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 3-Minute Interview: Lynn Fritz
The director of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Fritz Institute was awarded the first University of San Francisco California Prize for Service and the Common Good. Fritz will be honored at a dinner tonight.
Empty noise from $2.1M sirens
The City’s $2.1 million emergency siren network features a public-address system that is supposed to tell the public what is wrong and how to respond. Unfortunately, when the 77 sirens are tested each Tuesday at noon, the system’s speakers follow up with an announcement that sounds like, “Tngrr mzzbrrf *&$ gkrnmp%# sksxmorgw *#^@$” etc., etc.
Conservationists struggle to save rare California wetland
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, the fragile salt marshes at the mouth of the Tijuana River are clinging to life as one of the last vestiges of undeveloped California coast, where tall grasses sway gently in the breeze and rare birds stop to nest.  Conservationists struggle to save rare Calif. wetland
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, the fragile salt marshes at the mouth of the Tijuana River are clinging to life as one of the last vestiges of undeveloped California coast, where tall grasses sway gently in the breeze and rare birds stop to nest.
Sirens yet to make themselves heard
When the clock strikes noon on Tuesdays in The City, the air-raid sirens fire up but are then followed by a garbled message that sounds not unlike Charlie Brown’s mother.
San Francisco hires Rex Walters as new basketball coach
San Francisco lured former NBA player Rex Walters away from Florida Atlantic to take over its struggling basketball program. |