New Strategy Pushed for San Francisco’s Tenderloin
Urban Alchemy has improved safety along 300 Golden Gate
Stakeholders Request Action from City Hall
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We live daily with unacceptable and dangerous street behavior, public drug-dealing and drug-use, open-air markets peddling stolen goods, and blocked public rights-of-way that prevent our employees, customers, clients, tenants and residents from safely traveling in their own neighborhood. It is an alarming public health and public safety crisis, at once heartbreaking and appalling. We believe you agree.” - Ani Vartanian of Rubicon Point on behalf of Tenderloin/Mid-Market stakeholders, email to Mayor Breed, Supervisor Haney and City Administrator Chu
By Gregory Thomas
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The email about a man who drowned while boating on Lake Tahoe arrived in August, when Keith Cormican was in the Canadian Rockies searching for another drowning victim. A young man was missing somewhere in Alberta’s Lake Minnewanka, where the glacial water is so cold that swimmers wear wetsuits even in summer.
By now, Cormican is used to pleading messages from desperate strangers. Over the past seven years, he has become one of the nation’s top specialists in a gruesome yet critical task: locating and retrieving lost bodies in lakes or rivers.
A stout Midwesterner with a round face, gray mustache and glacier blue eyes, Cormican is not part of a government agency no badge, no uniform. The 61-year-old makes a living running a scuba diving shop in Wisconsin. But he has devoted much of the past 25 years to his macabre avocation, towing his custom-outfitted search boat around the country and spending long days motoring across lakes in pursuit of those no
CHEYANNE NEUFFER Tahoe Daily Tribune, via AP
STATELINE, Nev. The past year was such a wild ride that even the thought of a tsunami at Lake Tahoe probably doesn’t sound out of reason.
Several thousand years ago, according to Richard Schweickert, a retired University of Nevada, Reno geology professor, the lake experienced just such an event.
While a specific date is the hard to pinpoint, it is estimated that a tsunami struck after an earthquake in the basin about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Schweickert has spent most of his career working in the Sierra Nevada, and has been collecting evidence about tsunamis in Lake Tahoe.