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As Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship, SF Chinese Americans Prepare for a Familiar Fight

A Chinatown organization won a legal victory for birthright citizenship a century ago. Now the community is once again embracing its legacy of fighting for immigrant rights.

Exposed: Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point. An image of a navy ship in a shipyard. It glows orange. People walk around the dock area. A sign reads Radioactive Ship. Keep Off.
  • Throngs of people carrying signs and flags walk down an urban street behind four people holding a large blue banner reading "Somos La Resistencia" in Spanish in large pink letters, with a smaller English translation reading "We are the resistance."
    Immigrant Advocates Trying to Dispel Rumors of ICE Operation in SF

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    Throngs of people march through the intersection of Van Ness and Market Street, in San Francisco in 2020.
    Bay Area Protests to Fill Streets as Trump Takes Office

    Bay Area groups are staging protests this weekend to denounce President-elect Donald Trump’s right-wing policies and what organizers identify as rising fascism. The demonstrations aim to highlight a range of issues, including Trump’s plans to implement mass deportations and other anti-immigrant policies. Read the story for event times and locations.

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  • A woman wearing a dark top and white pants stands next to a table displayng informational pages at a community festival.
    San Francisco Tries to Mitigate Harm of Out-of-State Abortion Bans

    Anti-abortion groups have initiated increasingly aggressive activities in San Francisco since the fall of Roe v. Wade, with some ignoring protective zones around clinics and even threatening violence. In response, community groups, nonprofits and local government have stepped up efforts to ensure access to abortions and reproductive health support in San Francisco — both for people who live in the city and for those who travel here seeking help.

  • A crowd of people watch a music show, their faces lit, at Mayor Daniel Lurie’s inaugural party in Chinatown.
    Some Hope Mayor Lurie’s Inaugural Party a Turning Point for Chinatown

    For years, Chinatown organizations have worked to draw large numbers of visitors to the area to revitalize it in the pandemic’s aftermath. They finally pulled it off for Mayor Daniel Lurie’s inaugural banquet. Some key figures in the community hope this marks a turning point for the area. Meanwhile, some merchants are skeptical and question whether the energy will last.

  • Two oxycodone medicine bottles, with one on its side with pills spilling out
    SF Criticized for Lack of Community Input on Opioid Settlement Funds Use

    A coalition of addiction experts and treatment advocates is commending the San Francisco Department of Public Health for committing some of the $352 million opioid lawsuit settlement funds the city expects to receive over the next 18 years to expanding methadone treatment and addressing racial disparity in fatal overdoses. “These efforts are instrumental in reaching underserved individuals,” the San Francisco Treatment on Demand Coalition wrote in a November letter to the department. But the coalition criticized the department over its lack of transparency and community input.

  • A woman walks away from a homeless encampment as city workers clear or “sweep” it, removing it from the streets in San Francisco.
    SF Fails to Produce Evidence It Follows Encampment Clearing Policy

    San Francisco cannot prove it follows an aspect of its encampment clearing policy intended to help people retain essential belongings. Despite 588 clearings from January to mid-November, the city lacks evidence of a single signed declaration that staff advised unhoused people to separate essentials from property it was confiscating.

  • A woman at a lectern holding a microphone stands with several other people on the steps of San Francisco City Hall.
    Hostility Plagues LGBTQ Latin American Immigrants Seeking Addiction Recovery Support

    A new San Francisco-based group offers safe space for a stigmatized population struggling with substance use disorder.

  • aerial image of the six-story, nearly windowless form radiation lab building at Hunters Point in San Francisco, with housing under construction in the background
    Shuttered Radiation Lab Poses Ongoing Health Risks for Growing Neighborhood

    Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at least 1,073 dockworkers, military personnel, lab employees and others to radiation in technical exercises and medical experiments early in the Cold War. In part 6, we detail how cavalier attitudes toward radiation exposure and an indifference to how pollution left by the Navy might affect San Franciscans have been constants officials warned of plutonium blowing in the air three-quarters of a century ago.

  • Trial Courts Sued, Accused of Hampering Domestic Violence Survivors’ Ability to Appeal Rulings

    Groups that advocate for survivors of domestic violence have sued California trial courts to force them to address the statewide court reporter shortage, which they say is impairing “equal access to justice.”

  • State Commission Gives Green Light to Close SF’s Great Highway to Cars

    San Francisco on Thursday received state approval to proceed with closing a 2-mile section of the Great Highway to car traffic as early as spring 2025, and to begin planning a long-term park on that stretch of road. The car-free highway will have separate lanes for pedestrians and cyclists, along with a new continuous bike lane connecting Daly City to Golden Gate Park.

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  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: San Francisco Tries to Mitigate Harm of Out-of-State Abortion Bans

    Health | Jan 17 2025 | 7:00 am
    San Francisco Tries to Mitigate Harm of Out-of-State Abortion Bans

    Anti-abortion groups have initiated increasingly aggressive activities in San Francisco since the fall of Roe v. Wade, with some ignoring protective zones around clinics and even threatening violence. In response, community groups, nonprofits and local government have stepped up efforts to ensure access to abortions and reproductive health support in San Francisco — both for people who live in the city and for those who travel here seeking help.

  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: Hostility Plagues LGBTQ Latin American Immigrants Seeking Addiction Recovery Support

    Health | Dec 17 2024 | 7:55 am
    Hostility Plagues LGBTQ Latin American Immigrants Seeking Addiction Recovery Support

    A new San Francisco-based group offers safe space for a stigmatized population struggling with substance use disorder.

  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s Toxic Legacy

    Health | Nov 25 2024 | 10:10 am
    A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s Toxic Legacy

    In the first of two podcast episodes of “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” reporter Rebecca Bowe traces the soil contamination plaguing a Navy shipyard back to its origins — 20th century nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific. Environmental justice advocates, scholars and military officials describe their experiences battling over land redevelopment, and reckoning with the legacy of a radiation laboratory that sometimes used human subjects.

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Overdose Crisis

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Reporter Sylvie Sturm has reported in depth in recent years for the Public Press’ podcast, “Civic,” examining why San Francisco and other localities struggle to control an epidemic of deaths and disability caused by addiction to street drugs, as well as efforts to think creatively about solutions.

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Reparations

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Left Out

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LEFT OUT: In San Francisco, Hundreds of Homes for the Homeless Sit Vacant.

In spite of a growing Department of Homelessness with an annual budget of $598 million, eligible people still wait months or even years after being approved for assisted housing. Meanwhile, hundreds of units remain unused. By Nuala Bishari.

LEFT OUT: In San Francisco, Hundreds of Homes for the Homeless Sit Vacant.

San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless People’s Trauma. By Design, Most Fail to Qualify.

The city's system to assess homeless people for housing fails to identify many of the vulnerabilities it was meant to catch, critics say. By Nuala Bishari.

San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless People’s Trauma. By Design, Most Fail to Qualify.

Print Editions

ISSUE 30 - Winter 2020 (ride-hailing)
Issue 30: Winter 2020 Ride-Hailing’s Dark Data: Secrecy cloaks rising accident reports.
Issue 30: Winter 2020 Ride-Hailing’s Dark Data: Secrecy cloaks rising accident reports.
ISSUE 29 - Fall 2019 (KSFP)
Issue 29: Fall 2019 KSFP LP 102.5 FM Launches. Big Ticket Housing Plan faces S.F. Voters
Issue 29: Fall 2019 KSFP LP 102.5 FM Launches. Big Ticket Housing Plan faces S.F. Voters
ISSUE 28 - Summer 2019 (PGE)
Issue 28: Summer 2019 Power Switch: City builds case for pushing out embattled PG&E
Issue 28: Summer 2019 Power Switch: City builds case for pushing out embattled PG&E
ISSUE 27 - Spring 2019 (Veritas)
Issue 27: Spring 2019 Taking on Big Tech
Issue 27: Spring 2019 Taking on Big Tech
ISSUE 26 - Winter 2018 (various, elections)
Issue 26: Winter 2019 Digital Privacy: Who Surveils Those Who Surveil Us?
Issue 26: Winter 2019 Digital Privacy: Who Surveils Those Who Surveil Us?
ISSUE 25 - Summer 2018 (Rent Control)
Issue 25: Spring 2018 Remaking Rent Control
Issue 25: Spring 2018 Remaking Rent Control
Issue 24: Spring 2018
Issue 24: Spring 2018 Immigration: Fighting to Stay. Legally in U.S. for years, thousands face deportation.
Issue 24: Spring 2018 Immigration: Fighting to Stay. Legally in U.S. for years, thousands face deportation.
Issue 23, Fall 2017
Issue 23: Fall 2017 No Vacancy for the Homeless
Issue 23: Fall 2017 No Vacancy for the Homeless
Issue 22: Summer 2017
Issue 22: Summer 2017 Navigating Homelessness: Which Way Home?
Issue 22: Summer 2017 Navigating Homelessness: Which Way Home?
Issue 21, Spring 2017
Issue 21: Spring 2017 Sea Level Rise, Part 2: Wide West On the Waterfront
Issue 21: Spring 2017 Sea Level Rise, Part 2: Wide West On the Waterfront
Issue 20: Winter 2017 Bilingual Schools
Issue 20: Winter 2017 Bilingual Schools
Issue 20: Winter 2017 Bilingual Schools
Issue 19: Summer 2016
Issue 18: Winter 2016
Issue 18: Winter 2016 Consumer prices, housing: The high cost of living here.
Issue 18: Winter 2016 Consumer prices, housing: The high cost of living here.
Issue 17: Summer 2015
Issue 17: Summer 2015 The Bay Area’s waterfront building frenzy includes at least $21B in housing and commercial construction in low-lying areas that climate scientists say could flood by the end of the century.
Issue 17: Summer 2015 The Bay Area’s waterfront building frenzy includes at least $21B in housing and commercial construction in low-lying areas that climate scientists say could flood by the end of the century.
Issue 16: Winter 2015
Issue 16: Winter 2015 Despite their aspirations and efforts, San Francisco schools are increasingly segregated. Last school year, a single racial group formed a majority at six out of 10 schools. Our investigation tries to find out why.
Issue 16: Winter 2015 Despite their aspirations and efforts, San Francisco schools are increasingly segregated. Last school year, a single racial group formed a majority at six out of 10 schools. Our investigation tries to find out why.
Issue 15: Fall 2014
Issue 15: Fall 2014 Attempts to alleviate homelessness with subsidized supportive housing are not keeping pace with growing demand. Reforms could give those waiting for a room an idea of when they might get off the streets or out of a shelter.
Issue 15: Fall 2014 Attempts to alleviate homelessness with subsidized supportive housing are not keeping pace with growing demand. Reforms could give those waiting for a room an idea of when they might get off the streets or out of a shelter.
Issue 14: Fall 2011
Issue 14: Summer 2014 This experiment with solutions journalism paired reporting with the Hack the Housing Crisis conference to explore innovative ideas for keeping rents down and adding more housing while preserving San Francisco’s diverse communities and cultures. those waiting for a room an idea of when they might get off the streets or out of a shelter.
Issue 14: Summer 2014 This experiment with solutions journalism paired reporting with the Hack the Housing Crisis conference to explore innovative ideas for keeping rents down and adding more housing while preserving San Francisco’s diverse communities and cultures. those waiting for a room an idea of when they might get off the streets or out of a shelter.
Issue 13, Winter 2014
Issue 13: Summer 2014 Reporters examined tax records from PTAs and data from the city’s public schools. While fundraising helped a small number of elementary schools avoid the worst effects of recent budget cuts, belts continued to tighten at schools with more economically disadvantaged students.
Issue 13: Summer 2014 Reporters examined tax records from PTAs and data from the city’s public schools. While fundraising helped a small number of elementary schools avoid the worst effects of recent budget cuts, belts continued to tighten at schools with more economically disadvantaged students.
issue 12, fall 2013
Issue 12: Fall 2013 San Francisco spends more than ever on job training, placement subsidies and a slew of supportive services. Is this effectively boosting employment? For many programs it is hard to say, because the system is so fragmented.
Issue 12: Fall 2013 San Francisco spends more than ever on job training, placement subsidies and a slew of supportive services. Is this effectively boosting employment? For many programs it is hard to say, because the system is so fragmented.
Issue 11: Summer 2013
Issue 11: Summer 2013 Climate Change: Regional efforts are taking aim at limiting greenhouse gas emissions. California’s cap-and-trade market promises major reductions. But loopholes abound.
Issue 11: Summer 2013 Climate Change: Regional efforts are taking aim at limiting greenhouse gas emissions. California’s cap-and-trade market promises major reductions. But loopholes abound.
Issue 10: Spring 2013
Issue 10: Spring 2013 Under San Francisco’s 10-year-old minimum wage law the city recovered back wages for only a fraction of workers cheated by their bosses while technically the city boasted the highest minimum wage is the nation.
Issue 10: Spring 2013 Under San Francisco’s 10-year-old minimum wage law the city recovered back wages for only a fraction of workers cheated by their bosses while technically the city boasted the highest minimum wage is the nation.
Issue 9: Winter 2013
Issue 9: Winter 2013 Thousands of homes in San Francisco are more vulnerable to earthquakes because of delays in mandatory retrofitting. Before this report was published, many landlords and tenants did not know their homes were among those needing upgrades.
Issue 9: Winter 2013 Thousands of homes in San Francisco are more vulnerable to earthquakes because of delays in mandatory retrofitting. Before this report was published, many landlords and tenants did not know their homes were among those needing upgrades.
Issue 8: Fall 2012
Issue 8: Fall 2012 An investigation into San Francisco’s uneven response to domestic violence exposed holes in the tracking of criminal cases and a declining rate of prosecution for abuse within the home.
Issue 8: Fall 2012 An investigation into San Francisco’s uneven response to domestic violence exposed holes in the tracking of criminal cases and a declining rate of prosecution for abuse within the home.
Issue 7: Summer 2012
Issue 7: Summer 2012 Regional planners hope to make more of the Bay Area like San Francisco — walkable, BARTable and energy efficient. But “smart growth” is facing resistance from cities, and financial pressure from the cash-strapped state.
Issue 7: Summer 2012 Regional planners hope to make more of the Bay Area like San Francisco — walkable, BARTable and energy efficient. But “smart growth” is facing resistance from cities, and financial pressure from the cash-strapped state.
issue 6: Spring 2012
Issue 6: Spring 2012 State budget cuts and unsteady leadership have hindered local law enforcement agencies and nonprofits trying to stop human trafficking. But signs of better coordination are emerging.
Issue 6: Spring 2012 State budget cuts and unsteady leadership have hindered local law enforcement agencies and nonprofits trying to stop human trafficking. But signs of better coordination are emerging.
issue 5: Winter 2011
Issue 5: Winter 2011 Under the Healthy San Francisco program — the city’s attempt at local universal health care — quality of the care is great. But with uncertain funding and high hidden costs maintaining the program is a challenge.
Issue 5: Winter 2011 Under the Healthy San Francisco program — the city’s attempt at local universal health care — quality of the care is great. But with uncertain funding and high hidden costs maintaining the program is a challenge.
Issue 4: Fall 2011
Issue 4: Fall 2011 San Francisco’s budgeting process is broken. In a time of fiscal austerity, many city departments ignore audits that could save millions of dollars. Includes a take on the “participatory budgeting” trend.
Issue 4: Fall 2011 San Francisco’s budgeting process is broken. In a time of fiscal austerity, many city departments ignore audits that could save millions of dollars. Includes a take on the “participatory budgeting” trend.
Issue 03, spring 2011
Issue 3: Spring 2011 Half of Bay Area newspaper jobs evaporated in the past decade. What caused the media meltdown? Can tech media startups make up for what’s been lost?
Issue 3: Spring 2011 Half of Bay Area newspaper jobs evaporated in the past decade. What caused the media meltdown? Can tech media startups make up for what’s been lost?
Issue 2: Fall 2010
Issue 2: Fall 2010 A report on Muni’s elusive quest for on-time service. The issue also includes stories on obstacles to reviving the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood, and a choose-your-own-adventure graphic on the future of Pier 70 redevelopment.
Issue 2: Fall 2010 A report on Muni’s elusive quest for on-time service. The issue also includes stories on obstacles to reviving the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood, and a choose-your-own-adventure graphic on the future of Pier 70 redevelopment.
Issue 1: Summer 2010
Issue 1: Summer 2010 Report on the environmental and logistical challenges of adding thousands of new housing units to transform Treasure Island into an eco-enclave. Featuring an investigation into Macy’s selling doctored gems without proper labeling.
Issue 1: Summer 2010 Report on the environmental and logistical challenges of adding thousands of new housing units to transform Treasure Island into an eco-enclave. Featuring an investigation into Macy’s selling doctored gems without proper labeling.

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