SF News New Nuru News: Ex-PUC Chief Found Guilty of Fraud, Disgraced Ex-DBI Inspector Sentenced to Prison The Mohammed Nuru scandal saw two more hammers come down Friday, as former Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was found guilty of fraud, and former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernie Curran was sentenced to a year in prison.
SF News PG&E, PUC Feud Could Be Keeping The Lights Off At Completed Projects Supervisor Jeff Sheehy is accusing PG&E of intentionally dragging its feet in a way that's keeping the lights off at two sites in his district, the newly renovated Randall Museum and
SF News Uber Fined $7.6 Million, Will Pay To Avoid 30-Day Suspension In California A fine recommended by a California administrative law judge last summer from the California Public Utilities Commission is being levied upon Uber, we learn today. As the LA Times reports, while Uber will
SF News Three-Story-Tall Lamp Post Collapses Onto Occupied Car, Urine To Blame According to San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission, a lamp post that toppled over and nearly crushed a driver had been terminally compromised by a most deadly combination: human and dog urine. KTVU reports
SF News 628 Strife: Soon You Must Dial "1" And The Area Code For Every Local Call We've been warning you about this day, and now it's almost here: 415 area codes for San Francisco are almost all gone, and the new new 628 area code is about to go
SF News SF Water Manager Frequently Peed In Reservoir At Work And Won't Be Fired In a display of colossal disrespect for his $111,000-a-year maintenance planner position at the Public Utilities Commission, an adult man frequently urinated in a reservoir that is a source of drinking water
SF News Get Some ID Before You Let That PUC Worker Come In Your House It's kind of scary that when many of us see a person in an "official" looking vest, we assume that the person is actually "official." (Remember this guy?) But that trust is what
SF News Uber's And Sidecar's New Carpooling Services Are Apparently Illegal Ten days after San Francisco Uber users received emails welcoming them to uberPOOL, a recently-launched service from the transportation service intended to allow "Uber riders to share trips with another rider along their
SF News PG&E To Be Fined $1.4 Billion By Public Utilities Commission Over San Bruno Blast [Updated] In the largest ever fine to be imposed by California's Public Utilities Commission, PG&E may be slapped with a $1.4 billion fine for the institutional negligence that led up to
SF News Why Your PG&E Bill Will Be Way Higher This Fall, By The Numbers Starting this fall, your Pacific Gas and Electric will take a leap, and not because you're leaving all the lights on. On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to let the SF-based
SF News Angry Uber Drivers Rally Against The Future Remember when the argument was cabs vs Uber? Well, there's a new player in the game, and Uber's drivers sure don't like it. Sometimes the fall from the cutting edge can be the
SF News Quote of the Day "When people say you're not part of the team, it means they want you to be part of the fan club."