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Why We Should Get Rid of Court Ordered Debt for Low-Income People
Imagine you’re a single parent working as a mechanic and making regular installment payments to the SF court on a couple of traffic tickets you got a couple years ago for speeding and jaywalking. A few months into the payments, your child is diagnosed with a medical condition.
I Gave up OJ Simpson for Lent
Lent. Up until a day year ago I thought it was just one vowel off from the shit you can find in your belly button. As time has gone on, however, I’ve learned that it’s so much more than what I did with my sweater. It’s the commemoration of the period before
SFMTA Offering Refunds on $6.1 Million in Overcharges
The SFMTA has given notice of approximately $6.1 million in unclaimed funds for overpayment and duplicate payments received for parking and transit citations issued between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 2012. The deadline to fill out a claim is March 3, 2016! After that any unclaimed funds will become the property
Open Letter to Justin Keller
Dear Mr. Justin Keller,
Thank you for your letter voicing your concern over the current problems facing our fair city, San Francisco. I read that you’ve been here over 3 years, so I can imagine how hard it must be for you to see the city change from the clean, quiet tourist destination of 2013 to the vile, riffraff-saturated hovel of 2016
What to do When Someone is Having a Mental Health Crisis on the Street
Justin Keller’s absurd, entitled, whiny, anti-homeless rant got me thinking about this. Not long ago I was walking near Church and Market and suddenly there was a bunch of hubbub behind me. You know what I’m talking about, it’s not loud and raucous but there’s some kind of disturbance that sets
Dark Anecdotes Of A Dating Idealist: When Your Best Friend Is Dating Your Ex
It was a 4th of July. I was fresh from spending 2 years in LA and I’d arrived with the promise that my Ex-boyfriend, Bob and I would get back together, except he dumped me instead… Nevertheless, the important ex in this story is a piece of human shit named
One Transwoman’s Quest to Manifest Pussy
Not many people get a second shot at virginity. It’s a particular blessing of the post-op transgender experience that I didn’t expect would weigh so heavily upon me. I feel like a teenager again, full of curiosity and a longing to participate in this super awesome thing everyone else says