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A Back to School Guide for Broke SF Educators (and How Parents Can Help!)
Guest Post by Katie Hunter, Special Education Teacher in SFUSD Struggling to hold on to that last bit of summer as hard as you’re struggling to pay rent in the Bay? Wondering whether you’ll buy extra wine or classroom supplies to prepare for a new school year, because you can only
White Nationalists are Dumb, Weird, and Have No Style
By Hannah Harkness Obviously the worst thing about white nationalists is their racism and spread of hatred and violence. Feel free to read all of the think pieces and literature that has been written about them from WWII to present in regards to that. Today, however, I want to focus
Maya Angelou, San Francisco’s First African-American Female Streetcar Conductor
By Alex Szoenyi The first African-American to pen a best-selling nonfiction book. The first African-American and first female to read a poem at a Presidential Inauguration. The first African-American female director. It seems that Dr. Maya Angelou was destined for a life of trailblazing firsts. Perhaps the initial, yet most obscure
Learn What’s Ailing You at the Museum of Capitalism
Guest Post by Steven T. Jones San Francisco uber-capitalist Warren Hellman – a private equity titan who had been the youngest partner ever at Wall Street powerhouse Lehman Brothers – told me in 2007 that the central struggle of our times was this: “Capitalism won, and now we need to save the world
City of San Francisco Still Invests Hundreds of Millions in Fossil Fuel Companies
By William Barton On August 9th, the board of the SFERS (San Francisco Employee Retirement System) had resolved itself to a big vote. They were deciding whether to fully divest from fossil fuel companies in a landmark case for the growing DivestInvest movement for action on climate change. The SFERS board
The 5 Best Ways to Prepare for World War 3
By Jonas Barnes Let’s be honest with ourselves, as an American people, for just a moment. We fucked up, everyone! Some months ago, we made a big mistake and allowed the highest office in our government to be inhabited by a giant man baby. The very man baby that, sooner
City Secrets : Free Horticulture & Floristry Classes for City Residents
GUEST POST BY C. CHAMBERLAYNE Looking for something to do with your downtime that is a bit more active than watching Netflix and is not going to break the bank? Here’s an idea for you…. City College of San Francisco is offering SF residents free tuition at the college