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Entries from SFist tagged with 'pge'

August 21, 2008

Current San Francisco Mayor, possible future Governor of California, and still-lost-inside-Siebel's-sugar-walls honeymooner Gavin Newsom is throwing some sort of party at the Denver Democratic National Convention. It's cloyingly called Unconventional 08, molded for "generation Obama" (good grief), and rumor is there will be enough hookers and blow for everyone. (We expect a full report on the shwag grab from Paul Hogarth the moment it ends!) Oh, and the party's top sponsors? MoveOn, AT&T, and......

Continue Reading "Newsom Throws Party at DNC, Sponsors Called Into Question"

June 24, 2008

Photo by KatyG/Flickr Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California and Drumm streets is disrupting regular cable car service on the California line," read a Muni alert. "Service will be provided by bus shuttles. The 1-California and the 41-Union are switching back at Clay and Drumm streets in both directions.......

Continue Reading "PG&E Vault Explosion In Downtown SF"

January 28, 2008

A PG&E plant in the process of being torn down collapsed and killed a worker and injured two others today. Earlier this afternoon in an abandoned Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power plant in Bayview-Hunter's Point, workers who had been hired by the utility leviathan to remove the large boiler "had tied cables to the boiler, but it collapsed prematurely, raining debris down upon the workers." The five-story-tall walls of the power plant caved in,......

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