Bay Bridge Official: Enough With the Reviews
The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is going to open to traffic around Labor Day weekend after all. The bridge has been in the works since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. Nearly a quarter of a century and more than $6 billion later, the oversight committee has given the go-ahead, despite questions the bridge is riddled with brittle steel. Officials decided drivers would be safer on the new span with a temporary workaround than they would be on the old bridge.
Clock Ticking for City College of San Francisco's Accreditation
Coming out of the Great Recession, a lot of California's 112 community colleges are looking a lot worse for wear. Years of budget cuts were brutal, but the hard times also exposed deficits in management at nearly a quarter of the colleges. Perhaps no campus epitomizes this dilemma more dramatically than the state's biggest: City College of San Francisco. It's the only school at risk of losing its accreditation.