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San Francisco Eyes Additional Vehicle Triage Center Sites
By Jerold Chinn While it’s still too soon to report results for San Francisco’s first safe parking program for vehicle dwellers, officials have already begun eyeing additional sites to establish another vehicle triage center. The City’s Real Estate Division Director Andrico Penick told the Board of Supervisors Land Use and
Peralta Community College District Finally Ratifies Part-Time Faculty Contract
The Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to ratify a tentative contract agreement between the district and the Peralta Federation of Teachers, upping pay for part-time faculty. The district represents Berkeley City College, Laney and Merritt colleges in Oakland and College of Alameda. The move brought
Suspicious Loophole Money Swamps SF DCCC Race
While the legal limit to San Francisco political campaign donations is just $500, the somewhat obscure SF Democratic County Committee DCCC race in the March 3 California primary vote has candidates gaming a loophole and taking checks for thousands more. A Broke-Ass Stuart investigation into campaign filings at the SF
Why Is Mike Bloomberg Texting Me and How the F#@! Did He Get My Number? An Analysis
Our Tech Column was made possible by the fine folks at Mozilla Firefox. The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet must always remain a global public resource that is open and accessible to all. And that’s why we love Firefox as our browser, and you should too. Billionaire presidential candidate and
Meet All 35 SF DCCC Candidates for District 17
There are an astonishing 35 candidates in the March 3 Primary ballot for the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) District 17. In plain english: there are 35 people running for this somewhat obscure local Democratic party committee called the DCCC — we explain what the DCCC is here
Manchester as a Case Study in Gentrification-Weaponized Art
by Xan Holbrook As anyone who has read my work can intuit, I am an Englishman. Specifically, from Manchester. The story of Manchester is one of change. Ask anyone who sells apartments or business space around here and they’d trot out “rebirth” or “reinvention” but the point remains true. A
What Brought Down the Boy Scouts?
by Kate Brunotts Amongst hundreds of open sexual assault cases, Boy Scouts of America has officially filed for bankruptcy. Boy Scouts, which serves as the largest scouting organization, is no stranger to controversy. Let’s take a look at how the collective’s problematic policies were bound to lead them astray. Sexual
I’m Worried About Quaden Bayles
by [redacted] Last week a heartbreaking video of a 9-year-old kid in Australia went viral. His name was Quaden Bayles, and he was being bullied in school. He was sobbing on camera begging his mother to give him a knife so he could kill himself. The mother said that this