News Archives for January 31, 2010 - February 6, 2010
Repairs To Sinkhole Completed, N Judah Back In Service
2/7 10:15 AM: Good work, team! MTA spokesperson Judson True sends an alert that the repairs the the N Judah line necessitated by a...
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Muni Joins Twitter For Real This Time, But Won't Offer Service Alerts
Muni has launched a pilot experiment with a new technology known as "Twitter" that may, for the first time, allow the organization to communicate with...
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CitiApartments (Bed)Bugs Out, Isn't Paying Back Former Tenant's Deposit
Reader J tells us that last year, he his girlfriend rented "a beautiful studio" at 775 Geary at Leavenworth from CitiApartments (or, as they're...
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Video: The Scene After This Morning's M Oceanview/Car Collision
8:07 AM: True says that as of 7:45, the accident has been cleared and regular service on the M has resumed. 19th Avenue is...
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Appealing Events: Get Off The Internet And Go To A Muni Town Hall Meeting
This week there's been some talk about y'all (yes, you all) are just internet whiners who don't do anything real to make your concerns...
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Labor 3, Politicians (And Budget-Balancing) 0
Third measure of day that would rein in city spending on its employees quashed. Earlier today, The Appeal dutifully reported that political pressure forced supervisors...
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Crime Blotter, Thursday February 4: Two More Muni Muggings, Mission Hit And Run
Wednesday, 2/3/10 10:10 AM: You're gonna love this one. Two men and a woman reportedly confronted a guy who uses a wheelchair, asked him why...
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Supes Abandon Plan To Control Muni Driver Salaries-Next Up, $8 Million Raise
Transit operators at the San Francisco Municipal Railway will continue to be -- by city law -- the second-highest paid bus drivers in the...
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Firefighters Successfully Quash Cost-Cutting Measure Extending Work Week
Bowing to political pressure, the Board of Supervisors killed Thursday a proposed charter amendment that, if approved at the Board and at the ballot...
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6.0 Magnitude Offshore NorCal Quake Reportedly Felt In SF
12:56 PM: More reports rolling in from San Franciscans who felt this offshore NorCal quake: Chandini Davis felt it at Franklin and Sacramento and...
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The Richmond Report: Win Legion Of Honor Tix, Agitate For Jimmy's Old Car Picnic
It's a diamond life over here in the Richmond... In honor of Cupid's holiday and the old saying that diamonds are a girl's best...
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SF Views: Inside Online Baseball With KevMo
Kevin Montgomery hadn't professionally blogged a word when he was asked to run popular local blog Mission Mission in the summer of 2009. He...
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Mayoral Math: Gavin Says Half The Supes Are Hypocritical Condo Converters
For the life of him, Mayor Gavin Newsom cannot understand this Board of Supervisors, especially "this current Board." The Gang of 11 last year...
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Muni Service Cuts Haven't Happened Yet -- So Why Does It Feel Like They Have?
Further cuts to Muni service seem to be more and more of an inevitability. Is it just the power of the suggestion of a...
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Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
Tuesday, 2/2/10 8:55 AM: In what SFPD is describing as a "possible gang-related incident," an undescribed suspect reportedly drove up next to an undescribed...
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Tenant Troubles: Sorry, CitiApartments, "Routine Inspections" Are Illegal
Dave's here to answer your questions every Wednesday, so send them to him at tenant@sfappeal.com I've rented the same apartment from Citi Properties for...
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Meet Your ($100K Worth Of) Dufty For Mayor Supporters
Realtors, Police & Firefighters, Gov't Employees, a Pornographer and a Journalist The list of potential successors to Mayor Gavin Newsom's Room 200 throne is crowded,...
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Judge Slaps CitiApartments With $50K Bill For Dawdling
San Francisco's most reviled landlord, CitiApartments (or, as they're now known, First Apartments or FirstApartments or firstaps.com) has been, as you know, embroiled in...
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Crime Blotter, Tuesday Feb. 2: Panhandle Assault, Getting Robbed In A Convenience Store
Monday, 2/1/10 8:56 PM: A man reportedly assaulted another man in what SFPD describes as a "possible attempted robbery" at Baker and Fell. The...
9:17 AM: True says the accident cleared and the N returned to normal service at 9 AM. 8:26 AM: MTA spokesperson Judson True has alerted...
Should SF's Smoking Ban Extend To Bars' "Smoking Patios"?
Are you pro-freedom -- or pro-cancer? Nobody's a friend of the Big C, but questions around the extension of San Francisco's smoking ban are...
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Nefarious Plot To Banish Progressive Supes To Sac Foiled
UC-Hastings-educated, born and bred Frisco native Jackie Speier -- currently representing St Francis Wood and nearby environs in the United States Congress -- hasn't...
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See Spot: Investigating Pt. Reyes' Missing Women
I love a mystery. I was raised on them, spending rainy school nights watching Poirot with my father in my childhood home in Mill...
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Crime Blotter, Monday February 1: Afternoon Kidnapping At Knifepoint On Muni
Friday, 1/29/10 10:07 AM: Two men reportedly robbed a check cashing business on the 1600 block of Bryant at gunpoint, before fleeing on foot....
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