SF News Feds and State Both Sue SF, Claiming the City Lets Sewage Spill Into the Ocean and the Bay The EPA, state Attorney General, and SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board just dropped a combined lawsuit onto the City of San Francisco, claiming the city has allowed “more than 1.8 billion gallons of untreated sewage” to flow each year into the Bay and Pacific Ocean
SF Politics Ex-SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Sentenced to Four Years In Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Corruption Scandal Former SF Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for fraud charges, after he was found guilty of taking bribes and giving phony information on a bank loan application.
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 SF May Own Its Own Electrical Grid By Buying It From Bankrupt PG&E San Francisco leaders have been thinking about this for a while, and now the city has offered PG&E $2.5 billion to purchase its SF electrical grid.
SF News San Francisco's Tap Water Reigns Surpeme Although last week's test on the American tap water by chemists claims to have detected the sex hormone estradiol -- found such vertebrate animals as birds, reptiles, and fish -- a more recent
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."
SF News Leal Voted Out As SFPUC Chief, Receives $400K Without providing an answer for firing San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Susan Leal, the SFPUC officially sacked her this morning after a nine-minute closed door City Hall meeting. As part of her
SF News Susan Leal, Pink-Slipped? Although her contract ends in 2009, former SF Mayoral candidate and current San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Susan Leal might get the ax, according to Cecilia M. Vega over at the Chronicle.
SF News I'm Your Turbine Lover What was announced was the usual first steps in any sort of big thing-- doing a study and forming a committee. So Leal announced that money is being set aside for a study
SF News When it Rains, It Pours The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning residents in low lying areas that the expected rain for this and next weeks may lead to property damage and flooding. The PUC has mobilized
