Archive for the ‘SFT News’ Category

Help Us Celebrate Jane Morrison

March 17th, 2020 3 Comments »

Does hanging out at home have you climbing the walls?  Is social distancing getting you down?  Then we have a project for you – one that you can accomplish without leaving your home! As some of you are aware, our long-time president […]

Update on the City’s Response to the Climate Emergency

February 2nd, 2020 1 Comment »

In mid-December, SF Climate Emergency Coalition sent a second letter to the Mayor and Supervisors, signed by 11 organizations including SFT, about why all-electric buildings are essential to achieving the City’s climate emergency goals. Supervisor Mandelman’s ordinance incentivizing developers to […]

Yes on E – Putting Affordable Housing First

January 17th, 2020 No Comments »

Proposition E on the March 3rd ballot provides an update to Proposition M, passed in 1986, that created a cap on new high-rise office development. That cap helped insulate San Francisco against recession in the 1990s and early 2000s.  In […]

2019 Holiday Party

December 5th, 2019 No Comments »

Please consider joining us at SF Tomorrow’s Annual Holiday Party, held this year on Wednesday, December 11 from 5:30 to 7:30PM at the Forest Hill Clubhouse, 381 Magellan Ave. We have a lot to celebrate! New progressive leadership, strong support […]

Correction

October 25th, 2019 No Comments »

Our recent newsletter attributed a memorial of Mary Anne Miller to Kathy Howard.  In fact, the author was Supervisor Aaron Peskin.

November 2019 Endorsements

September 25th, 2019 No Comments »

District 5 supervisor:  Dean Preston Prop A, housing bond:  No position Developers & Big Tech should be paying more. Prop B, renaming Agency for Aging and Adult Services:  Ok Prop C, vaping ban repeal:  No The opposite of what it […]

Monarch Butterfly in Decline

April 30th, 2019 No Comments »

Monarch butterflies overwintering in Pacific Grove, CA. Joanna Gilkeson/USFWS Why the butterfly is in decline Numerous natural disasters have happened simultaneous throughout the United States and Mexico, causing the Monarch butterfly to be in serious decline and near extinction. Currently, […]

The robbery occurring in SF transit planning

April 10th, 2019 No Comments »

Governor Gavin Newsom‘s statements earlier this year regarding high-speed rail (HSR) not terminating in San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center put into rather sharp focus the lack of vision and concern on the part of politicians for prior promises made to the […]

San Francisco Declares a Climate Emergency

April 4th, 2019 No Comments »

At its April 2nd meeting, San Francisco Supervisors unanimously passed Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s Climate Emergency Resolution: the first step in a chain of collaborations intended to speed up and strengthen the City’s and the region’s just transition to a fossil-free, […]

Mary Anne Miller

March 17th, 2019 3 Comments »

by Supervisor Aaron Peskin Colleagues, I am very saddened by the recent passing of my dear friend and a ferocious neighborhood advocate, Mary Anne Miller. Over two weeks ago, she had a nasty fall at her house, and was hospitalized […]