CSFN

05/13/2026

https://youtu.be/xRyjD0TXDE4?si=YH_148I9LyQRpiln

Unknown video producer gave us a picture of the changing skylines in SF as predicted by the upzoning plans in 1992.

05/13/2026

History is going on in smoke every day and San Francisco doesn't care to keep its past alive.

By Amanda Bartlett : sfgate – excerpt (audio) San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain caught fire as it was being disassembled on Wednesday morning, sending plumes of smoke into the sky as flam…

05/12/2026

SF affordable-housing fee cuts weren’t enough to spur residential construction

By Patrick Hope : sfexaminer - excerpt District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, and running against Scott Wiener, author of the sone of the most aggressive upzoning bills, said: “I am interested in doing everything we can to unlock the housing that’s already in the pipeline.” Amid rising construction and financing costs, the tax and fee incentives adopted in 2023 by San Francisco in an effort to spur housing construction weren’t enough to reverse the decline in The City’s residential building activity, according to ...

By Patrick Hope : sfexaminer – excerpt District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, and running against Scott Wiener, author of the sone of the most aggressive upzoning bills, said: “I am interested in…

05/02/2026

Mission District’s landmark Thrift Town building gets new life

by IRYNA HUMENYUK : missionlocal - excerpt So many people love this building that was once home to a lot of artists and makers, before they called them makers Photo from foundsf.org, a digital history of San Francisco from 2010. After 22 years of operating on Valencia Street, the nonprofit Mission Action is expanding into the former Thrift Town location at 2101 Mission St....

https://artistinterviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/mission-districts-landmark-thrift-town-building-gets-new-life/

by IRYNA HUMENYUK : missionlocal – excerpt So many people love this building that was once home to a lot of artists and makers, before they called them makers Photo from&n…

05/02/2026

https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/s-f-supervisors-past-and-present-arrested-at-sfo-anti-ice-protest/

Board President Rafael Mandelman and congressional candidate Supervisor Connie Chan among those arrested at May Day protest.

04/29/2026

SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE BLOCKS PG&E BREAKUP BILL

By Megan Stephens : davisvanguard - excerpt SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Sen. Scott Wiener’s effort to give cities like San Francisco a clearer path to cut ties with PG&E stalled this week after the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee failed to advance SB 875, legislation aimed at reforming the state process for creating local public utilities. SB 875 would have sought to unrig what supporters described as a broken California Public Utilities Commission process that prevents cities like San Francisco from leaving PG&E and forming their own public utilities....

04/28/2026

The arts need support — City Hall is giving them uncertainty

Max Blue,| Special to The Examiner : sfexaminer - excerpt (audio track) One of the posters supporting Proposition X to protect the artists work spaces. Déjà vu. it begins again. San Francisco’s arts agencies are on the verge of a major restructuring that might affect how the arts are governed by The City. At a time when local galleries are shuttering…...

Max Blue,| Special to The Examiner : sfexaminer – excerpt (audio track) One of the posters supporting Proposition X to protect the artists work spaces. Déjà vu. it begins again. San Francisco…

04/24/2026

East Bay city hits pause on data center development

By TRD staff : therealdeal - excerpt Electricity and water requirements prompt council vote for temporary ban Oakley, a city in Contra Costa County, has become the first municipality in the Bay Area city to impose a temporary ban on new data centers. The Oakley City Council’s unanimous vote for a 45‑day moratorium halts all new land‑use applications for data centers, giving officials time to evaluate their long‑term impact, the…...

04/21/2026

Inside the fight to protect New Deal art from a Trump administration sale

By Sarah D. Wire : usatoday - excerpt One of the many murals inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building WASHINGTON − Mary Okin has never walked along the green marble hallways of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building. She's never seen the irreplaceable series of murals by prominent American artists that hang inside as a testament to the New Deal in a building once intended to house the Social Security Administration....

By Sarah D. Wire : usatoday – excerpt One of the many murals inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building WASHINGTON − Mary Okin has never walked along the green marble hallways of the Wilbur …

04/18/2026

How Taxes work

For the billionaires You may choose to download the below link or not. It is a verbal description of a visit to one of the Freeports where art is stored: And how taxes work for most of us: Tax Hole in My Pocket by Tommy D Now

For the billionaires You may choose to download the below link or not. It is a verbal description of a visit to one of the Freeports where art is stored: And how taxes work for most of us: Tax Hole…

04/17/2026

Cities scramble to comply with or fight major state housing law

By Ben Christopher : calmatters - excerpt For California’s local governments hoping to have some say over where and how large apartment buildings get packed near major transit stops, it’s crunch time. Last fall, state lawmakers made it legal for developers to build mid-rises — some as tall as nine stories — in major metro neighborhoods near train, subway and certain dedicated bus stops....

By Ben Christopher : calmatters – excerpt For California’s local governments hoping to have some say over where and how large apartment buildings get packed near major transit stops, it’s cru…