By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local The United States Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Colorado baker who claimed his First Amendment religious freedoms were impinged by a same-sex couple hoping he would bake them a wedding cake. Locally, bakers in San Francisco and, specifically, the Mission told Mission Local that they’re not itching to […]
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Election Day Roundup: The Best of the Links
Still haven’t voted? Still undecided? Not sure where to cast your ballot or to register first? Just hungry for anything about the Big Day? We’ll point you to sources that can help feed the need and satisfy the cravings. Polls close at 8 p.m.
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Making San Francisco’s Gritty Tenderloin Safer for Kids
By Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED/CALmatters On a wet sidewalk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Michael Cameron approached a middle-aged man snorting a white powder cupped in his hands. Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by. “Guys were […]
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Finally, Data Map S.F. City Hall’s Progressive-Moderate Divide
Exclusive: A data-driven analysis has, at last, mapped the progressive-moderate divide at San Francisco City Hall that political observers have known in their guts for years.
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California Moves Closer to Its Own Sweeping Net Neutrality Rule —Will It Save the Open Internet?
By Antoinette Siu, CALmatters With just 11 days to go until the federal government intends to roll back net neutrality, California’s Senate has stepped into the void by advancing a bill that aims to maintain equal internet access for all its citizens. This fight over who pays for the internet and how it should be […]
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Mayoral Candidates Respond — or Do Not — to Our Issues Questionnaire
Three of the eight candidates for mayor answered our policy questions and offered feedback. The questionnaire was inspired by an analysis of key political issues that have come before the Board of Supervisors.
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In California, a Fight Over Clinics for Kidney Patients
By David Gorn, CALmatters A battle is escalating between the dialysis industry and an influential union in California, with allegations on one side of shoddy practices in the treatment of kidney patients and accusations of political bullying on the other. With a growing number of Californians on dialysis, the union has teed up an initiative […]
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Public Press Weekly: Checking Out the Candidates
Election day is coming up. Here’s what some of the San Francisco mayoral candidates have to say on issues, including homelessness, the housing shortage and political moderation.
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This Deported Nurse Is Now Raising Her Oakland Kids — From Mexico
By Alyssa Jeong Perry and Levi Bridges, KQED News/The California Report In the winter of 1990, a private plane carrying a small group of passengers crashed on the high-altitude plateau of central Mexico. For Maria Mendoza, the accident started a chain of events that sent her on a northward journey all the way to Oakland […]
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Challenge Grant From Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
The San Francisco Public Press is pleased to announce an exciting $25,000 challenge grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. The foundation also made a gift of $25,000 in unrestricted funding. To trigger the match, the Public Press must raise $25,000 in new contributions. The goal is to draw support from new members. But if you’re […]