By Bill Picture Published: May, 2013 Though it began nearly four years ago, many San Franciscans had never even heard of the City’s Environment Now green jobs training program until last month. That’s when Mark Boyer, a reporter from The Atlantic Cities, shadowed Environment Now trainees dispatched into neighborhoods before sunrise to sift through waste […]
Published: May, 2002 Staten Island Ferryboat John F. Kennedy and her Crew The massive double-ender ferry John F. Kennedy carries 6,000 people, but guiding it into its slip at the tip of Manhattan was nothing new for Captain Eddie Squire. He’d been at the helm of a Staten Island ferry for more than twenty years. […]
BC Staff Report Published: April, 2014 Arivia question: where was the first land-based container crane installed, heralding a revolution in world commerce? Oakland? Long Beach? The answer would be Alameda. The crane was installed in 1959 at the Matson Lines Encinal Terminals to speed delivery of pineapples from Hawaii. What didn’t seem significant at the […]
