As I write this column, the first half of 2024 is just about over. Each year has its own challenges and this year we have been dealing with rising inflation, stubborn interest rates, the seemingly never-ending battle with crime, homelessness, drugs in San Francisco, and contentious mayoral and presidential races. So, what is the status of our local real estate market now?
Things to do on San Francisco’s west side in July 2024.
They met on the dance floor of the Avenue Ballroom on Taraval Street. Etta Hallock was an instructor, Bill Lafferty a student. She liked Bill because he was not pompous like other men she had met. “He was just Bill.”
Laguna Honda Hospital is finally coming out the other side of a difficult administrative struggle that almost led to shutting it down for lack of funds after federal and state regulators decertified it in 2022.
Recent police activity in the Sunset District.
Unlike a typical Sunset home, Dorothy Weintraub’s garage is not just a parking spot for a car or a stash of retired furniture. Light filters in through the window and the wide-open door, but these beams don’t highlight cobwebs and dust. Instead, they set the walls ablaze with a glow reflected from more than 120 paintings.
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).
Residents of the Sunset and Richmond districts depend on City College of San Francisco for its wide range of courses, programs and the free enrollment provided by the Free City College initiative. However, this vital resource is at risk due to proposed cuts by the City, which could disrupt the educational plans of many.
On March 16, at approximately 12:13 p.m., San Francisco Police officers responded to the area of Ulloa Street and Lenox Way for a solo vehicle collision that crashed into pedestrians at a bus stop at the intersection of Ulloa Street and Lenox Way. On July 2, at approximately 5:15 p.m., TCIU Investigators located Lau at a residence on the 200 block of Crestlake Drive and placed her into custody for the arrest warrant.
Sculptor Leilah Babirye fled Uganda nearly a decade ago out of necessity. Being an LGBTQIA+ activist and a lesbian in a country with life-or-death anti-gay laws was dangerous.
The month of July ushers in two new state laws that I authored – both of which have the goal of making our streets safer.
I don’t know at present whether we can apply that axiom to any of the five major candidates for mayor, but we’ve got irritating practitioners of guile and political pap at City Hall, and I don’t mean Assessor Joaquin Torres, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins – who is a breath of fresh prosecutorial air of the criminal courthouse, 850 Bryant St. – Director John Arntz of the Election Department, Board of Supervisor’s Clerk Angela Cavallo, Controller Greg Wagner and Budget Analyst Fred Broussard, a worthy successor to Harvey M. Rose who has retired but still attends every Board of Supervisors meeting.
The actual operation and management of the 800-space underground garage, however, will go to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) after its board of directors unanimously approved adding $27 million to its existing contract with garage operators.
What is as effervescent as a just-popped bottle of Champagne and as exhilarating as a grand slam? The answer: Richmond District resident Evan Goldstein talking about his two great loves – wine and the San Francisco Giants.
This November, city voters may decide if the Upper Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard will be closed permanently and replaced with an oceanfront park, although opposition to the ballot measure is already forming.
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