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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Cole Hardware Guilty of Defrauding S.F. Taxpayers

    ​Cole Hardware -- which prides itself on being "San Francisco's favorite"  has been found guilty of bilking San Francisco taxpayers in a procurement scam, according to the District Attorney's Office. Cole Hardware is one of 10 co-defendants who conspired to defraud the San Francisco Public Ut ... More >>

  • News

    August 3, 2011

    SF's Drinking Water May Be Unsafe for Those with HIV/AIDS

    ​Cole Hardware -- which prides itself on being "San Francisco's favorite"  has been found guilty of bilking San Francisco taxpayers in a procurement scam, according to the District Attorney's Office. Cole Hardware is one of 10 co-defendants who conspired to defraud the San Francisco Public Ut ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Clean Energy Stimulus Cash Is Slow to Be Spent

    ​Cole Hardware -- which prides itself on being "San Francisco's favorite"  has been found guilty of bilking San Francisco taxpayers in a procurement scam, according to the District Attorney's Office. Cole Hardware is one of 10 co-defendants who conspired to defraud the San Francisco Public Ut ... More >>

  • News

    January 26, 2011

    Premium pay nets city workers millions in bonuses for just doing their jobs

    ​Cole Hardware -- which prides itself on being "San Francisco's favorite"  has been found guilty of bilking San Francisco taxpayers in a procurement scam, according to the District Attorney's Office. Cole Hardware is one of 10 co-defendants who conspired to defraud the San Francisco Public Ut ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2010

    How Prop. 26 undermines San Francisco values

    ​Cole Hardware -- which prides itself on being "San Francisco's favorite"  has been found guilty of bilking San Francisco taxpayers in a procurement scam, according to the District Attorney's Office. Cole Hardware is one of 10 co-defendants who conspired to defraud the San Francisco Public Ut ... 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

    September 1, 2010

    San Francisco's Clean Power Program Collapses, Starts Over

    Electricity never strikes out twice in one place... we hope.​After spending months attempting and failing to negotiate the terms of a new program to provide clean, relatively cheap power to the local citizenry, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission earlier this month began the process anew w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    SFPD: DNA Links Dead Man to Murder of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla

    Charles McAleer-Bonilla​The San Francisco Police Department is announcing that DNA evidence ties a suspected bank robber and kidnapper who recently died in a shootout with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department to the April stabbing death of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla in Noe Valley.

  • 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 >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    Bleeding Green

    Forget about Sharp Park’s endangered frogs and snakes. The real problem with the golf course is its enormous cost to the city.

  • News

    May 12, 2010

    Power Surge: Program could raise your electric bills

    Forget about Sharp Park’s endangered frogs and snakes. The real problem with the golf course is its enormous cost to the city.

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Your Rundown on the Week in S.F. Government

    Plastic bags have unintended consequences​San Francisco public officials love -- and we mean really, really love -- to dabble in bold social experiments. Whether they're trying out a novel scheme for government-controlled electricity service, legally enshrining the right of cats to keep their nail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Sewage Sludge Protesters Sling Mud at Chez Panisse

    Comin' to Chez Panisse, baby! ​The good folks who earlier this month gallivanted into Mayor Gavin Newsom's office outfitted in HazMat suits and brandishing jars of compost will be doling out the charm again tomorrow -- at Chez Panisse. The Organic Consumers Association, via a not overheated at all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Sewage Sludge Protestors Sling Mud at Chez Panisse

    superhappyfoodie/FlickrUnfair target?​The good folks who earlier this month gallivanted into Mayor Gavin Newsom's office outfitted in HazMat suits and brandishing jars of compost will be doling out the charm again tomorrow ― at Chez Panisse. The Organic Consumers Association, via a not overh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    City to Shower the Poor with Free Toilets

    Image | Audrey FukumanBevan Dufty and the PUC want to give low-income San Franciscans a new, low-flow throne​In a novel new take on the populist slogan of "a chicken in every pot," the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission today is announcing a program of providing free toilets for low-inc ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    S.F. Water Main Rupture Symptomatic of Trillion-Dollar National Problem

    Eruptions of water are more picturesque in Yellowstone Park than South of Market​Here's a reassuring thought -- yes, the city does have a program in place to replace its oldest and most vulnerable water mains. Here's a less reassuring thought: A 100-year-old water main burst over the weekend, floo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Bay Links: Hit-men, Deep Fryers, & Paparazzi

    ​You get the assassin you pay for. [Crime Scene]Mouth-watering shots of Kara's Cupcakes. [Jun Blog]Are you frying a turkey for T-Day? The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission wants to know. [SF Sewers]Modern-day blight in Noe. [Burrito Justice]Muni paparazzi are out of control! [Muni Diaries] ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    City Softens Requirements on Clean Energy Master Plan

    City officials have backed off from several of the more ambitious aspects of a planned overhaul of the local power grid that is intended to make San Francisco's energy supply greener and less dependent on Pacific Gas & Electric Co.The promised land​The city's Public Utilities Commission and Lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Hand Off That Funky Fry Oil at Various S.F. Drop Points

    Daniel Greene/FlickrYou could make someone's '83 Volvo very happy with this.​You can now repurpose used cooking oil in the greenest of ways, even if you haven't converted your own car to drive on biofuels. If you live in San Francisco, you can now get rid of that dodgy fry oil left from cookin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 nuts ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2009

    Graft and Gaming

    City employees are bleeding the city to death. One way is legal and the other is not.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    SFPUC On the Take, Alleged Bribe-Taker Says

    San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission has long had a "gift policy" in which employees were allowed to accept lavish trips and other presents from suppliers doing business with the city -- or at least that's the claim of a retired city water-meter repairman accused of accepting $13,348 from a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Sweet Job of the Week: LAFCo Seeks Diligent Hall Monitor at $100,000 Salary

    Like Michael Myers, LAFCo can't be stoppedAs we've noted in these pages before, San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) -- a panel of leftist supervisors and their hand-picked enviro allies that influences city energy policy -- is the sort of organization whose existence is only ma ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2009

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

    Like Michael Myers, LAFCo can't be stoppedAs we've noted in these pages before, San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) -- a panel of leftist supervisors and their hand-picked enviro allies that influences city energy policy -- is the sort of organization whose existence is only ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Dumping Improper Crap in an Outhouse Is a Federal Offense. Burning 21 of Them Is Not

    Certainly it's caught your eye -- the ubiquitous notice in most outhouses that "dumping hazardous materials" down the loo is a federal offense. When juxtaposed with the interior of a porta-john, the verb "dumping" and the notion of "hazardous materials" have definitely inspired their share of laughs ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Green Scheme

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2008

    Exhibit B: Good Biofuel or "Dump Your Used Holiday Grease Responsibly - For Free!"

    By Meredith Brody If you fried up a whole lot of latkes (potato pancakes) or sufganyot (doughnuts) for Hanukkah, or sautéed sweet potatoes in oil or fried tamales in lard for Christmas, or maybe the turkey frier you hauled out for Thanksgiving is still lurking in the garage, full of congealed fat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2008

    Burn Green Soiree

    By Meredith Brody If you fried up a whole lot of latkes (potato pancakes) or sufganyot (doughnuts) for Hanukkah, or sautéed sweet potatoes in oil or fried tamales in lard for Christmas, or maybe the turkey frier you hauled out for Thanksgiving is still lurking in the garage, full of congealed fat ... 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 >>

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Public Power Grab

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    SF Government InAction: Summer SanFranSchitzophrenia Begins! We're Saving Water! Use More Water! Keep Elections Safe from Candidates!

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Video: Adam Werbach Describes New Job

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    And the Primary Results are In

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2008

    Shoot 'Em If You Got 'Em: Lake Merced Gun Club In Crosshairs

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    SF Drinking Water Now Without Hormones

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Giant Bourgeois Spider Mounts San Francisco

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    San Francisco Taxi Rates To Rise Pending Health Care Plan: SFGovernmentInAction

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • 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

    March 29, 2006

    Oh, Shit

    Is the San Francisco sewer system in dire need of repair, or is this just another way to get taxpayers' money? Find out where you stand!

  • News

    April 13, 2005

    The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations

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

  • 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

    November 19, 2003

    Derailing the Jaye Train

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

  • News

    August 25, 1999

    When Do Losers Win?

    When Willie Brown is mayor, and one of their limiteds is Angelo Tsakopoulos

  • News

    September 23, 1998

    Fecal Matters

    When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    State and National Candidates

    When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

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