For 3½ years, San Francisco has been embroiled in a lawsuit brought by a wheelchair-bound woman who alleges that The City does not do enough to make its sidewalks, parks, libraries and pools accessible to the disabled.
The class-action lawsuit is set to go to trial next month in a federal court in Oakland. The case does not seek monetary damages, but rather seeks to force The City to spend far more than it currently does on accessibility in its public right-of-ways and public parks. The suit could also cost The City millions in attorney fees, on top of the money already spent defending the case.
The latest cause for pause in enforcement of The City’s controversial sit-lie ordinance? The print shop.
City College of San Francisco trustees want to crack down on contractors who for years have ignored a requisite to — in good faith — hire locally for construction projects.
A 30-year-old clinic named after The City’s most famous lesbian couple has one month to raise $500,000 or else its board of directors will start to pull the plug.
As far as the Burlingame High School boys’ basketball team is concerned, history has repeated itself more than enough. For the second straight year, the Panthers fell to Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Central Coast Section’s Division III championship, a 41-32 loss Saturday. And the Panthers (26-4) are hoping to avoid last year’s fate in the Northern California bracket of the CIF State Championships, where they fell on the road to Miramonte by six points in the opening round in 2010. Burlingame will host its opening-round game this year, a 7 p.m. tipoff on Tuesday against Weston Ranch (26-3) of Stockton.
The new deadline for NFL owners to reach an agreement with the NFLPA is Friday night, and the clock is ticking. In the spirit of compromise, here is an equitable split of the four key negotiating points.
Lorraine Massey, author of “Curly Girl: The Handbook,” will speak at noon Tuesday at Madusalon, 300 Divisadero St., S.F.; at 7 p.m. Tuesday at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland; and at noon Wednesday at Peninsula Beauty in Burlingame.
With shaky foreign energy supplies threatening to deepen the worst recession since World War II, w
The political protests roiling oil-rich countries throughout the Middle East are starting to aff