Month: November 2015

On the low-turnout Nov. 3 election, 56% of voters approved Proposition J, the Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund. The new fund will provide grants to locally-owned

The Economy Is Better — Why Don’t Voters Believe It? | FiveThirtyEight http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economy-is-better-why-dont-voters-believe-it/ At 9:30 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, Cyndi Diercks stood poolside at

A Lost Generation of Democrats – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/opinion/campaign-stops/a-lost-generation-of-democrats.html?_r=0 As Republicans never tire of pointing out, the Democratic candidates for president are old. The average age

For the second month in a row, an overflow audience filled the community room at SFPD’s Park Station last night for a monthly meeting led by

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/opinion/a-seismic-shift-in-how-people-eat.html Sarah Illenberger, photograph by Sabrina Rynas IT’S easy to make fun of people in big cities for their obsession with gluten, or chia seeds,

When 245 Hyde St. opened as a recording studio in 1969, the intersection of Hyde and Eddy was much the same now as it was then: bustling

Central City Extra catches up with Sam Dodge, the mayor’s new homeless czar, during his first month on the job. http://hoodline.com/2015/11/sf-s-new-homeless-czar-grew-from-grassroots This article, written by

Cyrus Vance Has $808 Million to Give Away – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/cyrus-vance-has-dollar-808-million-to-give-away.html These days, the programs being announced by the Manhattan district attorney sound more like

Citing Climate Change, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/obama-expected-to-reject-construction-of-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline.html WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected