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Hetch Hetchy

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    Mayor Ed Lee, Election Champ?

    As we noted yesterday, it's difficult to pin banners reading "WINNER" and "LOSER" on vestiges of city power following Tuesday's election because they're often the same people. Today, Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius came up with an interesting take on things. Who's the big winner? Mayor Ed Lee. Every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    5 Essential Edibles for Your Hardly Strictly Experience

    If you're hoofing out to Hellman Hollow for San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, I have some edible suggestions designed to avoid further burdening your already-bulging backpack. Because you're going to need that space for the chardonnay, chevre, and ciabatta that makes such great acc ... More >>

  • News

    August 29, 2012

    Carbon Tax Funds: S.F. Monies Are Sitting Around Unused

    If you're hoofing out to Hellman Hollow for San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, I have some edible suggestions designed to avoid further burdening your already-bulging backpack. Because you're going to need that space for the chardonnay, chevre, and ciabatta that makes such great acc ... More >>

  • News

    June 20, 2012

    Green Facade: New SFPUC Building Masks an Eco-Unfriendly Truth

    If you're hoofing out to Hellman Hollow for San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, I have some edible suggestions designed to avoid further burdening your already-bulging backpack. Because you're going to need that space for the chardonnay, chevre, and ciabatta that makes such great acc ... More >>

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    Guardian pick Leland Yee Also Wins Approval from PG&E

    If you're hoofing out to Hellman Hollow for San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, I have some edible suggestions designed to avoid further burdening your already-bulging backpack. Because you're going to need that space for the chardonnay, chevre, and ciabatta that makes such great acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Mayor Lee Declares Soda Free Summer Because He Hates Summer

    Nancy Pelosi/FlickrMayor Lee: ruiner of summer.​We love Mayor Ed Lee. The push-broom mustache, the quiet authority, the no-drama way he's run City Hall -- we'd give it five stars on Yelp. So it pains us to say this, but: Mayor Ed Lee is trying to destroy summertime. "San Francisco is fortunat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    City Wants $150M Water Recycling Plant in Golden Gate Park -- But Shut One There in 1981

    Recycled water isn't emanating from those sprinklers in San Francisco. But it did in the days of yore. ​Last night, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission held its first public meeting regarding a proposed water recycling plant in Golden Gate Park. The $150 million plant would treat 2 milli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Ross Mirkarimi Pushes for Paperless San Francisco

    Your days are numbered, pal...​This morning, while lamenting the demise of his progressive Muni charter amendment, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi couldn't help but tell SF Weekly about the mind-blowing amounts of paper associated with the mind-blowingly long and complicated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Barbara Boxer Helps Score $36.8 Million for California Counties. S.F. Gets a Piddling $5,668.

    Hey, thanks a lot!​Sen. Barbara Boxer, in a tight re-election contest against Republican Carly Fiorina, has helped largely poor and rural California counties to a vat federal funds. Boxer has lent a hand in hastening this year's installment of government payments showered upon counties to com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Drink up: SF Tap Water "Safer" Than Bottled Water

    sfwater.orgWorth every penny​Take a long, cool drink of the Hetch Hetchy the next time someone hands you a bottle of Fiji: city officials have long said that the imported mountain water which provides San Franciscans' tap water is better than bottled H20, and now they have a study to prove it.The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Your Rundown on the Week in S.F. Government

    A Tea Party slogan unknown in San Franciso government​Should be a fun week -- the Board of Supervisors is weighing in on the fiasco involving narcotics analysis at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab, the Police Commission is trying to reform its process for disciplining wayward officers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Why Does Chron Ignore What Willie Brown Writes -- In the Chron?

    What'll it take to get Willie Brown quoted in the Chronicle?​If you were penning an article for the Chronicle about whether Willie Brown was a viable candidate to serve as San Francisco's interim mayor, you'd think the following quote from Hizzoner himself would be somewhat relevant: "I have no in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    McClatchy Newspapers Renew Misleading Anti-Hetch Hetchy Crusade

    Coming soon? Don't count on it. ​"Hetch Hetchy could go on ballot," declares a headline in today's Modesto Bee atop a story claiming the group Restore Hetch Hetchy is on the verge of putting a measure before San Francisco voters this November that, if successful, would lead to the destruction of O ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2009

    Signs of Progress

    San Francisco politics were dysfunctional in the 2000s,but recent changes suggest there's reason for hope.

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

    Spend more. Get less. We're the city that knows how.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Engineer: Century-Old Pipes Bursting From Old Age Won't Survive Quake

    Wait! We're not ready! ​You don't need to be a top-flight engineer to figure that a century-old water main that crumbled on its own over the weekend turning SoMa into a swamp would not have survived a strong earthquake. Chris Poland, however, is a top-flight engineer, and he confirmed it -- the ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Flushed: More Information Floods Forth on City's Roaring Hydrants

    Joe EskenaziWhitewater! ​The other day, we wrote about the proliferation of Water Department employees cracking open Mission Bay's fire hydrants, letting 'em rip, and then cooling their heels for up to three hours or more while untold quantities of Hetch Hetchy water gushed into the sewers. Sure i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    City Dwellers Doused as Water Department Flushes Fire Hydrants

    Joe EskenaziJed's a millionaire!​ Conversation in the line for a chi-chi Mission Bay taqueria was dampened the other day when, a few yards off, a city water department employee hooked what appeared to be an oversize cow bell to the fire hydrant. Before anyone could make a "more cowbell" joke, a to ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    Fixing Hetch Hetchy Dam costs $1 billion more than it should

    Joe EskenaziJed's a millionaire!​ Conversation in the line for a chi-chi Mission Bay taqueria was dampened the other day when, a few yards off, a city water department employee hooked what appeared to be an oversize cow bell to the fire hydrant. Before anyone could make a "more cowbell" joke, a to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 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 mee ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2009

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

    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 mee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 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 ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2009

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    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 P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    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. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 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 — r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2007

    Water World -- San Francisco Style

    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 — r ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 14, 2007

    Mi Amor

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

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    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

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    Powerful Advice

    Leaders should ignore the temptation to over-regulate energy policy and let competition reign

  • News

    June 22, 2005

    Bridge Out

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

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, May 4, 2005

  • News

    April 13, 2005

    The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations

    The envelope, please ... and the Pulitzer goes to -- Environmental Defense!

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

  • News

    September 22, 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?

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    Surprise!

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

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Derailing the Jaye Train

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

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

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

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    It's a Bechtel World

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

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    Notes From the Edge

    The choices are dark and dreary, but the only candidate for governor is (be still, pounding heart) Gray Davis

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    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.

  • News

    April 18, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of April 18, 2001

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    Delusions of Power

    Is it smart to jump into the Bay Guardian's version of public power, without even studying whether it will save money?

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    Smoke and Smearers

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

  • Dining

    March 31, 1999

    Side Dish

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

  • Dining

    January 7, 1998

    Back Home

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

  • Calendar

    December 24, 1997

    Slap Shots

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

  • Music

    June 18, 1997

    Riff Raff

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

  • Calendar

    January 17, 1996

    Night+Day

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

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