San Francisco November 2024 Voter Guide - sfpublicpress.org
Oct 7, 2024 · Independent, Nonprofit, In-Depth Local News. See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a nonpartisan analysis of measures on the San Francisco ballot, for the election occurring Nov. 5, 2024.
Attempt to Recall SF Supervisor Engardio Faces Uphill Battle
Dec 4, 2024 · For months, the writing was on the wall: A cadre of west side San Franciscans wanted to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio for supporting Proposition K, which would begin the process to turn a large stretch of the Great Highway into a permanent park.The measure passed this November.. On Tuesday, they followed through and filed the official paperwork to begin a recall attempt.
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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.
Navy Lab in SF Became Hub for Human Radiation Experiments
Nov 25, 2024 · The Navy’s San Francisco lab was a major Cold War research facility with a unique focus on “radiological defense,”📄 techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.
‘Exposed’ Project Press Release
Nov 25, 2024 · The San Francisco Public Press is publishing “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” a six-part investigative series.
SF Latinx Residents Test Mental Health App
Nov 22, 2024 · This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast, “Civic.”Click the audio player below to hear the full story. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco’s Latinx residents experienced higher rates of infection and deaths, and greater losses of income and homes than did other ethnic groups. “We lost our jobs.
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Children Violently Removed by Court Order Report Traumatic …
Jun 3, 2023 · It has been seven months since Maya Laing and her brother Sebastian, who were 15 and 11 at the time, were violently taken from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home by court order.. Judge Rebecca Connelly, who oversaw their custody case, rejected the siblings’ claims that their mother abused them, and last October she ordered them into reunification training to repair their fractured ...
Coercive Control: Abuse That Leaves No Marks
Nov 10, 2023 · A California law enacted in 2021 allows domestic violence victims to claim coercive control — a broad range of behaviors including humiliation, surveillance, intimidation, gaslighting and isolation that strips an intimate partner of a sense of autonomy and personhood.
Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans
Nov 25, 2024 · Rebecca Bowe: At the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco where a massive real estate development project is under construction, there’s a white, windowless tower. It’s known as Building 815, and it once housed the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. During the Cold War, scientists who operated here studied radioactive debris from nuclear bomb blasts.