In their letter to the Richmond Review (September 2024), Jane Lew and Heidi Moseson equate the used-to-be Embarcadero Freeway with the Upper Great Highway (UGH). To quote, “…our ocean front continues to be dominated by a four-lane highway.” You’re not making your case here.
In a move that does nothing to promote the businesses of struggling Taraval merchants and will harm homeowners and renters who live along the Lower Great Highway and 48th Avenue, Joel Engardio solicited and received approval from SFMTA to close both lanes of the Lower Great Highway between Ulloa and Santiago on Saturday, Sept. 21, and Oct. 19, for 15 hours – 9 a.m. to midnight – to hold night markets.
I am writing this letter to call attention to a very small individual who is making a very big impact on the feeling of community in the central Richmond District. This small individual happens to be an orange cat named Picasso.
Mr. Shanks’s article makes light of what are serious matters for the future of San Francisco and may even mislead the public into thinking that this is a “done deal” when it is not. There are neighborhood and citywide renters, merchants, homeowners, taxpayers from all walks, the arts, education, construction, healthcare, and IT, organizing to bring, as it were, water to this drought of intelligent, imaginative and caring ideas.
The parking lot is not an off-leash area. Most of the people who bring their dogs keep them on-leash until they are inside the gate. It’s the only considerate thing to do but it seems some owners have no consideration.
This is an important first step for the City to adapt to rising seas, but mother nature’s reclamation of that road gives us an amazing opportunity to transform our oceanfront for more people to enjoy by establishing a new, two-mile long oceanfront park from Lincoln Way to Sloat Boulevard.
He accuses Harris of multiple ethical and legal violations in her ascent to higher office. Although some of those charges might be true, he is missing the bigger picture, which is to elect a Democratic president this November and save our democracy.
What will we have lost if we turn a blind eye to the neglect of SF’s world-renowned Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park? What used to be a pristine, well-cared-for example of horticultural exquisiteness and has become a shabby, clear cut, dried up spectacle of itself.
I’d like to submit a 600-word piece harking back to the Summer of Love, “What a Time To Be Alive,” recounting an amusing vignette about Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the all-but-forgotten perhaps little-known origin of the Janis tree.
Recently, five supervisors, led by D4 Supervisor Joel Engardio and working in partnership with the Great Highway Park and the Bike Coalition, blindsided the taxpaying residents of D4 and D1 with a shocking ballot initiative to close down the Upper Great Highway (UGH) without any input from those who will be negatively affected by such an action.
The recent article about the 1234 Great Highway senior housing project doesn’t accurately define the facility or its function. There will be at least 100 of the units set aside for formerly unhoused homeless people.
Jones K. Wong, PGA HOPE graduate and VFW Life Member, at the newly renovated Golden Gate Park par three golf course, made three holes-in-one shots in San Francisco on May 3 (hole 4), May 15 (hole 6) and on May 20 (hole 1).
The past three years, we cleaned the entire length of Mission Street from the border of Daly City to the Embarcadero. This year, we’re switching it up with our Breakers to Bay All Day Cleanup where we’ll start at Ocean Beach and end at the Ferry Building, cleaning the neighborhoods along Balboa St, Turk St, and Market St.
I read with some dismay, Mr. Kopp’s commentary calling out the “high cost” of public transit. Now, I personally hold Mr. Kopp in high esteem, yet I found his opinion piece to be not only reactionary, but regressive.
Noam Chomsky has astutely commented that America has always been a fear-based society. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in the illogical leaps of thought evident in Jen Nossokoff’s latest “commentary.”
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