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Nov 3, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastAlthough most media coverage of San Francisco’s upcoming elections has focused on big money donors like Ron Conway and others, a sampling of who is giving smaller donations of less than $500 each also tells a story. In the Richmond District, the two leading candidates for supervisor, incumbent Connie Chan and third-time challenger Marjan Philhour, have been raising money from very different sources to fund their respective campaigns.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastEfforts by State Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed to rapidly increase the City’s housing supply are getting roasted by advocates, activists and politicians concerned about land speculators fattening their portfolios at the expense of small business owners and residential tenants.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastThe latest plans for the massive building projects on the Parnassus campus of the University of California San Francisco were made public recently, amid neighborhood concerns about noise and pollution as construction is already well along.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastSan Francisco’s legacy small business owners might get some eviction protection if legislation now before the Board of Supervisors that temporarily exempts them from the mayor’s plan to ‘streamline’ the business permit approval process passes.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastAs if a suspected arsonist torching the Great Wall Hardware store on Taraval Street were not bad enough, within a week, burglars ransacked the business three times, making it that much harder for the owner Albert Chow to recover. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed that their Arson Task Force is now investigating the fire set in the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 25.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastThe debate over the fate of the Upper Great Highway (UGH) between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard continues, with public radio station KALW recently hosting a forum on Aug. 20 at its downtown studio about Proposition K, a November ballot measure to permanently ban private motor vehicle traffic with the expectation of eventually turning it into an oceanfront park.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastMore than 100 people lined the steps in front of City Hall on July 23 to protest against permanently closing the Upper Great Highway for motor vehicle traffic between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard. A ballot measure is slated to go before San Francisco voters in November which, if passed, would prohibit cars, with a stated goal of ultimately converting the space into an oceanfront park.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
housing By Thomas K. PendergastPlans for 216 new residential units to house low-income senior citizens are moving forward and a team of architects has been selected to design a seven-story building between La Playa Street and Great Highway at Lincoln Way. The new housing will replace a three-story motel called the Rodeway Inn and Suites near Ocean Beach and next to Golden Gate Park.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastLaguna 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. Last month, the San Francisco Department of Public Health announced the hospital and rehabilitation center were approved for Medicare recertification, the final step in making sure they stay open.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
richmondsunsetnews.com | Thomas K. Pendergast
By Thomas K. PendergastThis 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.
