San Francisco

27 Feb 2020

Satirical BART Ads Appear, Warn of Trump Re-Election

This week, some art activists papered BART cars with a satiracal ‘frontpage’, titled Trump Re-Elected by One Vote.  The unsanctioned ‘articles’ from the ‘Washington Toast‘, warn that a low voter turnout will lead to a Trump re-election, and perhaps the ‘death of Democracy’. On the bottom right corner of the

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26 Feb 2020

San Francisco Eyes Additional Vehicle Triage Center Sites

By Jerold Chinn While it’s still too soon to report results for San Francisco’s first safe parking program for vehicle dwellers, officials have already begun eyeing additional sites to establish another vehicle triage center. The City’s Real Estate Division Director Andrico Penick told the Board of Supervisors Land Use and

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26 Feb 2020

Peralta Community College District Finally Ratifies Part-Time Faculty Contract

The Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to ratify a tentative contract agreement between the district and the Peralta Federation of Teachers, upping pay for part-time faculty. The district represents Berkeley City College, Laney and Merritt colleges in Oakland and College of Alameda. The move brought

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26 Feb 2020

Bring Your Brooms Out to Protest Homeless Encampment Sweeps

Coinciding with a Local Homeless Coordinating Board meeting, the housing rights organization Solutions Not Sweeps Coalition will be holding a protest of sorts at the steps of San Francisco City Hall Thursday, brooms encouraged. The group is asking folks to come out with sweeping devices in hand to bring attention

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25 Feb 2020

Suspicious Loophole Money Swamps SF DCCC Race

While the legal limit to San Francisco political campaign donations is just $500, the somewhat obscure SF Democratic County Committee DCCC race in the March 3 California primary vote has candidates gaming a loophole and taking checks for thousands more. A Broke-Ass Stuart investigation into campaign filings at the SF

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25 Feb 2020

Why Is Mike Bloomberg Texting Me and How the F#@! Did He Get My Number? An Analysis

Our Tech Column was made possible by the fine folks at Mozilla Firefox.  The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet must always remain a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.  And that’s why we love Firefox as our browser, and you should too. Billionaire presidential candidate and

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25 Feb 2020

Meet All 35 SF DCCC Candidates for District 17

There are an astonishing 35 candidates in the March 3 Primary ballot for the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) District 17. In plain english: there are 35 people running for this somewhat obscure local Democratic party committee called the DCCC ⁠— we explain what the DCCC is here

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25 Feb 2020

WE WANNA SEND YOU PLUS ONE TO SEE COMBO CHIMBITA!

Through her folkloric mystique, otherworldly psychedelia, and a dash of enigmatic punk, Ahomale by Combo Chimbita catapults the sacred knowledge of our forebears into the future. Their second studio album and Anti- Records debut sees the visionary quartet drawing from ancestral mythologies and musical enlightenment to unearth the awareness of

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