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Newsom Proposes to Freeze Medi-Cal Enrollment for Undocumented Immigrants
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to freeze Medi-Cal enrollment for low-income immigrants without legal status and charge premiums, which could save the state more than $5 billion.

Meet San Francisco’s ‘Rave Doctor’
Dr. Veronica Jow, a San Francisco-based sports medicine physician and rave doctor, offers preventative training and injury recovery services for dancers at Avid Sports Medicine, helping you get back on the dance floor in no time.

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

Best Bay Area Events 5/13-6/2
Nothing Like Itby Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor I can’t wait to see the costumes at both Giants Dog Days and Bay to Breakers this weekend! And in other Giants news this week, An Evening with Kruk & Kuip and an attempt at breaking a world record with Hunter Pence. Number

My Beef With San Francisco’s Cannabis Dispensaries
With a couple odd jobs in between, I’ve worked retail and/or food service for over twenty years. Both are terrible for their own hellish reasons (I promise, while the service industry is punishing, retail is outright unforgiving). Meanwhile, as I mopped up the coffeehouse/shoe store/sausage hut, the cannabis industry was

Cuts Are Threatening SFUSD’s LGBTQ+ Student Services
SFUSD’s LGBTQ+ Student Services program is the oldest program of its kind in the world. It has been innovating and setting the standard for whole student support for more than 35 years! Responsibility for the many district-wide initiatives required to support San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ students comes down to one individual.

The Issues with Reopening Alcatraz from an Abolitionist Perspective
The Trump administration’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a prison is a reminder of the need to rethink incarceration and instead focus on anti-racist and queer-focused organizing, as well as addressing local issues such as police overtime and the city’s budget.

Riding Muni is an Adventure. Here’s How to Make it More Fun.
We checked in with experts and consulted the research on what can make riding public transit more fun. Over the last few months as the clay of the transit budget crisis takes form we’ve shared solutions and critiques. Although there’s still a lot of advocacy work ahead, we’re pulling back