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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
That big residential solar project in the Lower Haight / Western Addition / Hayes Valley from SunWheel Energy Partners just went live. The juice, she is flowing.
See all the deets in this 15 minute video - it’s just like being there.
San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Phil “The Thrill” Ting was there for the ribbon-cutting…
…as was District 5 Supervisor Ross “The Boss” Mirkarimi:
San Francisco Affordable Housing Sites Power On Solar Energy
Federal, State and Local Officials, Site Residents and Community Members Celebrate Green Energy and New Jobs at Western Addition Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
San Francisco, CA, January 26, 2010 – On Monday, January 25, 2010, Sunwheel Energy Partners, which provides turnkey solar energy systems for urban and community partners, celebrated the commissioning of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at three affordable housing community sites in San Francisco’s Western Addition and Hayes Valley neighborhoods — bringing solar power, green jobs and financial relief to residents and owners. The ribbon cutting ceremony at Plaza East Apartments was widely attended by a notable group of federal, state and local officials as well as the site’s residents and community members who were hired to install the solar panels.
Dignitaries in attendance included Henry Alvarez, Executive Director, San Francisco Housing Authority; Timothy Alan Simon, CPUC Commissioner; Phil Ting, SF Assessor-Recorder; David Rubin, Director of Service Analysis, PG&E; Michael Carlin, SFPUC Deputy General Manager; Neola Gans, Vice President, SF Housing Authority Commission; Caroline Krewson, Deputy Regional Director, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Stephen Schneller, Director, San Francisco Office of Public Housing; Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco Supervisor; and representatives of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s offices. Senator Mark Leno issued a proclamation commending the site.
Even more deets, after the jump
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The news of the day is bad for California’s lawyers – turns out that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ended up, after a lengthy delay, signing the bill that authorizes the State Bar to collect dues for 2010, so the shysters of the Golden State will now have to fork over big bucks by March 1st. Feel free to theorize about Arnold’s thinking here, but I think it’s safe to say that anyone having anything to do with the Bar Association will think twice before labeling any judicial nominee “unqualified” or “not qualified” or anything like that.
Or else otherwise, this Governor or the next will step on your oxygen tube with the implicit threat of a quick reorganization for your organization. Once you start turning blue, the only sure cure for this kind of political extortion is to get Capital “O” Obsequious but pronto:
“We are grateful to the governor for signing the State Bar 2010 fee bill. He has helped us to focus on issues and matters that are important to the State Bar,” said State Bar President Howard Miller. “We also want to thank the legislative leadership that has been so supportive and forthcoming. This entire period has strengthened the State Bar and given us important missions and goals that we now can actively achieve.”
Fair enough - go forth and sin no more. But speaking of extortion, what about Willie Brown and the California Highway Patrol? We’ll have to travel back four decades for that. See below.
Willie and an admirer in San Francisco’s State Building, from last year:
From UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (formerly eScholarship Editions), it’s
From four decades ago, Chapter 15, Mr. Chairman:
“One afternoon Brown briskly walked into a budget conference committee meeting late and looking angry. He immediately sat down next to [Senator] Collier and asked for a “point of personal privilege.” Collier granted him the courtesy, and Brown asked to return to an item in the budget to appropriate funds to purchase guns and other equipment for the California Highway Patrol. Brown then demanded that the funds be deleted from the budget. The trust between the two was so great that Collier asked no questions, immediately complied, and struck the CHP equipment appropriation.
At the end of the meeting, [aide Robert] Connelly asked his boss what was going on with the Highway Patrol. “He was so mad, he wouldn’t talk about it.” Finally, Brown told Connelly that he had been stopped not once but twice by CHP officers that day on his way to Sacramento from San Francisco along Interstate 80 in his bright red Porsche. Each time, the officers walked over to Brown and said, “Hey, boy, where’d you get this car?”
Connelly quickly found the CHP’s lobbyist and told him what had happened. “The guy’s eyeballs rolled clear back into his skull. He said, ‘We’ll fix it.’” By the next morning, the CHP was distributing photographs of Willie Brown to officers along the Interstate 80 corridor between San Francisco and Sacramento with orders to “memorize this face.” The CHP got its appropriation back—and more.
Brown championed pay raises for CHP officers by authoring a bill that tied their salaries to a formula based on the salaries of large municipal police forces. The measure gave Highway Patrol officers a windfall raise, and then an automatic pay raise every time one of the unionized city forces got a new contract.”
Don’t mess with Texas!
Back in the day when he was still on the road, you’d never see Willie Brown driving a Porsche or an Acura NSX Japanese Ferrari at a speed anything less than 80 on the 80. The respectful officers of the CHP just let him do whatever he wanted.
First the stick, then the carrot – that’s how it works in Sacramento….
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Pity poor Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – tonight he crashed the annual San Francisco Democratic Party Fundraising Gala and Auction at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill and he was rewarded with a loud round of booing.
Poor guy. Did Assemblymember Tom Ammiano spontaneously yell, “You lie” at Arnold, ala Congressman Joe Wilson? Haha!
The evening captured via Francis Tsang’s BlackBerry
Per SF FYI Net:
When: October 7, 2009 – Wednesday
5:30 p.m. Cocktails and Auction
7:00 p.m. Dinner and Program
Where: The Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason Street, San Francisco
What: San Francisco Democratic Party’s Annual Gala Fund Raiser. Many voices – one vision. Funds raised at the gala will directly support voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities to ensure that we elect a Democratic governor in 2010. $150.
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
A large crowd appeared in the Civic Center area today to take part in San Francisco’s 2009 Tea Party Protest. People gathered in front of City Hall and then took it over to the old Federal Building. Denizens of S.F. mostly just ignored this event – the vast majority of these folks live in the Bay Area but not actually in San Francisco.
A few “they terk our jerbs“-types were about, but not too many. And a few Men in Black (and/or dark grey) tried to crash the party, so it seems. Andy Wright offers her thoughts here.
The crowd as it looked early on. I’m estimating 500, all told (“more than 400″ per Amanda Vergel de Dios over at SFSU’s Golden Gate Xpress, and “maybe 500” from Carla Marinucci at the San Francisco Chronicle. Bingo! That’s some good estimating right there.):
“$$ Golden Gate Objectivists $$” promoting AynRandCenter.org. O.K. fine.
The ThunderPower Thun-350 megaphone was not up to the task today. Many could not hear the speakers.
In front of Nancy Pelosi’s office:
The Old Fed Building:
United States of France:
“Illegal Alien (sic) Cost Taxpayers Trillions.” Don’t tread on me:
Obamanomics: Chains we can believe in:
Posing:
A ringleader, leading the parade like the Pied Piper:
Not a fan of Goldman Sachs:
Scikle and hammer:
A Cal alum against pork:
Tri-pointed and raccoon hats were the order of the day:
Teabags everywhere.
Luckily, a “REPORTER” was there. The other side of the paper hat ring had the word “MEDIA”
To Be Continued?
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Well, the 2009 Mad Tea Party Protests are a coming to San Francisco tomorrow at 11:00 AM. Grab your hatter and get over to Civic Center (or the Old Federal Building at Golden Gate and Polk) and get your protest on.
Artist’s conception of what the protest will look like:
via Express Monorail
See you there!
WHERE AND WHEN Civic Center (Plaza) Park.
Corner of McAllister and Polk.
From there, we walk to 450 Golden Gate (one block) to Pelosi’s office.
11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Come for the entire time or part of it; we will be in either of the two locations.
BE PREPARED TO:
–cheer and chant a lot!
–sign the Grievance Scroll (a draft of which is attached)
–register so that I have your name and email for next time (there will be a next time)
SPEAKERS:
Howard Epstein (Chair of SF-GOP) will introduce Dana Walsh and Melanie Morgan will also be speaking.
Tags: 15, 15th, 2009, april, april 15, civic center, house, nancy, nancy pelosi, pelosi, protests, representatives, San Francisco, speaker, tax, tea party
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
It’ll be on this Thursday at UC Hastings School of Law in the Civic Center, because the Hastings Business Law Journal is putting on an all-day symposium: Beyond the Bailout. It’s going to be mega. The Keynote Speaker will be Lynn E. Turner, former Chief Accountant for the SEC, but you’ll also be able to hear from some locals, such as Staff Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle Carolyn Said.
You lawyers might also be able to get some Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit, so why not? Here’s the agenda and there are more deets below.
See you there!
Hastings Business Law Journal Symposium – “Beyond the Bailout”
Start: 4/16/2009 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: 200 McAllister, Alumni Reception Center
You have heard about the credit crisis and the national bailout in the news, now come and listen to esteemed professionals and renowned professors speak on the subject at the Hastings Business Law Journal’s symposium, “Beyond the Bailout: Risk, Responsibility and the Road Ahead”.
Topics that will be addressed include:
- The scope and effects of the crisis on the financial real estate markets both in the U.S. and abroad
- Regulating risk and how regulators failed to make credit-rating agencies, banks, and securities firms rein in their risk before the crisis
- How to bring values to Wall Street to reduce corruption and fraud
- Innovation and the resurgence of the Bay Area and beyond
We have the privilege of hosting Mr. Lynn Turner, the former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the keynote speaker. Turner recently testified at the congressional hearing on the collapse of AIG.
Come with your questions and expect a fresh, intellectual, and multi-faceted discussion of the economic crisis.
Lunch and snacks will be served. Please click here to view the entire program, including a detailed list of speakers and more.
NOTE: MCLE credit available!
Speakers
Keynote Speaker Lynn E. Turner, former Chief Accountant for the SEC
Professor Jo. Carrillo – UC Hastings Law
Professor Joel Paul - UC Hastings Law
Professor Heather Field – UC Hastings Law
Ms. Rhyen Cooms - Photographic Journalist
John Hunt – UC Berkeley, Research Director and Law Fellow
Professor Reza Dibadj – USF Law School, author of “Rescuing Regulation”
Professor Talbot – USF Law School, Director of Center of Investor Justice
Carolyn Said – Staff Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Denise Kleinrichert – San Francisco State University: Graduate School of Business,
Professor Bruce McNamara – UC Hastings Law, Partner and head of the Corporate Governance and Transactions practice at Perkins Coie
Professor Ward Hanson – Policy Forum Director of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Mr. Rob LaFave – Chief Executive Officer of Foodzie
Ilya Spivak – Currency Analyst at Forex Capital Markets
Tags: 200 mcallister, 2009, accountant, april, bailout, Beyond the Bailout, chief, college of law, credit, hastings, keynote, lynn turner, mcle, professor, Securities and Exchange Commission, speaker, UC, university of california
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
That award would have to go to the official seal of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Click to expand:
Sam the Eagle has his talons sunk into the Earth’s northern polar region and he aint letting go.
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Perhaps this morning’s annoucement about funding for the hazardous Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge might be a tad premature, but assistance from federal stimulus is “expected” so that’s cause enough for celebration in today’s economy. And, we’ll get started sooner rather than later:
“Today Mayor Gavin Newsom and Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined regional leaders in announcing that construction to replace Doyle Drive, the main southern approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, will be expedited by Caltrans and save taxpayers $90 million dollars. Construction on the project is now slated to begin this year, instead of the originally scheduled date of 2010.”
So, take a look at today’s event and read the deets below.
This is Doyle Drive – see the blissfully unaware tourists waving to the crowd? Like the Bay Bridge, this thing isn’t ready for the next big earthquake. Click to expand:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the aging viaduct that’s not long for this world…
…along with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom:
Jake McGoldrick brought a prop from his shed to show the Feds how “shovel-ready” this project is:
The whole affair had a party-like atmosphere with numerous local pols, such as Senator Mark Leno, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell…
…and Supervisor Bevan Dufty:
The United States Park Police, avec dog and pony, were on hand to pose near the Golden Gate Bridge:
Will Doyle Drive get fixed before this tyke gets into driver’s training?
We can only hope.
SPEAKER PELOSI AND MAYOR NEWSOM ANNOUNCE DOYLE DRIVE PROJECT IS SHOVEL
READY; STIMULUS INVESTMENT TO BE EXPEDITED
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today Mayor Gavin Newsom and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
joined regional leaders in announcing that construction to replace Doyle
Drive, the main southern approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, will be
expedited by Caltrans and save taxpayers $90 million dollars. Construction
on the project is now slated to begin this year, instead of the originally
scheduled date of 2010.
“With California receiving a nearly $2.6 billion share of highway funding
under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we have another
significant opportunity to move the new Presidio Parkway closer to becoming
a reality,” Speaker Pelosi said. “Together, we will build not only a new
bridge, but a new opportunity for job creation and economic recovery here
in San Francisco.”
“The Doyle Drive Replacement project has been a vision for more than 15
years, and because of the strong regional commitment to partner and
prioritize this critical infrastructure project, it is now a reality,” said
Mayor Newsom. “This project is shovel ready and a signature example of how
the federal stimulus can close the funding gap, stimulate the economy,
improve transportation, and create jobs in San Francisco.”
In the past year, the region has worked together to fill the funding gap in
the reconstruction project. Last January, the anticipated shortfall was
over $400 million. The reduction is in part, a result of redirected
federal earmarks, $90 million in savings from expediting the project, and
the State share of federal stimulus funds.
Doyle Drive on U.S. 101 traverses the Presidio of San Francisco and serves
as the southern approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. This badly
deteriorated structure is designated a Post Disaster Recovery Route and is
the only link between the San Francisco peninsula and northern California
counties. The project will replace this aging facility with a new parkway
connecting San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Presidio of San
Francisco, which is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The
project features six travel lanes plus an eastbound auxiliary lane between
the Park Presidio interchange and a new Presidio access at Girard Road.
The Federal Highway Administration issued a Record of Decision on the
environmental document for the Doyle Drive Replacement Project in December
2008. Due to its importance, the City and County of San Francisco, the
San Francisco Transportation Authority (SFCTA), and the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC) have partnered with the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) and the State of California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) to advance a project to improve seismic,
structural, and traffic safety along Doyle Drive. The implementation plan
is the result of about 15 years of planning, studies and negotiations.
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Here’s San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell TCB (Taking Care of Business) on a weekend trying to sort through issues relating to Speaker of the the House Nancy Pelosi and the Golden Gate Bridge. But what’s this – a vibrant Barack Obama leather handbag? Let’s take a closer look:
Is that a Coach Leatherware brass grommet? It seems to be:
Why doesn’t Coach follow the lead of Ben & Jerry’s and Southwest Airlines and make a million of these? They’d sell well.
FTW
Tags: barack, City Hall, coach, doyle drive, for the win, ftw, Golden Gate Bridge, handbag, house, leather, leatherware, nancy pelosi, obama, presidio, purse, San Francisco, sophie maxwell, speaker, Supervisor, trust
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Despite our crippled credit market, all systems are go in the Presidio as Building 1801, aka the Public Service Health Hospital, is now being transformed from an abandoned hulk into 154 apartments.
Two ugly, tacked on wings having “no historical value” are coming down right now, so it seems grafitti artists will have to find a new Yelp-rated place to play. Read all about it, and don’t forget to check out the comments from some of the more radical NIMBYS.
The future is now – adaptive reuse is coming to Building 1801 courtesy of ForestCity, which is going for Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) status on this project. Click to expand:
Dan Bernal, District Director for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom with Presidio Trust Executive Director Craig Middleton and Holly Middleton:
HERE BE DRAGONS – in this case it’s just a Caterpillar with MP-30 Primary Pulverizer Jaws. Hic sunt dracones:
Follow the progress of demolition here.
There’s tons of stuff going on at the Presidio these days. Check the calendar from the Presidio Trust here.
Excelsior! Ever Upward!
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