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🐎Lunar New Year, a Book Fair, & Kevin Smith

Feb 17, 2026

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15 min read

🐎Lunar New Year, a Book Fair, & Kevin Smith

Best Bay Area Events 2/17-3/2

Vanessa Gil

On the Picket Line, I Rediscovered the San Francisco That I Love

Feb 17, 2026

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6 min read

On the Picket Line, I Rediscovered the San Francisco That I Love

After a historic week on the picket lines, a teacher reflects on solidarity, working-class San Francisco, and why supporting teachers means supporting students.

Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely

Why The Bay Area's Billionaires Should Save BART

Feb 17, 2026

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5 min read

Why The Bay Area's Billionaires Should Save BART

The Rich Should Subsidize Us For Once

Abraham Woodliff

Drone-Led Arrests: Crime Prevention or Mass Surveillance?

Feb 16, 2026

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7 min read

Drone-Led Arrests: Crime Prevention or Mass Surveillance?

SFPD's recent arrest-by-drone has sinister implications beyond fighting crime.

Jake Warren

What it Was Like As a Parent During the Teachers' Strike

Feb 13, 2026

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4 min read

What it Was Like As a Parent During the Teachers' Strike

We won!

Bunny McFadden

Trump Demands SF Public Housing Residents Prove Citizenship

Feb 12, 2026

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4 min read

Trump Demands SF Public Housing Residents Prove Citizenship

Trump’s Executive Order 14218, “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” and that “federal housing assistance will no longer be granted to illegal aliens or sanctuary cities.”

James Conrad