SUPPORT US Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks during a Nov. 7, 2023, press conference in Oakland, Calif., about a man who died in police custody. Photo: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images Bankrolled by real estate investors, a multimillion-dollar recall effort against Pamela Price launched just… Continue reading
Madison Hall Apr 3, 2024 (businessinsider.com) A group of California-based graduate students has developed an AI-powered tool to catch congressional insider trading as soon as possible. Though in its infancy, the program could be a revolutionary way for journalists, researchers, and the general public to hold public officials accountable. For their Fall… Continue reading
Our Economic Culture Has Isolated Us. Our Politics Have Divided Us. Now We’re Backsliding As legislative elections near, South Korea’s former Minister of Gender Equality and Family Jung-Ok Lee reflects on why the nation is seeing a rollback in democratic norms and gender equality. Courtesy of AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. by JUNG-OK LEE | APRIL 4, 2024… Continue reading
Story by Jessica Kwong (MSN.com) A new map projects future inundation of 32 coastal cities in the US (Picture: Leonard Ohenhen et al)© Provided by Metro Two dozen US cities are at risk of going underwater as sea level rises and land sinks. A new map by Virginia Tech researchers reveals the cities in danger… Continue reading
Supervisor Dean Preston, the only Democratic Socialist on the Board of Supervisors, owns a home worth some $2.5 million. Just check his Wikipedia entry. It’s right there. Preston doesn’t dispute that he owns a home that, like many in San Francisco, is worth a pretty penny. However, Preston is the… Continue reading
Yesterday, the State of Maine took America one giant step closer to ending the antidemocratic grip the GOP’s had on our presidential elections… THOM HARTMANN APR 4, 2024 Share What if the person the majority of Americans voted for became president? It usually happens, but no Republican has been elected… Continue reading
by JOE ESKENAZI JANUARY 23, 2018, (MissionLocal.org) [dropcap]Moments [/dropcap] after he provided the sixth and deciding vote to oust London Breed from the position of acting mayor and install Mark Farrell as caretaker, Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, all six-foot-four of him, was sprawled out in a seat in his City Hall office…. Continue reading
4 APRIL 2024/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (sfist.com) A tiny start to a very ambitious project got underway when Rec and Parks installed a few new sycamore trees in Civic Center Plaza, though this lofty landscape design has been stalled for years. If you’re a fan of San Francisco outdoor spaces, it… Continue reading
Photo by: Stephanie Zhu/The Chronicle photo illustration (SFChronicle.com) Established in the early 1900s, San Francisco’s Japantown was once a vibrant residential hub. Most people consider the early 1940s as the neighborhood’s heyday, when most of the more than 5,200 Japanese immigrants and American-born Japanese in San Francisco lived in the… Continue reading
By J.D. Morris Updated April 4, 2024 (SFChronicle.com) Aaron Peskin, the progressive president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, says he is entering the city’s already-crowded mayor’s race partly because of what he sees as a chaotic governing strategy from incumbent London Breed. Peskin, who plans to formally declare his candidacy with the city’s… Continue reading
