Politics

26 Mar 2024

Dean Preston Fights To Get A Grocery Store In The Tenderloin

The Tenderloin is a densely populated neighborhood of roughly 25,000 residents. For many people down on their luck, the Tenderloin is one of the few communities in the Bay Area where they are allowed to exist. Yet despite the size of the neighborhood, the Tenderloin lacks what many more affluent

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21 Mar 2024

We Be Sushi Closes Original Location, Following Many on Valencia St.

After 36 years of slicing, dicing, and serving the Mission District of San Francisco, the original We Be Sushi at 1071 Valencia St at 22nd has closed.    Chef Andy Tonozuka told Mission Local the reasons are “mainly the slow business, and another one is I’m 74 now, and I got sciatic nerve pain”.

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A person.
18 Mar 2024

Bay Area Protesters Ask for Financial Relief

There are many legitimate points to be made about seeking solutions to societal problems through spending money, yet until the dawn of that dollar-free day there also many legitimate ways to funnel resources to those in need with whatever dough one can spare. In that spirit, the Bay Area finds

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Person and bombs.
11 Mar 2024

Dune 2 Is The Movie The U.S. Deserves

When the United States carpet bombed Northern Cambodia, an area Henry Kissinger determined was wise to hit so as to destabilize shipping routs for Vietnamese militants, the country inadvertently gave birth to the Khmer Rouge. Historian Greg Grandin, as documented in The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, writes that

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07 Mar 2024

Initial Voting Results for SF Propositions

March 5, 2024 Preliminary Election Results via – sfelections.org Current number of ballots counted: 104,760 Voter registration total: 500,856 Current voter turnout: 20.92% Approximate number of ballots left to count: 111,000 Progressives will likely be ousted from control of the powerful Democratic Central County Committee and are losing badly on

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06 Mar 2024

California Won’t Have a Woman in the Senate for the 1st Time in more than 30 Years

By Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff has won first place in California’s nonpartisan primary for the U.S. Senate, followed by Republican Steve Garvey, setting up a general election matchup in the liberal state that strongly favors Schiff. Returns showed Democratic Reps. Katie Porter and

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Two people.
04 Mar 2024

Meet The East Bay Operation Sending Literal Tons of Books Into Prisons

It’s as distressing a time on the planet as ever, a one-sided war blasting historic communities in Gaza to smithereens with United States tax dollars funding the whole thing. There are storms blowing the Bay Area sideways, more common and destructive thanks to climate change, and an ever-increasing wealth gap

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22 Feb 2024

The Silly and Serious Leap Year Protest in Berkeley

It’s a yeap year which can mean only one thing – a silly protest with an important message is coming to the streets of Berkeley on February 29th. Leap Day Action Night organized by The Slingshot Collective is not your traditional protest or even just a distraction keeping us from

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