SF News Mohammed Nuru’s Ex-Girlfriend Sandra Zuniga Gets Probation, Not Jail, For Laundering His Bribe Money SF’s former head of the Office of Neighborhood Services Sandra Zuniga, also known as “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI’s Mohammed Nuru indictment, will skate with just three years probation after a very favorable sentencing Thursday.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News Photos: One of 24th Street’s Largest Ficus Trees Has Been Reduced to Sawdust and a Stump What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Works Sandbag Giveaway Resumes As Reinforcements Arrive Mayor Breed is getting some grief over storm preparedness, two below-ground theater venues found themselves completely flooded, and Public Works is handing out sandbags again after they ran out on Wednesday.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
SF News SF Public Works Will (Finally!) Clean Off Building Graffiti and Tagging For Free In a long-overdue move, SF Public Works will stop charging small businesses and building owners for having graffiti on their buildings, and instead come out and clean off the tagging for free.
SF News Behold! Your $20,000 Trash Cans Have Arrived In SF and Are Now At Your Disposal Your designer-label “smart” trash bins finally hit the streets of SF this week after a year of mockery over their exorbitant cost, and you can submit your thoughts on them — with a smartphone-enabled QR code of course.
SF News City Awards $2 Million to Family of 67-Year-Old Woman Killed by Public Works Truck Rui Xia Zhen was hit and killed by a Public Works truck in March 2020. Nearly two years later, her family finally has a settlement from the city.
SF News Petition Demands More Public Toilets For Homeless In The Tenderloin San Francisco is home to roughly 7,000 homeless residents, and, just like the rest of us, those individuals need to use the restroom. Instead of griping about this fact and blaming the
SF News Video: Tron-Like 3D Market Street Map Created By Laser Truck This past Sunday saw a strange sight, even by Market Street standards, when a laser-equipped motorcade made its sluggish way down Market Street. But perhaps you missed the LiDAR truck, which needed the
SF News SF Hiring 'Potty-Sitters' To Monitor Public Toilets At $100,000 Per Toilet San Francisco's public restroom wrongdoers are being put on notice by a group of "potty-sitters," as the Chronicle calls these new hires who are being paid up to $16 an hour to make
Arts & Entertainment Behold 'Sweepy,' SF Public Works' Terrifying Mascot Sweepy's in the house for #SFPride2015 @GiantSweep Are you ready to march and celebrate? And keep SF beautiful? pic.twitter.com/zLiHcIpXVT— SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) June 28, 2015 According to a tweet