Tag: San Francisco
Trump sends immigration agents to San Francisco amid National Guard threat
Coast Guard Base Alameda will host 100 DHS agents as the administration signals a wider “whole-of-government” push; California leaders warn the move is “right out of the dictator’s handbook.”
San Francisco approves police deployment of potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots
“Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when [the] risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD.”
In San Francisco, hundreds of homes for the homeless sit vacant
At least part of the problem is a shortage of case managers, who are the crucial link between vacant units and the hundreds of people approved for housing.
Youth climate activists will not stop fighting their climate case –...
“The 9th Circuit has deprived people in that Circuit the ability to seek a resolution of a real controversy with their government.”
Ballot measure added in San Francisco to increase taxes on corporations...
“We believe that big corporations that can afford to pay their executives million-dollar salaries every year can afford to pay their fair share in taxes to help us recover.”
‘It’s also about reclaiming our time’: California school will cover up...
"It's also about reclaiming our time, reclaiming our space. It's about black and indigenous people ... it's a form of reparations."
Will San Francisco be the second city to tax extreme CEO-worker...
In November 2019, SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times worker pay.
Police chief apologizes after raid on journalist’s home
“The residents of San Francisco, our Mayor and City leaders, the news media and the hardworking men and women of the police department deserve better."
Ninth gray whale in two months washes up dead in Bay...
"If this continues at this pace through May, we would be alarmed."
Suspended cop arrested for bank robbery
Daugherty faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted of bank robbery.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.