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21 May 2025

The US Government Once Built Beautiful Public Housing…Yes, Really.

by Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. government embarked on a radical experiment: It quietly became the nation’s largest housing developer, designing and constructing more than 80 new communities across 26 states in just two years. These weren’t hastily

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21 May 2025

New Law Could Make Pornography a Federal Offense

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, introduced by Senator Mike Lee and co-sponsored by Rep. Mary Miller, aims to broaden the definition of obscenity and grant the Trump regime the power to enforce a uniform standard for defining obscenity, potentially leading to the criminalization of adult content and free speech.

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10 Apr 2025

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

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20 May 2025

Best Bay Area Events 5/20-6/9

Count Me In by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor BottleRock is finally here! I am looking forward to a weekend rolling on my own schedule, good music (Remi Wolf, Cage the Elephant, Rebelution…just to name a few), tasty foods, the fashion, sunshine, and running into old friends & acquaintances. Of course,

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20 May 2025

Rookie SFPD Officer Drunk Drives, Crashes Car, Injures Five

I imagine when cops drive drunk, they probably think to themselves, “who’s going to pull me over? The police? I am the police!” precisely as their car gets permanently pulled over by a light pole.   This is precisely what happened in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset on Saturday morning. Except the

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20 May 2025

Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket In San Francisco

San Francisco has been fighting on the front lines of the Fentanyl crisis for nearly a decade now, and while there has been some success in recent years curbing its fatality, all of that progress has seemed to disappear as drug overdose deaths skyrocketed 50% since Daniel Lurie has taken

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19 May 2025

Housing Conversion Bill May Right Century-old Wrong

It appears San Francisco is finally getting the message: commuter commerce is dead and it isn’t coming back. Now, what to do with the leftover skyscraper graveyard? The practical solution has been obvious since in-office culture collapsed in 2020: turn those highrises into homes. We have the square footage. Even

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19 May 2025

Community Action in SFUSD Layoffs Prevails

Last week, SFUSD’s LGBTQ+ Student Services program was on the verge of elimination. First of its kind, it was in jeopardy because R35 LGBTQ+ School Climate Coordinator Kena Hazelwood’s position was tentatively terminated. Hazelwood (ey/em) was among the 34 counselors and 117 paraeducators within the San Francisco Unified School District

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