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San Francisco Chronicle: Court Asks for Obama's Stance on Healthy S.F.10/5/09 - The U.S. Supreme Court delayed action today on employer fees in San Francisco's groundbreaking health care program and instead sought advice from the Obama administration, even as the president struggles to overhaul health coverage nationwide. Read the story... |
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Sacramento Bee: S.F. Renters Get Set to Join Mandatory Composting Effort10/4/09 - With just 17 days to go before the nation's first mandatory composting law goes into effect here, most of the eye-rolling is over. Read the story... |
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Los Angeles Times: San Francisco Has Its Own 'Public Option'10/3/09 - Over the last two years, three-quarters of San Francisco's uninsured adults have enrolled in a public program that guarantees access to medical services, an effort that is being touted as a national model during the rancorous debate over healthcare reform. Read the story... |
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San Francisco Business Times: Nektar to Move HQ to Mission Bay10/2/09 - Nektar Therapeutics Inc. will shift its headquarters and 150 employees to San Francisco after taking 102,283 square feet of office space in Mission Bay originally intended for Pfizer Inc. Read the story... |
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AFP: San Francisco Tapping Into Tech-Savvy Citizens10/2/09 - San Francisco is letting citizens create software tools to exploit city data for the public good. Read the story... |
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New York Times: San Francisco Plan Promotes Urban Wind Power9/30/09 - Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) unveiled plans yesterday for installing turbines on rooftops around the city, with a goal of commercializing small-scale wind power and bringing down the cost of renewable electricity. Read the story... |
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Golden Gate [X]Press: Healthy SF a Public Healthcare Model9/30/09 - While politicians, the media and every American wonders how a public health care option will work, an example lies right here in San Francisco. Read the story... |
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San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco Tilts Toward Wind Power9/29/09 - The two famous windmills in Golden Gate Park could soon have a lot of company as a broad array of city officials, business leaders and environmentalists push for streamlined, modern versions to spring up at famous spots all over the city. Read the story... |
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San Francisco Chronicle: Market Street Traffic Experiment Starts Tuesday9/28/09 - San Francisco's new experiment to remake Market Street starts Tuesday when restrictions on private automobiles take effect. Read the story... |
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Financial Times: San Francisco Joins App Stores Galore9/25/09 - Gavin Newsom, the city’s trendy Twittering mayor, guest-posted on the Mashable blog on Friday. He announced the launch of the DataSF App Showcase, "a City App Store to highlight and centralize programs created from City data." Read the story... |
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San Francisco Chronicle: Tax Soda to Produce Health9/20/09 - As for the charge that soda is only one of the major factors contributing to our obesity epidemic, that's true. But the fact that tobacco use is only one of the factors contributing to cancer doesn't mean that we don't tax it for the same reason we should tax soda - when individual people smoke too much, it has an outsize impact on the collective public health. More public officials should follow Newsom's lead. Read the story... |
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New York Times: Is the Employer Mandate a Job Killer? Not in San Francisco9/18/09 - That is the conclusion reported by National Public Radio, in a story that aired Tuesday morning. The piece was about a program called Healthy San Francisco, which offers uninsured residents access to a network of neighborhood clinics that emphasize preventive and coordinated care. Read the story... |
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