UCSF Archives - 48 hills

Environment

This land is whose land?

Tom Molanphy - March 13, 2023

The developer and the city insist the Hunters Point Shipyard is safe for development. There's a lot of data that says otherwise. Part III of a series.

Art

Weaving fabric, film, and light, Holly Wong celebrates womens’ energy

Mary Corbin - February 20, 2023

The SF artist manipulates materials like cellophane and silk to tell personal stories on a universal level

Onstage

2022’s highlights on stage, in a year of navigating theater’s return

Charles Lewis III - January 4, 2023

The best (and worst) of welcome Bay Area productions—but let's remember that COVID is still with us, please.

Drug policy

Why are we still fighting over harm reduction in SF?

Tim Redmond - December 16, 2022

Feinstein resisted AIDS-era needle exchanges, now Breed rejects proven safe injection sites. We can't incarcerate our way out of crisis

Development

UCSF’s new hospital: A pretty building, but in the wrong place

Calvin Welch - January 12, 2022

The school's plans will make one part of the city more unlivable and the other part less healthy and wealthy.

Transportation

Opinion: Muni’s restoration plan ignores the needs of people with disabilities

Bob Planthold - November 16, 2021

Changes to the J-Church and the 2-Clement lines leave serious gaps for people who have limited mobility.

Homelessness

Keep the SIP hotels open to save lives, demonstrators tell Mayor Breed

Garrett Leahy - September 7, 2021

Sup. Haney says feds will probably keep paying—but in the end, the city needs to buy these hotels as permanent housing.

Homelessness

Medical professionals say that SIP hotel program is saving and changing lives

Tim Redmond - August 26, 2021

Data shows marked improvements in physical and mental health of formerly homeless—so why is SF shutting these hotels down?

News + Politics

Judge blocks—for now—massive UC expansion in Parnassus Heights

Tim Redmond - August 24, 2021

Temporary order saves historic murals and could force the school to negotiate with the neighborhood that its development project will impact.

COVID

Don’t trust Big Pharma or Western Medicine? Get Vaccinated.

Rupa Marya - August 22, 2021

An activist doctor debunks many of the claims about the COVID vaccine—and warns us all how important it is to GET VACCINATED.

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