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  • San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up city's filthy streets arrested

    01/29/2020 11:08:30 AM PST · by ransomnote · 13 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | 01/28/20 | Morgan Phillips
    Nuru, who goes by “MrCleanSF" on Twitter, also oversees the design and construction of city facilities and the management of 1,600 employees. Its capital project portfolio is more than $5.6 billion. Bovis, alongside Nuru in 2017, championed a portable toilet venture called “Tiny Potties” aimed at mitigating the city’s public defecation problem associated with its growing homeless population. The portable restrooms were meant to look like the Painted Ladies Victorian homes near Alamo Square, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Nuru, as of late, has attracted criticism from homelessness advocates for conducting sweeps of the city’s homeless encampments. However Nuru’s...
  • Top San Francisco street clean-up official arrested

    01/28/2020 12:36:09 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 23 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | January 28, 2020 | By JANIE HAR
    A top San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up the city’s notoriously filthy streets who has promoted portable public toilets to ease public urination has been arrested, jail records show. San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was in custody Monday, along with Nick Bovis, the owner of Lefty O’ Doul’s, a popular sports bar in Fisherman’s Wharf. Records say only that the men were arrested for felony safekeeping. The FBI and David L. Anderson, the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, planned a Tuesday afternoon news conference. Local news outlets reported that Nuru, 57, was arrested on suspicion of...
  • Chicago-Bound Amtrak Stalled by Terror Threat

    An Amtrak train bound for Chicago was stopped suddenly Tuesday when a man began spouting terrorist threats.