Workers Rights
Over 2,000 SF Hotel Workers Went on Strike Over Labor Day Weekend
Approx. 2,080 San Francisco and San Mateo hotel workers went on strike and demonstrated over Labor Day weekend for better wages and workloads.
Has the Haight Ashbury Street Fair fallen to our AI overlords?
The artist who won the Haight Ashbury Street Fair’s 2024 poster contest has been accused of using AI. What’s the truth, and what does it mean for art in San Francisco? The Haight Ashbury intersection and surrounding neighborhood are quintessential SF. Hippie, counterculture, music-focused – the street fair that started
What You Need to Know About Project 2025
The impacts on women, LGBTQ+ rights, families, education and the workforce would be absolutely terrible.
Why Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Curfew Will Backfire
I, a Tenderloin resident, believe drug abuse and homelessness persist here because they make certain folks at City Hall very rich. It’s the last reasonable explanation I can think of, since logistic operations at San Francisco City Hall unfailingly exacerbate them. If the humanitarian crises at the heart of SF
Oh NO! ‘Ultra-Luxe Private Club’ Sues Transamerica Pyramid Owner
It’s a dark day for the new billionaire’s Club slated for the Transamerica Pyramid. A tragic tale of millionaires suing billionaires over their poor planning, let’s dive into the irony…
Dark Money is Flooding SF Politics. These People are Exposing It.
San Francisco is on the cusp of its next Phoenix Moment, but shady funding is quietly deciding what will rise from the flames – and what the greedy want to set on fire. There’s always been a back door to City Hall. The garden-variety way is by donating money, and
Academy of Sciences Workers Say Unionizing Efforts Are at A Breaking Point
The workers in the CalAcademy Workers United have taken to papering telephone poles throughout San Francisco. That’s because the union says the California Academy of Science, which began bargaining with the group in December 2023, has made a slew of decisions in recent months that have pitched tensions between management
I Went to an AI Summit. What I Found Really Worried Me.
So far I am seeing tech moving very very fast and making some people lots and lots of money, while responsibility and human contact are becoming less and less important. People are being left out, and important discussions about equity, integrity, and intent are being left behind.