And how it helped Ronald Reagan into the White House ROBERT REICH APR 23, 2024 (robertreich@substack.com) Friends, In September 1964, university officials at Berkeley banned students from using the campus for political causes. The officials had been under pressure from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered… Continue reading
Peskin, Chan amendments offer accountability—but where is the affordable housing, and why are details still secret? By STEVE STALLONE APRIL 22, 2024 (48hills.org) The supes will consider Tuesday/23 a risky plan to bail out the developers of the Treasure Island housing development. This so-called “Alternative Financing” plan, embodied in the Disposition and Development Agreement… Continue reading
22 APRIL 2024/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Reverend Cecil Williams, who until today had been a living testament to the modern era of San Francisco and its reputation for accepting all varieties of the human condition, has died at age 94. Williams, who retired for the third and final time a… Continue reading
Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish… Continue reading
Posted on April 23, 2024 by SF Forest Alliance On both sides of Clarendon Avenue, the trees that shaded the sidewalks and provided habitat have been chopped down. There’s a scene of stumps and logs instead. And of course, they’re spraying toxic herbicides. Roundup (glyphosate); Milestone (aminopyralid); Polaris (imazapyr). They’re nasty, and we’ve… Continue reading
… Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That’s The Agenda for April 24-31 By TIM REDMOND APRIL 21, 2024 (48hours.org) The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday/22 on a… Continue reading
Status Coup News • Streamed live on Apr 22, 2024 • Students at Columbia University walk out to demand amnesty for student and faculty protesters. They are joined by protesters in New York to demand a Free Palestine and Ceasefire in Gaza as NYPD increase their violence against them. We’ve… Continue reading
by OSCAR PALMA APRIL 22, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) In our “Meet the Candidates” series, we are asking every supervisorial hopeful in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology and more in 100 words or less. Answers are being published individually each week,… Continue reading
Courtesy of JP Massar and Jessica Christian – April 23, 2024 I’d say there are a little over 50 tents here on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley. Students are stopping to take pictures or ask what supplies the campers need as they walk by to class @sfchronicle… Continue reading
