Todd Berman

It’s 7am and 54°F with temperatures hitting a high of 70°F. Tonight the fog will roll in, bringing with it cooler temperatures to start off the week. More weather details here.

Prepare yourselves for whips, leather and kinky displays because the Folsom Street Fair goes into full swing today at 11am. However, this year things are little different. The city’s most erotic public festival has attracted the sponsorship of one of corporate America’s conservative powerhouses– Marriott International Corp., whose founders are devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Mormon church was a staunch supporter of Prop 8. Read more about this bizarre collaboration.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance that exempts the city from the nationwide Secure Communities program, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that holds arrested people for potential deportation, reports the Huffington Post. Under the new ordinance, San Francisco authorities will be unable to keep a person in custody based on immigration status.

Ranking as one of the most dangerous cities in the nation for pedestrians, San Francisco’s South Van Ness sits at the top of the list in severe or fatal injuries per mile, reports Mission Local. According to public health epidemiologist Megan Wier speeding is to blame, and despite efforts by the city to increase safety on South Van Ness accidents are still high.

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Courtney Quirin is a trained wildlife ecologist turned environmental journalist with a knack for photography and visual storytelling. Though her interests span many topics and disciplines, she's particularly keen on capturing multimedia stories pertaining to the global wildlife trade, human-wildlife relationships, food security, international development and the effects of global markets on local environments and cultural fabric. Courtney completed a MSc in Wildlife Management at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where she not only learned how to catch and tag fur seals (among many things) but also traveled to the highlands of Ethiopia to identify the nature and extent of farmer-primate conflict and its linkages to changes in political regime, land tenure, food security, and perceptions of risk. From New Zealand Courtney landed at The Ohio State University to investigate urban coyotes for her PhD, but just shy of 2 years deep into the degree, she realized that her true passions lie within investigative journalism. Since moving into the world of journalism, Courtney has been a contributor to Bay Nature Magazine, a ghostwriter for WildAid, and the science writer for Academia.edu. While at Berkeley's J-School Courtney will focus on international environmental reporting through the lens of documentary filmmaking and TV.

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