On one side there is a wealthy technocrat who is foul-mouthed, makes death threats against our supervisors and brags about it, and on the other side there is a public interest journalist who walks away from a coffee shop with some campaign literature. The latter is regrettable, the former reprehensible.
A Call for Civility in 2024 SF Elections By Nancy H. DeStefanis For democracy to continue in the U.S., politics demands civil and reasonable discourse. In January, Garry Tan, billionaire tech supporter […]
Collectively we have prioritized the movement of vehicles over the safety and livability of our City. What is left for us is to decide whether we want these tragedies to continue.
Our first production as a westside-based theater will be a 90-minute community reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The cast will combine trained, experienced local actors with other members of our neighborhood to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday.
I would take my 4-year-old son to the park near the Japanese Tea Garden almost every afternoon to play. After a couple of hours of play time, we would sit down by the tea house and have green tea with almond cookies.
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Best Buddies in San Francisco is proud to have 140 (and counting) participants lacing up their shoes to walk for inclusion, all working to surpass 2024’s fundraising goal of $135,000.
Photos from the Lunar New Year celebration at the Richmond District Neighborhood Center, Feb. 3, 2024.
If no creative solutions will be enacted soon to curtail this growing trend of bold, open shoplifting in our essential stores, more owners will be forced to close their businesses, realizing that, paradoxically, the shoplifters have gotten the upper hand, as if they own their stores.
UCSF Health has signed a definitive agreement with Dignity Health to acquire Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (Saint Francis) and St. Mary’s Medical Center (St. Mary’s), along with associated outpatient clinics in San Francisco. The organization hopes to close the transaction in spring 2024.
Joe Ramos’ personal reflections of identity and kinship echo across generations, tying in the shared bonds of community within the vast landscapes of the Salinas Valley.
What should you consider before buying your first home? This is an extremely important question. For most people, this is the largest financial investment they will ever make in their lives. Buying a home can be extremely exciting and owning a home is still considered to be achieving the American Dream by many.
Prop. F’s mandatory treatment approach starkly contrasts with San Francisco’s 2022 Drug Overdose Prevention Plan, which emphasizes a more inclusive and voluntary strategy for managing addiction. Given the City’s limited treatment facilities and housing resources, Prop. F could inadvertently heighten the overdose and homelessness crises, moving us in the opposite direction from the plan’s goals of accessible and varied substance use services.
If you didn’t know any better, walking up Geary from 17th toward 18th Avenue, under the shade of large, bustling sidewalk trees, you’d think you were somewhere like downtown Sacramento or Chico. Then you see “The Nags Head,” a sign with a beautiful horse (nag), and the unique Dutch-Door entrance, and suddenly, you’re in a divey pub in England or Scotland.
She was a breath of fresh air for those who read the RR – a progressive voice who wrote informed columns on affordable housing, how things work in the City, etc. I will miss her.
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