Dec 16, 2024 · During that time, the lab also exposed San Francisco. When the facility closed in 1969, Atomic Energy Commission inspectors noted “significant radioactive contamination📄” in several buildings, some of which “could not be removed📄.”More than half a century later, as a massive residential development with thousands of planned homes rises close to …

Oct 7, 2024 · This is a nonpartisan analysis of the local measures on the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 5, 2024, election. Short on time? The team at “Civic,” our flagship radio program and podcast, provides brief rundowns of all the local measures:

Dec 12, 2024 · The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a permit that will allow San Francisco to close a section of the Great Highway to car traffic permanently. The permit allows the city to close the roadway to cars between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard — known as the Upper Great Highway — as early as spring 2025.

Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to put Proposition J on the November ballot. In the official proponent letter, signed by all supervisors but Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, they say it would enhance the “transparency and efficiency” of how the city allocates money to help young people.. That would include better tracking of dollars that City Hall gave the San Francisco ...

Nov 10, 2023 · Two children who were violently removed from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home in October 2022 and placed into a court-ordered program to recant parental abuse allegations celebrated a victory last month when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting such programs.. On Oct. 13, Maya, 16, and Sebastian Laing, 12, and their allies celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 331, aka Piqui’s ...

Nov 25, 2024 · The Navy’s San Francisco lab was a major Cold War research facility with a unique focus on “radiological defense,”📄 techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.

Oct 7, 2024 · Independent, Nonprofit, In-Depth Local News. See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a nonpartisan analysis of measures on the San Francisco ballot, for the election occurring Nov. 5, 2024.

Sep 12, 2011 · MEMORIES: It was more like fool's gold, recalls a veteran Bay Area journalist and teacher If there was ever a "Golden Age of Newspapers," it was long before my half century in journalism and if there was, "golden" referred to advertising revenue when newspapers were the primary means of getting out a commercial or personal message. In terms of quality, I don't think there ever was a "Golden ...

Jun 3, 2023 · It has been seven months since Maya Laing and her brother Sebastian, who were 15 and 11 at the time, were violently taken from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home by court order.. Judge Rebecca Connelly, who oversaw their custody case, rejected the siblings’ claims that their mother abused them, and last October she ordered them into reunification training to repair their fractured ...

Dec 2, 2024 · The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut and canvas booties covering their shoes, workers from the Navy’s shipyard at Hunters Point in late 1946 began to board ships irradiated by an atomic bomb test over the summer.