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Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Haley Keizur - February 12, 2019

Nine hundred ninety-eight. That’s how many people were shot and killed by police in the US in 2018. And 115 of those were in...

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ACLU sues after Sacramento sheriff blocks Black Lives Matter on Facebook

Haley Keizur - February 4, 2019

The First Amendment protects freedom of expression, but how does that law, written hundreds of years before smartphones were even imagined, apply to today’s...

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The spy cameras you didn’t know about in Golden Gate Park

Beth Winegarner - December 27, 2018

Just inside Golden Gate Park, not far from where Haight Street dead-ends at Stanyan, Alvord Lake offers a quiet, shady spot to relax, walk...

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Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Tiny - December 17, 2018

“This (conservatorship law) sounds like slavery to me,” Memphis, houseless poverty skola reporter for POOR Magazine’s RoofLESS radio, reported after a terrifying town hall on...

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The reality about Nancy Pelosi …

Tim Redmond - November 25, 2018

When Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House in 2007, Washington news media started calling me. The right wing was going nuts; Pelosi, they...

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On Veterans Day, let’s also remember those who fought for the right to dissent

Elaine Elinson - November 11, 2018

When Robert Simmons, an African American man from Savannah, Georgia, was brought to the foggy, windswept island of Alcatraz in the winter of 1918,...

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Is everyone at City Hall incompetent?

Tim Redmond - September 16, 2018

I will stipulate that the BART Station at 16thStreet is dirty. But it seems a bit of a stretch to say that because of...

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A terrible week at the Supreme Court — and it could get even worse

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2018

It’s been a very bad week at the US Supreme Court – and it could get a whole lot worse. Justice Anthony Kennedy was the...

Lit

Leticia del Toro grounds her ‘Cafe Colima’ in the lives of ‘everyday Latinas’

James Tracy - June 26, 2018

LIT Bay Area author Leticia Del Toro is not a household name... yet. Her work has appeared in Huizache, Zyzzyva, Cipactli and Mutha Magazine. Her short stories are some...

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Police Commission meets behind closed doors on Tasers

Sarah Lapidus and Tim Redmond - June 14, 2018

The Police Commission went into closed session to discuss Taser policy as a labor issue Wednesday, just a week after the defeat of Proposition...

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Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

ACLU sues after Sacramento sheriff blocks Black Lives Matter on Facebook

The spy cameras you didn’t know about in Golden Gate Park

Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

The reality about Nancy Pelosi …

On Veterans Day, let’s also remember those who fought for the right to dissent

Is everyone at City Hall incompetent?

A terrible week at the Supreme Court — and it could get even worse

Leticia del Toro grounds her ‘Cafe Colima’ in the lives of ‘everyday Latinas’

Police Commission meets behind closed doors on Tasers

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