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| 26.04.2024 | Renovated 911 dispatch center seeks better response times | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
San Francisco's emergency management department recently unveiled its revamped 911 dispatch center as it works to improve emergency response times.
Why it matters: Dispatcher response times trended do... |
| 18.09.2023 | How a Parking Lot Became a Panacea for This School District’s Housing Crisis | Shirley Cruz used to pass an old parking lot on her way to and from work.
Adjacent to a former high school, the lot was wasted space back then, she says. Uber and Lyft drivers would congregate there, waiting to get assigned to their next ri... |
| 10.11.2022 | SFO earns highest airport carbon reduction award in U.S. | San Francisco International Airport became the first large airport in North America to earn a high-level carbon accreditation award Wednesday, putting it on track toward its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
If met, this goal would... |
| 29.07.2022 | San Francisco, N.Y. State Declare Monkeypox Public Health Emergencies
Was this page helpful? | FRIDAY, July 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Both San Francisco and New York state declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, as they struggle to gain access to more resources to help contain the spread of the virus.
About 40% o... |
| 29.07.2022 | San Francisco issues monkeypox state of emergency; New York state declares it an "imminent threat" | The city of San Francisco announced a state of emergency Thursday over the growing number of monkeypox cases, while New York state issued a declaration calling the disease an "imminent threat."
San Francisco has 281 cases, out of ... |
| 29.07.2022 | San Francisco, N.Y. State Declare Monkeypox Public Health Emergencies | FRIDAY, July 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Both San Francisco and New York state declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, as they struggle to gain access to more resources to help contain the spread of the virus. About 40 pe... |
| 19.06.2022 | San Francisco Mayor London Breed on meeting her city's challenges | San Francisco's 47-year-old mayor, London Breed, grew up in this city of postcard views, but much of that was not part of her youth. "I grew up in poverty," she said. "I grew up in public housing, so I wasn't really exposed e... |
| 07.01.2022 | artnet : Ireland Will Soon Pay Arts and Culture Workers a Basic Income to Help the Sector Bounce Back From the Pandemic | Politics Ireland Will Soon Pay Arts and Culture Workers a Basic Income to Help the Sector Bounce Back From the Pandemic
Details are still being hammered out ahead of a January 27 deadline.
Eileen Kinsella, January 7, 2022 Minister of Touris... |
| 06.09.2021 | I Made a Life-Altering Business Decision at the Start of the Pandemic, But It Paid Off | September 6, 2021 7 min read
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| 22.08.2021 | The Delta variant has Americans swapping the shopping bag for a seat at the bar this fall | Americans are over shopping. They’d rather drink and eat with friends instead. GLYN KIRK/Getty Images
The Delta variant has tanked optimism in the economic recovery.
Spending slowed down in most categories in June and July, but bar and rest... |
| 24.06.2021 | San Francisco to mandate COVID vaccinations for city workers | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| 03.03.2021 | Texas isn’t the only state lifting COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s how 11 other states and cities are easing lockdowns, despite the CDC insisting that ‘now is not the time.’ | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool
Texas on Tuesday became the largest US state to ease its lockdown restrictions.
Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order that would end all COVID-19 restrictions, includ... |
| 03.03.2021 | Texas isn't the only state lifting COVID-19 restrictions. Here's how 11 other states and cities are easing lockdowns, despite the CDC insisting that 'now is not the time.' | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool
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Texas on Tuesday became the largest US state to ease its lockdown restrictions.
Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order that would end all COVID-19 restricti... |
| 30.01.2021 | San Francisco businesses teeter on the brink after a year of lockdowns, fires and other hurdles | Since lockdowns first hit last March, businesses across the Bay Area — from party supply companies to live music venues — have navigated ever-shifting restrictions to survive a coronavirus-induced plunge in demand.
During the first few week... |
| 26.01.2021 | California lifts coronavirus stay-at-home orders | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| 28.12.2020 | Are Caps On Third Party Delivery Company Fees Enough To Help A Restaurant Industry Reeling From COVID-19? | Certain regions of Canada will see a cap on delivery fees for third party couriers rolling out in coming days. |
| 16.03.2020 | Bay Area counties announce lockdown through April 7 | Six Bay Area counties — San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda — announced a “shelter in place” order. The lockdown, unveiled at a press conference earlier, starts at 12:01 AM Tuesday. It’s not a full lockdow... |
| 16.03.2020 | Coronavirus Updates: Bars, Gyms and Theaters Close Countywide | Los Angeles woke up Monday morning to confront a new reality. Schools are closed. Movie theaters, bars and gyms in the city have been shuttered by order of the mayor. Restaurants are open only for take out and/or delivery. Most offices that... |
| 26.02.2020 | В Сан-Франциско ввели ЧП из-за коронавируса | Александра Кукуть 26 февраля 2020, 09:29 В Сан-Франциско ввели ЧП из-за коронавируса
Власти Сан-Франциско во вторник объявили чрезвычайное положение в связи с эпидемией коронавируса, пишет Business Insider.
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| 26.02.2020 | RSA: What it’s like to attend a tech conference during the coronavirus epidemic | As San Francisco declared a state of emergency and the federal government warned Americans that novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will spread within the US, RSA 2020 still soldiered on at the Moscone Center.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed made... |
| 03.05.2018 | San Francisco is so expensive that people are spending $1 million to live next to a former nuclear-testing site - now some residents are freaking out after learning the surrounding area may still be r... | Melia Robinson/Business Insider
The San Francisco Shipyard may still be contaminated with nuclear radiation.
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The San Francisco Shipyard is one of the last affordable-housing developments in San Francisco. But some homeowners a... |
| 01.02.2018 | San Francisco seeks universal fiber broadband with net neutrality and privacy | Enlarge / Lombard Street in San Francisco.
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| 17.04.2016 | The 3 factors behind Uber and Lyft’s regulatory win in California | Lisa Rayle Contributor
Lisa Rayle is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Onesimo Flores has a Ph.D. in urban planning from MIT and now works in Mexico City.
It’s a common gripe: Outdated r... |
| 03.11.2015 | Airbnb, Proposition F And The Shared Hypocrisy Of Bay Area Housing | In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate ca ... |
| 11.12.2014 | Google chips in $2M to help San Francisco’s homeless | Update on Dec. 16: Corrected Hamilton Family Center’s portion to $1 million, not $1,000,000.
Google is donating $2 million in grants to San Francisco to help the city’s homeless population, the mayor’s office announced today.
The grants go ... |
| 19.07.2014 | San Francisco city government wants to give your data back to you | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has just announced the... |
| 14.07.2014 | The Fate of The 98-Year-Old At The Heart of SF’s Anti-Eviction, Tech Protests Is Still In Doubt | Mary Elizabeth Phillips, the 98-year-old woman who has been at the heart of San Francisco’s ongoing anti-eviction and tech protests, still faces an uncertain future.
After living just a few blocks from Dolores Park for a half-century in the... |
| 25.06.2014 | Net Neutrality Wins Backing of Nation's Mayors | June 25, 2014 3 min read
Net neutrality and a ban on Internet “fast lanes’’ won the backing of the US Conference of Mayors, which unanimously endorsed a resolution Monday urging the Federal Communication Commission forbid "blocking of ... |
| 14.04.2014 | How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) | The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planning and layers of leadership failure — nobody thinks ... |
| 28.02.2014 | Google Sets Example By Trying To Offset Perils Of SF Gentrification | While San Francisco’s gentrification issues aren’t solely caused by the tech boom, the tech industry should aim to help the communities impacted by the influx of money and people it has brought to the city. Yesterday’s donation by Google is... |
| 24.01.2014 | It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way | There is a story being told about us here in the tech industry in San Francisco — that we are entitled, or that we are oblivious. I don’t believe that’s true. Or I don’t believe that it has to be true.
I’m worried that if we do not have a c... |
| 16.12.2013 | After deal with AT&T fizzles, San Francisco builds its own free Wi-Fi | reader comments 48 with 34 posters participating, including story author
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| 21.11.2013 | Celgene collaborates with VC-backed biotech incubator in search of life science innovations | Bayer set up an incubator in San Francisco for biotech startups last year. J&J opened up innovation centers in the U.S. and Europe. In March last year, Merck unveiled the California Institute for Biomedical Research, or Calibr, in San D... |
| 11.06.2013 | SF’s Mayor Lee taps sharing economy startups to prepare city for disaster | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Mayor of San Francisco is using the sharing e... |
| 11.06.2013 | SF’s Mayor Lee taps sharing economy startups to prepare city for disaster | The Mayor of San Francisco is using the sharing economy to prepare the city for disaster.
Today San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee and Board President David Chiu announced a partnership between the city of San Francisco and advocacy organization ... |
| 06.03.2013 | San Francisco’s Bay Bridge becomes a glowing network of Ethernet-enabled LEDs | This still from an animation shows how the lights will look on the bridge-based art installation. reader comments 94 with 61 posters participating, including story author
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| 11.09.2012 | Mayor Ed Lee and Ron Conway plot to keep S.F. the innovation capital of the world | SAN FRANCISCO — Ed Lee and Ron Conway are the ultimate San Francisco power couple. The “tech friendly” mayor and the Silicon Valley investor billionaire have worked together for years to create a city environment that supports innovation an... |
| 19.06.2012 | San Francisco Vs. Silicon Valley: Where Should You Build Your Business? | When Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard in the summer of 2004, he didn’t move his fledgling company to the mountains, or the Gulf of Mexico, or San Francisco, he moved to Silicon Valley. Well, Palo Alto to be precise. In an interview with Y Combi... |
| 14.05.2012 | Techies: Got Questions For SF Mayor Ed Lee? Join Him (And Me) On Google+ | Over the past few months, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has become a familiar face at local startup events — whether it’s at the Crunchie Awards, the opening of Dropbox’s new office, or the NewMe Accelerator Demo Day, where he was interviewed ... |
| 05.05.2012 | San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee On Shifting Tech Hubs Into Urban Centers [TCTV] | In the past year or so since he became the mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee has become a household name of sorts in the Bay Area technology community — no easy feat for an industry that’s known more for forging its own speedy path, rather tha... |
| 25.07.2010 | The (court) case against San Francisco’s cell phone radiation law | reader comments 58 with 46 posters participating
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San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is putting a brave face on the news that big wireless is suing the city over its new cell ... |
| - | San Francisco first US city to intro 100% renewable electricity requirement for commercial buildings | San Francisco has unveiled a plan that would require its largest private commercial buildings to run on 100% renewable electricity, a first in the US.
Mayor London Breed made the announcement on Earth Day, making San Francisco the latest ma... |
| - | See inside California's newest $1.7 million prefab tiny home village erected to help ease Santa Barbara's homelessness crisis | Image Courtesy of Alex Siegel, My Mosaic
Nonprofit Dignitymoves has completed its newest tiny home village designed to shelter unhoused people.
The new 35-room Santa Barbara community cost $1.7 million to build.
In March, the nonprofit unve... |
| - | 17 cities, states, and online funds where struggling small business owners can receive emergency funding | Peathegee Inc/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The SBA's Paycheck Protection Program aimed to provide financing for struggling entrepreneurs.
The SBA has forgi... |
| - | Celgene collaborates with VC-backed biotech incubator in search of life science innovations | Several pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Merck (NYSE: MRK) , and Bayer have been taking steps to infuse their pipelines with new drugs by developing incubators to identify life science innovations that fit... |
| - | San Francisco Mayor Breed says city faces remote work challenge as tech workers leave town or stay home | San Francisco Mayor London Breed told CNBC that there hasn't been an "exodus" from the city, but definitely a big change.
"Most employees want some level of work from home," Breed said, in an interview airing Friday on &... |
| - | San Francisco businesses struggle to hang on as tech workers stay home | The office vacancy rate in San Francisco rose to 24.2% in the second quarter from 23.8% in the prior period, according to CBRE research.
Big tech employers like Salesforce and Google are staying flexible when it comes to bringing people bac... |
