Unsurprisingly, the year-in-SF-transit, 2020, has been a bleak one. Ridership has fallen off the cliff, and service cuts and mass layoffs are anticipated. Steep budget cuts will hobble the agency’s ability to recover from the effects wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Benchmarks such as the City Chartered mandate for 85% on time Muni performance have […]
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All politics begin locally: A tutorial
How does California actually get candidates who run for elections and who, when elected, will affect our daily lives in profound ways? It’s both a democratic and a sausage-making process. But there’s a way we can impact the election process at the local level. Here is an example of how both major parties, Democrats […]
Winter 2020 Glen Park News Online
The Winter 2020 edition of the Glen Park News is ready for your digital reading pleasure! Log-on for your socially distanced, COVID-safe reading on: Bus-only lanes coming to Glen Park The latest news on the Detroit Street Steps and mural project, and Updates from Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and the Glen Park School PTO As with […]
Follow up on murder of Leo Hainzl
As 2020 draws to a close, and none too soon, you will remember another horrible event of the year–the murder of 94-year old Glen Park resident, Leo Hainzl, as he walked his dog outside Glen Canyon Park on Memorial Day morning. The alleged perpetrator is Peter Rocha, a homeless man who frequented the neighborhood and […]
The J Train is Back!
Woo hoo! But remember — the J now ends at Church and Duboce. Click here to learn more
Picture this: The Detroit Street steps with amazing tile work
The Detroit Steps Project continues making giant strides. Launched on November 3, 2018, the multi-year and multi-phase community-led beautification project, with an objective of fashioning 186 stairs with either mosaic or colored tiles, has taken another significant step towards its goal with the inauguration of the “2020 Drawing Contest.” “The contest is to derive imaginative […]
GPA Quarterly Mtg Jan 28
Glen Park Association Winter Meeting January 28, 2021, 7 to 9 p.m. Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 842 4961 2175 Passcode: 843562 Proposed Agenda: Officer elections (slate to come in January meeting reminder — please renew to vote!) Update from District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Department of Public Health to discuss vaccine rollout in SF (unconfirmed) […]
Update: SF Assessor announces resources on Prop. 19
Today the SF Assessor’s office held a virtual informational session to inform San Franciscans about resources to help in understanding the implications of California Prop. 19, commonly known as the “Realtor’s Measure.” Prop. 19 will replace and bring changes to two statewide property tax saving programs: the parent-child transfer exclusion (effective February 16, 2021) and […]
Assessor Carmen Chu to announce Prop. 19 outreach effort
Launching one-stop shop resource page and webinar series to help families be prepared (multilingual resources available) WHAT: In November, California voters passed Proposition 19 which makes changes to property tax benefits for families, seniors, severely disabled persons, and victims of natural disaster in our state. In response, the San Francisco Assessor’s […]
Drive-by shooting at Sussex and Diamond leaves one man with non-life-threatening injuries
A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Sunday in Glen Park left a man with non-life-threatening injuries and Diamond street blocked for several hours as police investigated. Officers arrived on the scene and found an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. The victim was transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. No […]