POLITICS By Bob Egelko April 10, 2024 (SFChronicle.com) UC Berkeley’s law school dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, and his wife, law professor Catherine Fisk, invited third-year students to their home for a dinner to celebrate the students’ upcoming graduation. But it became a scene of anger when a student arose to denounce the… Continue reading
The neighborhood could see building heights raised between six and 14 stories to meet the state’s demand for more housing. ANNE MARIE KRISTOFF APRIL 10 2024 (inglesidelight.com) The neighborhood’s transit corridors are subject to San Francisco’s state-mandated plan to raise building height limits. Get Our Newsletter Let the best of… Continue reading
Photo from SFist.com 10 APRIL 2024/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of “recovery” — both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco’s return to prosperity and his own… Continue reading
Photo from SFist.com 11 APRIL 2024/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Another of Mayor London Breed’s goals in her upcoming trip to China, besides getting a panda for the San Francisco Zoo, is apparently to chat up a university there about opening a satellite campus in SF’s struggling downtown. Breed already announced with some… Continue reading
Photo from SFist.com 11 APRIL 2024/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known San Francisco drag queen called “Mama Simpson.” Many of today’s obituaries… Continue reading
FOCUS: Biden Says He Is ‘Considering’ Australian Call to Drop Julian Assange ChargesEd Pilkington, Guardian UKPilkington writes: “Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified… Continue reading
Photo by: Gordon Peters (The Chronicle) O.J. Simpson, the football star from San Francisco who was acquitted in the killing of his former wife and her friend but later found responsible in a separate civil trial, died at his Las Vegas home on Wednesday. He was 76. The cause was… Continue reading
My entire family attended City College of San Francisco. It has shaped my family and the lives of so many San Franciscans. After my father came to the United States and was laid off, he enrolled in English and culinary classes at City College to improve his language skills and… Continue reading
TYT • Apr 10, 2024 • Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist, and spiritual thought leader. She joins Cenk on The Conversation today to discuss her presidential campaign and the biggest issues facing Americans. Watch to find out what the brutal experience of running for president has entailed.
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth speaks during the CERAWeek oil summit in Houston, Texas, on March 19, 2024. (Photo: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images) News of Mike Wirth’s 2023 compensation came after March was deemed the 10th month in a row to be the hottest ever recorded. JAKE JOHNSON Apr 10,… Continue reading
