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A report on homeless conditions in Fresno....

The minimum wage implementation and enforcement ordinance on Tuesday’s agenda at the Board of Supervisor’s meeting was pushed back a week. The legislation seeks to enforce the minimum wage law that was passed in San Francisco in 2003. The ordinance would amend current law to require employers to pay an annual fee that would help fund the city in its effort to implement the new minimum wage standard. Although it is set at $8.50, thousands of workers haven’t benefited from the increase because ...

Thousands of signatures on the petition to save San Francisco’s Black heartland from a Redevelopment Agency land grab are pouring in, but to reach our goal of 30,000 valid signatures of voters registered in San Francisco, many more petitions need to be passing from hand to hand throughout the city....

In a contentious hearing Wednesday, involuntary outpatient commitment extension bill AB 2357 (Karnette and Yee), which would extend the sunset date of AB 1421 ("Laura's Law"), was passed by the State Senate Health Committee with a vote of 5-3. The bill will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee....

Ethnic cleansing is a less genteel word for gentrification. Prior mayors of San Francisco have successfully racially cleansed the Fillmore, renamed the Western Addition. They drove out Black people or coopted the opposition by signing treaties, much as did the white man and the American Indian. These mayors passed out script and money. Those that they could not hire, they gave script. This script was as worthless as confederate money....

Consumers and doctors aren't getting the full story about the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceutical products. Please support this drug safety bill which would require that all health study data, for drugs sold in CA, be made available to the public. Right now we are NOT getting all of the information! People can not make informed decisions without all of the information!...

The Board of Supervisors will hold a hearing this Friday regarding 150 Otis Street, a piece of surplus owned by the city that has quickly become an indicator of San Francisco’s level of commitment to enacting the Surplus Property Ordinance. Passed in May of 2004, the ordinance stated that the city’s surplus property would be converted to housing for the homeless. Yet despite this, the Mayor’s Office of Housing recently rejected an attempt to turn 150 Otis in to such housing, despite it repres...

Local merchants Roots N Kulchah, the 100% vegan food truck, is under attack! The City of Sacramento is proposing an ordinance that will have an adverse effect on the operation of mobile food trucks and venders, and criminalize those who do not follow the ordinance! Call your council members/country supervisers, and come to the hearing!...

Our Black youth are being killed in the Bayview Hunters Point and the Black Church have NOT steped up to the plate to do the right thing. Often times in the Bayview you will hear Black Pators scream and shout but nothing more and nothing less. At one time the Black Pastors were a force to be reckoned with - no more. Today, most of them are on the take and play second fiddle to those issues that really affect the community - the Black on Black killing in one of them....

From 1995 to 1997, I had the pleasure of working with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department in their Workreation program, a training program that allows teenagers to become assistant day camp directors for recreation centers and latchkey programs around the city. In three summers, I worked at Youngblood Coleman Park, Hamilton Recreation Center and John Muir Elementary School....