Subject: Hetch Hetchy

• Water World -- San Francisco Style

  October 2, 2007

• The Prop. H Campaign's Big Lie

  October 20, 2008

• Will the new Hetch Hetchy plan wring San Francisco dry?

  Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — represents a fraught balancing act between the thirst of a rapidly swelling urban hub and the vulnerability of natural resources that have borne more than their fair share of strain from the steady dev

  November 14, 2008

• Enviro Sacrifice Watch: No More Clubbing Baby Seals

  MoeLyn PhotosEnvironmentalists came first for my bottled water. And I didn't speak up because I drank Hetch Hetchy springwater on tap. And then they came for my garbage cans, requiring me to separate out recyclables from trash. I didn't speak up, because, well, I thought I could manage. And then, they came for my right to club baby seals. And I decided it was time somebody spoke up. The Marine Mammal Center -- the sea-animal-rescue operation that just poured vast expanses of concrete o

  February 26, 2009

• Masters of Disaster

  March 20, 1996

• The Class of 2000

  Eight years after being swept into office, a once-disorganized band of neighborhood leftists tries to create a citywide political machine.

  October 29, 2008

• Mi Amor

  Let him count the ways this unique Italian restaurant won his heart

  February 14, 2007

• A Bridge Too Costly

  The city's way of contracting out public works construction is broken — so much so that companies are not bidding on important municipal projects and that could cost us billions

  May 31, 2006

• Powerful Advice

  May 10, 2006

• Bridge Out

  A look at the comically delayed Fourth Street drawbridge project, and how the city's Byzantine contracting system costs millions

  June 22, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  May 4, 2005

• The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations

  April 13, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  September 29, 2004

• Big Dam Mess

  The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

  September 22, 2004

• Surprise!

  If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

  January 21, 2004

• Derailing the Jaye Train

  Why Matt Gonzalez should stick with his progressive roots, and ignore pressure to act "responsibly"

  November 19, 2003

• The World According to Bechtel

  There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• It's a Bechtel World

  Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• Notes From the Edge

  October 23, 2002

• The Horror

  October 2, 2002

• A Vote of Competence

  This is no time for softheaded governing. In this election, Prop. F and Dennis Herrera pass the confidence test; MUD fails completely.

  October 31, 2001

• Dead Mud Walking

  A ballot measure that would create a Municipal Utility District has so many legal flaws, it's all but DOA. In fact, passing the measure might delay the advent of public power here for years.

  October 10, 2001

• Gray Skies

  If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

  July 4, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of April 18, 2001

  April 18, 2001

• Delusions of Power

  April 4, 2001

• Smoke and Smearers

  Potheads distort the record -- and endanger the justice system -- as they try to recall the Marin DA

  February 14, 2001

• Side Dish

  March 31, 1999

• Ship of Fools

  Men keep falling in love with the aging steam schooner Wapama. She always exacts her price.

  March 17, 1999

• Back Home

  January 7, 1998

• Slap Shots

  December 24, 1997

• Riff Raff

  June 18, 1997

• Night+Day

  January 17, 1996

• Your Water Rates May Be Going Up -- But the PUC Will Still Happily Give You a Cartoon Map of City Reservoirs For Free

  Sure, many of us harbor troubling notions about hikes in the water rates, or what Hetch Hetchy Valley looked like before we opted to make it our principal water source. But if you're a sucker for cartoons, maps, and have a soft spot for recently deceased Farley creator Phil Frank -- well, then the Public Utilities Commission has a hell of a deal for you. The PUC will gladly send you -- gratis -- three Frank-created maps: One (pictured above) portraying all the city's reservoirs and water tanks;

  May 7, 2009

• S.F.'s tasty tap water about to get a little murkier

  May 20, 2009

• Has Willie Brown Outfoxed the Board of Supervisors -- Again?

  Why was Willie Brown -- that's him on the left -- involved in sponsoring an Assembly bill the city's Board of Supervisors is madly hoping to derail?It probably wasn't really Mark Twain who said "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." But until the day 80-proof distilled spirits begin rolling in via the tunnels from Hetch Hetchy, it seems the city of San Francisco will have a hard time winning any water wars when one Willie L. Brown, Jr. is on the other side. This story is a

  June 24, 2009

• Willie Brown tries to force city to restore lucrative contract with engineering firm

  July 1, 2009

• Chronicle Decries Willie Brown-Sponsored Bill SF Weekly Reported On Last Week -- But Can't Track Down Its Own Columnist Brown

  Have you seen this man? The Chronicle can't seem to find him. A week ago, SF Weekly reported on the curious case of former mayor -- and current Chronicle columnist -- Willie Brown carrying the water for a massive engineering firm that the city shut out of a Hetch Hetchy irrigation project. In a nutshell, Parsons Corp. served as a consultant for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in drawing up the specs for a portion of the gargantuan, $4.4 billion project -- which led the city attorne

  July 1, 2009

• SF Gov inAction: All Chris Daly Jokes Must Now Be Translated Into Chinese, Spanish, and Tagalog Upon Request

  There are only three meetings left standing this week: By contrast, four meetings were supposed to happen, but canceled. Is it just me, or are city hall meetings increasingly resembling network programming? "Well, we would LIKE to have a City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee meeting, but we don't feel that Neighborhood Services appeal to educated males ages 17 to 34, so we'll just stick with reruns of our old City Operations instead." I guess that's what you get with a mayo

  July 28, 2009

• The Wrong Stuff

  September 9, 2009