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COVID

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Garrett Leahy - April 3, 2020

“I can’t even afford to go to work,” said taxi driver Colin Marcoux, who has been driving a cab for over two decades. COVID has...

Culture

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

Marke B. - April 2, 2020

As tragic stories about COVID cluster deaths in Black communities begin to emerge from New York and Detroit to Georgia and beyond, many are...

News + Politics

Immigrants sue for release from Yuba County and Mesa Verde jails

Sam Lew - March 25, 2020

Thirteen immigrants detained at Mesa Verde Detention Center and Yuba County Jail filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday calling for their...

Housing

Five supes push to put homeless in vacant hotel rooms

Sam Lew - March 24, 2020

Five San Francisco supervisors announced plans yesterday to house thousands of homeless residents using some of the city's 33,000 vacant hotel rooms during the...

Housing

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2020

The Coalition on Homelessness just put out an emergency policy platform to protecting unhoused people from COVID-19. You can sign the petition to show...

News + Politics

Coronavirus crisis doesn’t stop eviction cases

Tim Redmond - March 17, 2020

Update: The courts have agreed to put evictions on hold. The mayor has declared a moratorium on evictions for nonpayment of rent. The sheriff has...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A major director quietly remakes the Western

Dennis Harvey - March 10, 2020

Austerity is not a quality greatly prized in commercial filmmaking. While we may revere them now, it’s worth remembering that such leading cinematic minimalist...

Housing

Large crowd debates Valencia bike lanes

Mia Sullivan - February 27, 2020

On Monday night, the meeting room at the City College Mission campus was packed as tightly as an N-Judah train during commute hours. The...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 1: Wild rides and deep looks

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 19, 2020

Culling through the 40 features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

News + Politics

Where the air is never spared

Tom Molanphy - December 19, 2019

“Do the right thing,” Marie Harrison admonished the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in June, 2018. “You know it’s not safe yet.” Harrison was accepting...

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For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

Immigrants sue for release from Yuba County and Mesa Verde jails

Five supes push to put homeless in vacant hotel rooms

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Coronavirus crisis doesn’t stop eviction cases

Screen Grabs: A major director quietly remakes the Western

Large crowd debates Valencia bike lanes

What we saw at Sundance, part 1: Wild rides and deep looks

Where the air is never spared

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