As the Trump administration cuts tens of thousands of federal jobs under the guise of “efficiency,” veterans say the sweeping layoffs and surreptitious push toward privatization are worsening their lives and eroding essential Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare and support programs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Exposed
Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans
In the second of two podcast episodes of “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” reporter Rebecca Bowe lays out what we know from scattered documents and a few remaining eyewitnesses about a Cold War research program that pushed ethical boundaries in the name of national defense.
Bowe speaks with veterans who describe their experiences as guinea pigs in field decontamination exercises that yielded little useful data, and talks with colleague Chris Roberts about what the surviving record say about tests involving injection and ingestion of radioactive substances.
“Civic” Podcast
Los Residentes Latinx de SF Lucharon con la Salud Mental Durante el COVID. Ahora Hay una Aplicación Para Eso
Este artículo está adaptado de un episodio de nuestro pódcast, “Civic.” Haz clic en el reproductor de audio a continuación para escuchar la historia completa. Read this story in English. Durante el punto álgido de la pandemia de COVID-19, los residentes Latinx de San Francisco experimentaron tasas más altas de infección y muertes, así como mayores pérdidas de ingresos y vivienda en comparación con otros grupos étnicos. “Perdimos nuestros trabajos. Mucha gente perdió a sus familias, amigos,” dijo Connie Rivera, quien tiene y opera junto a su esposo dos tiendas en el Distrito de la Misión.
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SF Latinx Residents Struggled With Mental Health During COVID. Now There’s an App for That
Researchers are testing therapy program that combines using a mental health app with peer support for Spanish-speakers in San Francisco’s Latinx community to help with depression and anxiety. UCSF, Somos Esenciales and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are collaborating on the project.
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What Binds People to Great Highway, and Divides Them on Proposition K
For the latest episode of our podcast “Civic,” we interview multiple people about their relationships with the Great Highway and how those connections affect their feelings about Proposition K.
The local ballot measure would close a 2-mile stretch of the coastal road to cars, and put it on track to becoming a new park.
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‘Affordable’ Housing Can Be Too Expensive For Seniors. Proposition G Could Help Fix That.
Many older adults living on fixed incomes in San Francisco teeter on the brink of homelessness. After rent, they have little money for other essentials.
Proposition G could keep some of those people off the streets by reducing rents in hundreds of already-subsidized units, putting them within reach for extremely low-income seniors and other groups.
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Before Propositions D and E Appeared, SF’s Civil Grand Jury Offered Another Take on Commission Reform
San Franciscans this election are weighing whether Propositions D or E would bring the reforms that City Hall’s commission system needs.
John Monson, co-chair of the city’s civil grand jury, discusses the origins of the commission system and the role that public bodies have played in governance.
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Overdose Prevention Centers — Nonstarter in SF, Despite Success in NYC
San Francisco officials appear to have abandoned efforts to open facilities where people can consume drugs under supervision — even as more cities adopt the model to prevent deadly overdoses.
Recent studies show that overdose prevention centers save lives, keep people from consuming drugs in public and do not lead to increased crime.