, Sausalito or San Francisco ferry terminals and you end up needing help from a Golden Gate Ferry operations supervisor, you may very well be speaking with Suzanna Adamova. Adamova has been a casual operations supervisor since last summer, after working […]