By Benjamin Wachs
I have to admit something before I begin: Gavin's ability to be boring is stronger than my ability to be funny.
I'm slipping.
I think I can hold the line for seven-and-a-half hours, but if he posts a sequel (perhaps "State of the City: Revolutions," or "State of the City: Attack of the Moderates") I'll be overwhelmed.
In the meantime, here's the State-of-the-Citysode on Transit. For the Citysode on Healthcare, Education, and the Environment, click the respective links.
Jared GruenwaldYou can make money, and that's good. And you can help the environment, and that's great. And, sometimes, you can do both -- and that's just super. But when you're only using the environment as a front for a money-making scheme, then you've crossed the line into green-washing. And that's where New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is. This week, the New York Times reported that Bloomberg knocked a penny off his initial bag fee proposal, down to five cents -- yet now expects to rake in five
Jim HerdDid promised millions froma shady tax shelter deal blur Muni's judgment?A month before investigators began to sift through train wreckage to determine the cause of last week's Muni light rail crash, officials examining deadly transit accident in Washington D.C. discovered a defect that could eventually lead to problems with San Francisco trains.
According to Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, Washington transit officials failed to replace worn-out rail cars be
The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the New York City edition of the New York Times titled "San Francisco's Cyclists Facing Backlash for Flouting Rules of the Road."The story didn't coincide with the headline. The purported San Francisco backlash consisted of one guy on a bike who got a ticket for running a stop sign in Portola Val
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