Letters

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (381+ words) Following a long history of fires, flaring and pollution at the Martinez refinery and a nearby Renewable Energy Facility, community members aired their concerns on Thursday and asked what’s being done to protect their health. About 100 people from across Contra…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (884+ words) An aerial view of Dana Point Marina. Rows of colorful boats, the jetty running alongside the marina and the coastline on a sunny summer day. After decades of meetings and plenty of hand-wringing, the mayor of the upscale Orange County…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (247+ words) Sausalito voters will decide this November whether to strip themselves of a four-decade-old power: the right to personally approve zoning changes along the city's waterfront. Measure X, formally titled the Arts, Industrial & Maritime Preservation and Improvement Initiative, appears on the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1094+ words) In the backyard of his rainbow-painted house on San Francisco's Clipper Street, Sam Geffner built a sanctuary. Gently curving stone steps lead up to a meditation room tucked into the hillside that slopes up behind the Noe Valley home he…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (379+ words) Precita House, a new San Francisco home by Ryan Leidner, combines cocooning and a desert building sensibility; we take the tour Set in a cosy, friendly pocket of San Francisco, Precita House is a residence designed around light, explains its…...