Palm Springs offers a glimpse of the glam life that Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe lived in what was the Hollywood hideaway. Palm trees swaying in the warm desert air, nonstop sunshine, and pools aplenty still make Palm Springs a great playground. Less than a 90-minu... Read More
It is that time of the year again and people are shopping up a storm! Lots of people will be out spending lots of money, but there is one group to be mindful of that I have written about before: opportunists. These are the “unconventional shoppers” that watch the rest of ... Read More
The Auxiliary Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is a citizen-staffed disaster preparedness program designed for volunteers 16 years of age or older who live, work or attend high school in San Francisco. ALERT volunteers will first complete the fire department’s Neighbor... Read More
The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to CrimeMAPS. UNDER THE INFLUENCE Oct. 26, 1:30 a.m. Steiner Street at Filbert Officers responded to ... Read More
According to the National Bike Registry, bicycle theft is up 10 percent nationwide. Not all thefts are reported to the police, so exact numbers are unavailable, but the San Francisco Bay Guardian recently estimated that 2,000 to 3,000 bicycles are stolen every year in San Francis... Read More
For years, there has been a movement to convince cable television providers to charge for their channels on an a la carte basis. You can select each of the channels you want and pay for only those. If we took that same approach to public budgets, what do you think would be the re... Read More
In November, a class action suit was filed against Uber – the popular on-demand car service – on behalf of San Francisco taxicab drivers, while the California Public Utilities Commission fined Uber (as well as a number of car-sharing services) $20,000 and threatened t... Read More
It’s that time of the year again – “the most wonderful time of year,” as sung by Andy Williams in 1963 and piped into countless elevators since. It is also the most hectic, most fattening, and typically the most stressful time of the year. While there’s ... Read More
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that cutting and burning trees adds more global warming pollution to the atmosphere than all the cars and trucks in the world combined? – Mitchell Vale, Houston, TX By most accounts, deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxi... Read More
Stroll along Crissy Field at night and look up into the sky, and you will see lots of stars. But because of the interference of other lights in the metro area, you won’t see nearly as many stars as someone in the countryside would see. For scientists who have been studying ... Read More