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An Immigrant Visa Problem is Hitting Silicon Valley
For many families waiting decades for the right to live and work permanently in the U.S. through the crazy, byzantine rules of America’s immigration …
4 years, 5 months ago
Masks Are Optional. But Not For the Medically Vulnerable.
A federal judge in Florida ruled on Monday that the federal mask mandate was unlawful. Hours later, the Transportation Security Administration lifted…
4 years, 5 months ago
San Francisco is Limiting What Police Can Do With Your DNA
On Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance that would limit how police store and use DNA profiles obtained fr…
4 years, 6 months ago
Could Schools Be Held Accountable in Court for How They Handle Sexual Assault?
When a student makes an allegation of sexual assault, their options for redress are often unsatisfying. Few cases end up in the legal system, and rar…
4 years, 6 months ago
San Francisco’s Redistricting Disaster
Redistricting is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to redraw a city’s political map. It’s an important yet arcane process that should ultimately lead to…
4 years, 6 months ago
Why Does Uber Want to Team Up with Taxis?
The rise of Uber in San Francisco a decade ago marked the beginning of the end for much of the taxi industry. Taxi companies went bankrupt and driver…
4 years, 6 months ago
Support for Mutual Aid Came and Went, But the Need is Still There
In 2020 call outs for mutual aid donations flooded social media, and people responded with an abundance of money, food and time. Two years later, int…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Mass Shooting in Downtown Sacramento
It may feel a little far from the Bay Area, but Sacramento is home to our state Capitol. And just a stone’s throw away from that building, in the dow…
4 years, 6 months ago
‘It’s Like Groundhog Day’: Another Year of Drought
The rainy season is over. But it didn’t feel like much of a rainy season at all. And now, California is in another year of drought. In the Bay Area, …
4 years, 6 months ago
Bay Curious: The History of the Bay’s 425 Shellmounds
Before the Emeryville shoreline was a shopping center and commercial area, it was the site of a sacred burial site belonging to the Ohlone people, na…
4 years, 6 months ago