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West Oakland has a long industrial history. In the 1940s the neighborhood was made a center for shipbuilding with the construction of the Oakland Army Base and Naval Supply Center. Since then, recycling companies, a postal service distribution center and other heavy industries have joined the...
In Episode #5, Sunny Schwartz, author of "Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All," discusses the award-winning Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP) in San Francisco's jails, the principles of restorative justice, being "...
As I mentioned in last night’s post, the California High-Speed Rail Authority didn’t actually decide anything of significance at yesterday’s meeting. They just voted to continue to study the options for building the tracks down the Peninsula. But the options are controversial, and I want to spend...
Driving into San Francisco is becoming more difficult for those who have to cross a bridge to get there. Tolls are climbing, the carpool lane is no longer free, and there are even plans to make drivers pay a price to enter certain parts of downtown. But once you're in the city, one thing that might...
For many San Franciscans, what happened with the International Hotel and Manilatown became a symbol of the urban casualties that can come with redevelopment. But for the Filipino community, whose members occupied most of the units in the original I-Hotel, the event has been a lasting inspiration to...
Thirty-three years ago today, on August 4, 1977, San Franciscans witnessed the end of a nearly decade-long struggle that included big-time real estate developers, elderly immigrants, Berkeley activists and even Jim Jones.
The International Hotel was once at the heart of the now-vanished San...
It will take weeks longer to select, screen and train the 1,200 National Guard troops the Obama administration had said would be deployed on August 1st along the border from California to Texas. Even then, skeptics aren’t sure how much the deployment will help seal the border from would-be illegal...
In Episode #4, Bill Bratton, former Los Angeles Police Chief and former New York Police Commissioner, discusses the importance of working with the community, recent charges of crime data manipulation in New York, the dangers of cutting police services due to budget crises, the emergence of “...
A new study indicates that emergency room wait-times in California average 274 minutes. Iowa has the shortest wait-times, and California is 99 minutes behind…
The wait-time has increased regarding a decision over whether State Controller John Chiang must issue minimum wage checks to state...
This week is the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act -- the most comprehensive law to protext the rights of people with disabilities.
But About six years before the law was enacted, clinical psychologist Elias Katz and his wife, Florence established the National Institute for...
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