Big Change Coming To SF Schools


In a city that celebrates delayed food, it was usually a matter of time before a students had entrance to healthy, uninformed meals.

The San Francisco Unified School District rolls out a new dining module Monday when it starts portion food constructed by Oakland’s Revolution Foods in a cafeterias. The association prides itself on portion high-quality, “never frozen” products with an importance on nutrition. Read: toasted soy nuts instead of tater tots and sesame duck salad instead of salisbury steak.

Revolution kick out Illinois-based Preferred Meal Systems, that has been providing dishes to a city’s open schools given 2003, when SFUSD put a $9 million hit adult for bid final fall. Preferred dish systems responded by suing a district on a drift that a contract’s new target didn’t have a believe or ability for a job.

But a San Francisco Superior Court decider ruled in Revolution’s favor, and a new dishes will be accessible as planned.

In sequence to sufficient ready for a new assignment, that involves portion 33,000 dishes to 114 schools any day, a association hired 40 new workers.

Revolution Foods has been portion Oakland’s open propagandize complement given a first in 2006.

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  • The No Wieners Club

    Since a impulse someday in a mid-1960s when San Francisco astonishing became “San Francisco,” a city has been synonymous with regulating a physique as a form of personal expression. But when a organisation of guys started both literally and figuratively unresolved out in a Castro’s singular many manifest open space on a circuitously daily basis, many of neighborhood’s residents called for a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/san-francisco-bans-public-nudity_n_2165847.html”citywide anathema on open nudity/a.

    The question, both ludicrously nonsensical and pestilent serious, ran right to a heart of a city’s really identity: where do a rights of a particular nudist finish and a public’s common wish not to see old-man testicles begin?

    Ultimately, a army of what some labeled “conservatism” won out. Now, if someone wants to go out in public, they improved be certain their genitals are covered.

    (Excepting, of course, situations where it’s strictly “appropriate” to go sans underwear, like festivals and travel fairs. This is still San Francisco, after all.)

    em- Aaron Sankin/em

  • Frothing Orange And Black

    Oh, San Francisco Giants. Oh, you. While a team’s 2012 World Series brush wasn’t emquite/em as sparkling as a 2010 first-time-in-56-years win, that didn’t stop this city from forward into screaming, cheering, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/san-francisco-riots-giants-world-series_n_2036551.html” target=”_hplink”Muni-bus destroying/a, seething black-and-orange madness. And in loyal Giants torture-style, a boys delivered copiousness of excitement.

    First there was a ancestral NL Division Series, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/buster-posey-grand-slam-giants-reds-nlds-game-5_n_1959199.html” target=”_hplink”starring a Buster Posey grand slam/a. Then there was a NL Championship series, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/barry-zito-world-series-san-francisco-giants_n_2015529.html” target=”_hplink”with an astonishing save by Barry Zito/a. And finally, adding insult to injury, there was a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/28/giants-world-series-2012-tigers-matt-cain_n_2036443.html” target=”_hplink”the World Series/a: an epic, embarrassing, Motor City soul-crushing sweep.

    Next came a (seemingly inevitable) travel demonstration that fast got out of hand, followed by a family-friendly parade, to that Sergio Romo donned a shirt that review “a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/31/sergio-romo-sports-illegal_n_2052086.html” target=”_hplink”I usually demeanour illegal/a.” As if that wasn’t enough, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/buster-posey-mvp-2012-nl-giants-san-francisco_n_2140504.html” target=”_hplink”Buster Posey won a National League MVP/a weeks later, cementing a curtsy from Grantland dubbing San Francisco “a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/san-francisco-best-sports-city_n_2339740.html” target=”_hplink”the sports city of a year/a.”

    em- Robin Wilkey/em

  • Happy Birthday

    Our dear overpass incited 75 this year, and yet crowds didn’t rush a Golden Gate as they did on a 50th (nearly causing a camber to squash it in a process), a jubilee was no reduction spectacular.

    Events enclosed special exhibits, performances by internal bands and dance troupes, a selected vessel march and an 18-minute firework fantastic that shamed each other firework uncover in a story of fireworks. (a href=”http://goldengatebridge75.org/celebrate/golden-gate-festival.html” target=”_hplink”Watch it here!/a)

    We can usually suppose what 2037 will demeanour like…

    em- Robin Wilkey/em

  • Oakster-Damned

    Obama’s assertive crackdown on California’s medical pot attention continued to massacre jobs and tiny businesses conflicting a state.

    The many important misadventure occurred in April, when sovereign agents raided Oaksterdam University, Oakland’s mythological cannabis training propagandize (and belligerent 0 for a city’s pro-pot movement).

    But there competence be wish on a setting — with electorate legalizing recreational use of a plant in Washington and Colorado, California appears staid to follow suit.

    And politicians are voicing support. Last week, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/gavin-newsom-marijuana_n_2348096.html”told a New York Times/a that stream anti-marijuana laws “just don’t make clarity anymore.”

    em- Carly Schwartz/em

  • A Light Shines On Market

    For decades, each time San Francisco’s economy has started to feverishness up, a “g-word” has come up: Will gentrification rinse over a blighted territory of mid-Market Street, reviving a city’s grand dance once and for all? Each and each time, that call has always rolled behind before loyal revitalization could ever occur.

    But now, during Dot Com Boom 2.0: Social Media Edition, things have been different, damnit. Commercial genuine estate in SoMa has turn a wanting commodity. City leaders are luring humanities organizations and restaurants into a area and giving tech companies like Twitter, Zendesk and Dolby robust taxation breaks to take over spaces that formerly housed frame clubs, conduct shops, or many often, zero during all.

    While some have disturbed a gentrification of mid-Market could cut off homeless and SRO hotel residents from a area’s thoroughness of services, others are vehement about a colourful blurb mezzanine finally joining a Civic Center and a Financial District.

    BART’s construction might have killed many of Market Street’s once-lively culture, though smartphone apps that give people something to do while watchful for BART might ironically be a thing that brings it behind to life.

    em- Aaron Sankin/em

  • The Sheriff And His Wife

    It’s been roughly accurately one year given an evidence between newly inaugurated San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his wife, former Venezuelan telenovela star Eliana Lopez, finished with a hash on a her arm, a teary dungeon phone video and, ultimately, a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/ross-mirkarimi-vote_n_1958288.html”three-ring circus/a from that no one emerged though some grade of egg on their face.

    While Mirkarimi managed to keep his pursuit over a objections of Mayor Ed Lee, interjection to a handful of San Francisco’s many forgiving supervisors, a genuine doubt remains: who should play billionaire investor/local domestic energy actor Ron Conway, who saved all a conflict ads? Our income is on Richard Richard Dreyfuss. Or Ted Danson. Or Nicolas Cage. Yeah, Nicolas Cage.

    em- Aaron Sankin/em

  • Need A Lyft?

    They might have started as a teenager amusement/eyeroll in a credentials of your invert home, though those pinkish mustache cars have fast remade San Francisco’s whole travel economy.

    2012 was a year of a rideshare app, with some-more and some-more bland adults branch their cars into cabs for a considerably cheaper (or a href=”https://www.uber.com/”more expensive/a) cost than a normal taxi.

    While companies like Sidecar and Lyft have a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/ride-sharing-apps-come-un_n_1948660.html”come underneath fire/a for disrupting an whole attention and dodging state regulations, their rare recognition — assimilated with Mayor Lee’s support for a city’s “sharing economy” — creates us trust they’re here to stay.

    em- Carly Schwartz/em

  • Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away

    Love it or hatred it, a America’s Cup is entrance to San Francisco subsequent year, and 2012 was a start of a movement with a warm-up competition in a bay. With poignant subsidy from Larry Ellison, San Francisco’s waterfront was remade into an America’s Cup encampment entirely versed to hoop a biggest yachting competition in a world.

    The fad was not though a few concerned moments, including a href=”http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/America-s-Cup-prospects-fading-in-S-F-3759001.php” target=”_hplink”team dropouts/a, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/americas-cup-capsize_n_1972553.html” target=”_hplink”a capsized catamaran/a, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/americas-cup-crash-video_n_1830400.html” target=”_hplink”an on-camera crash/a and a lax vessel that was wrangled by a internal soldier a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/todd-tholke_n_1955871.html” target=”_hplink”who after demanded a $200,000 reward/a. And come December, a America’s Cup aristocrat was even indicted of espionage. (a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/larry-ellisons-oracle-racing_n_2252315.html” target=”_hplink”No, seriously/a.)

    But a spectators came and a competition went on, assisting to make a few days in Oct San Francisco’s a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/san-francisco-fleet-week-_n_1948732.html” target=”_hplink”best weekend ever/a.

    em- Robin Wilkey/em

  • You Can’t Afford To Live Here

    In October, San Francisco’s median home sale cost was $522,600–the a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/most-expensive-city_n_2002532.html”most costly of any civil area/a in a country. The city also has a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/san-francisco-rents-the-highest-in-nation_n_1345275.html”most costly normal monthly rent/a of anywhere in a United States. Earlier this month, one of a many costly homes in a story of San Francisco a href=”http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2012/12/10/san_franciscos_most_expensive_home_sells_for_28250000.php”sold for $28 million/a. Across a Bay Area, let prices are rising faster than a href=”http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/01/bay-area-leads-nation-rental-price-increases”anywhere else in a country/a.

    Long story short, San Francisco is crazy expensive. The reasons behind this are myriad: lease control artificially constricts a supply of accessible apartments, a sepulchral economy increasingly favors high-income believe workers, a mind-bogglingly tiny series of new housing units come onto a market, a new developments that do come onto a marketplace are heavily adored toward a oppulance sector, both state and sovereign appropriation for open housing programs has decreased.

    And, many of all, San Francisco is flattering many a many overwhelming place to live in a story of overwhelming places to live.

    em- Aaron Sankin/em

  • Movin’ On Up

    San Francisco wasn’t going to concede a vital sports group to get divided though removing a new one in return.

    When a Niners announced they were relocating from Candlestick Park to a glossy new locus down in Santa Clara, a mayor became a born-again basketball fan.

    City leaders a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/golden-state-warriors-san-francisco_n_1536111.html”coaxed a Golden State Warriors to relocate/a to a state-of-the-art formidable conflicting a Bay, encompassing dual waterfront piers and charity a decidedly some-more scenic perspective than a Oakland outskirts.

    The $500 million NBA house is slated to open in time for a 2017 season, strictly transforming a area easterly of China Basin into San Francisco’s sporting dominion (ATT park is spitting distance).

    That is, if a city’s common expel of NIMBYs aren’t clever adequate to stop it.

    em- Carly Schwartz/em

  • Richmond Burning

    One dusk in August, Richmond residents easeful in place, taped adult their windows and prayed as a circuitously Chevron refinery–one of California’s largest refineries and a tip polluter in a state–a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/chevron-fire-richmond_n_1757571.html” target=”_hplink”burst into abandon after a malfunction/a. A large plume of fume darkened a sky, manifest all a approach conflicting a bay.

    Though a glow was extinguished within hours, a repairs was done: gas prices skyrocketed, hundreds rushed to puncture bedrooms stating respirating problems and a open screamed for environmental impact reports and accountability.

    “Events like this many new glow are a trigger for a longstanding distrust of Chevron,” a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/chevron-fire-richmond_n_1757571.html” target=”_hplink”said Jason Corburn, a University of California, Berkeley open health and civic formulation professor/a, about a oil giant, that is formed in a Bay Area.

    Indeed, a glow stoked not usually distrust in Chevron, though also deep-seeded tensions stemming from a socioeconomic inequalities existent on conflicting sides of a Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. (“The breeze never blows that fume to Marin County, now does it?” a href=”http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Big-fire-at-Chevron-refinery-in-Richmond-3767221.php” target=”_hplink”said one Richmond proprietor to a San Francisco Chronicle/a.)

    Months later, a href=”http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Thousands-join-Chevron-refinery-fire-suit-4071649.php” target=”_hplink”thousands assimilated together in a lawsuit/a opposite a company.

    em- Robin Wilkey/em

  • Where’s Woody?

    The world’s many civil film executive a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/woody-allen-in-san-francisco_n_1754061.html”finally motionless to find inspiration/a in a City by a Bay, and Find Woody Allen fast became everyone’s favorite summer pastime.

    The iconic filmmaker was speckled all over city while filming scenes for his newest flick, that is rumored to star Cate Blanchett and tells a story of a abounding New Yorker who moves in with her San Francisco-based sister after losing everything.

    Channeling his (naturally) hipster heritage, Allen seemed to spend many of his time in a Mission, enjoying a sandwich during Wise Sons deli, tapas during Eserpento and a wander down 22nd Street.

    em- Carly Schwartz/em

Source: Health Medicine Network