By | | , , , , , , , |Cameron Kim, by Clara-Sophia Daly.Kim was drawing on an image of Theogenes, a Greek philosopher who was once homeless.Hospitality House to homeless populations in San Francisco.Kim’s “outdoor art studio” that he carries around with him in his black artist duffel bag. Photo by Clara-Sophia Daly.Putnam holds up the hand-drawn pins she was working on. Photo by Clara-Sophia Daly.Angela Summers painting at the park. By Clara-Sophia Daly.Tags: • • • •-----× Close Panel…By | | , , , , , , , |Cameron Kim, by Clara-Sophia Daly.Kim was drawing on an image of Theogenes, a Greek philosopher who was once homeless.Hospitality House to homeless populations in San Francisco.Kim’s “outdoor art studio” that he carries around with him in his black artist duffel bag. Photo by Clara-Sophia Daly.Putnam holds up the hand-drawn pins she was working on. Photo by Clara-Sophia Daly.Angela Summers painting at the park. By Clara-Sophia Daly.Tags: • • • •-----× Close PanelWW…

By | | , , , , , , , |Downtown view from Mission High School. May 9, 2020 around noon. Photo by Kerim HarmanciSan Francisco Unified School District. Photo by Jennifer Cortez.Photo by Kathleen NarruhnIn case you’re wondering, 99.2 percent of 124 is 123Tags: •Joe,Great work scratching another layer of the seemingly eternal incompetency of SFUSD bureaucracy.I see a movie with Jack Nicholson as a deranged supe moving teacher pieces around on a giant board in some basement while chuckling.“Zoom PE”?That’s hilarious.What’s next, ‘Zoom Graffiti Art?Go Niners!h.District staff have been cleaning the...…By | | , , , , , , , |Downtown view from Mission High School. May 9, 2020 around noon. Photo by Kerim HarmanciSan Francisco Unified School District. Photo by Jennifer Cortez.Photo by Kathleen NarruhnIn case you’re wondering, 99.2 percent of 124 is 123Tags: •Joe,Great work scratching another layer of the seemingly eternal incompetency of SFUSD bureaucracy.I see a movie with Jack Nicholson as a deranged supe moving teacher pieces around on a giant board in some basement while chuckling.“Zoom PE”?That’s hilarious.What’s next, ‘Zoom Graffiti Art?Go Niners!h.District staff have been cleaning the...WW…

By | | , , , , , |File photo: Construction Crane lifts workers to remove existing structure., a sharp increase from the 193 affordable housing units added to the Mission from 2010 to 2019. The remaining three projects are scheduled to open between one and two years from now. In addition, there are two more projects that are likely to get underway sometime in the next couple of years.Correction: This story was updated on 11/08/2020 to include BRIDGE Housing’s involvement in the 1950 Mission St. and 490 South Van Ness Ave. developments. Tags: • •It’s great to see all the new subsidized...…By | | , , , , , |File photo: Construction Crane lifts workers to remove existing structure., a sharp increase from the 193 affordable housing units added to the Mission from 2010 to 2019. The remaining three projects are scheduled to open between one and two years from now. In addition, there are two more projects that are likely to get underway sometime in the next couple of years.Correction: This story was updated on 11/08/2020 to include BRIDGE Housing’s involvement in the 1950 Mission St. and 490 South Van Ness Ave. developments. Tags: • •It’s great to see all the new subsidized...WW…

By | | , , , , , |Photo by Lola M. ChavezTags: • • •I want to publicly thank SFPD Southern Station Captain Timothy Falvey and Officer Nava for their assistance in helping our us address the many quality-of-life issues we face in here in our section of SoMa. They have been extremely fair and even-handed in dealing with all parties involved in a given problem or dispute. Having lived in the city for 40 years I have to hand it to the San Francisco Police Department for their outreach and community engagement and neighborhood outreachI am not an expert in labor law (and i doubt anyone who posts...…By | | , , , , , |Photo by Lola M. ChavezTags: • • •I want to publicly thank SFPD Southern Station Captain Timothy Falvey and Officer Nava for their assistance in helping our us address the many quality-of-life issues we face in here in our section of SoMa. They have been extremely fair and even-handed in dealing with all parties involved in a given problem or dispute. Having lived in the city for 40 years I have to hand it to the San Francisco Police Department for their outreach and community engagement and neighborhood outreachI am not an expert in labor law (and i doubt anyone who posts...WW…

By | | , , , , , , |A new mural cropping up near 20th and Shotwell as election season ramps up. Photo by Annika Hom.an Francisco is a city that too much enjoys being scratched behind the ears by an adoring world, while turning a blind eye on its endemic sclerosis, soft corruption, casual misery and fiscal ticking time bombs.With that said, this city’s denizens turned out at something like an 85 percent clip to vote for rent control. We voted, overwhelmingly, to revamp Proposition 13. We voted to reinstate affirmative action. We shrugged off Big Tech’s quarter-billion-dollar misinformation...…By | | , , , , , , |A new mural cropping up near 20th and Shotwell as election season ramps up. Photo by Annika Hom.an Francisco is a city that too much enjoys being scratched behind the ears by an adoring world, while turning a blind eye on its endemic sclerosis, soft corruption, casual misery and fiscal ticking time bombs.With that said, this city’s denizens turned out at something like an 85 percent clip to vote for rent control. We voted, overwhelmingly, to revamp Proposition 13. We voted to reinstate affirmative action. We shrugged off Big Tech’s quarter-billion-dollar misinformation...WW…

By | | , , , , , , , |The Jamestown Community Center operates out of 826 Valencia Street. Photo courtesy of Christian Medina Beltz.Keep the news comin’.Tags: • • • • •-----× Close Panel…By | | , , , , , , , |The Jamestown Community Center operates out of 826 Valencia Street. Photo courtesy of Christian Medina Beltz.Keep the news comin’.Tags: • • • • •-----× Close PanelWW…

By | | , , , , , , |At 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, can be lethal if one miscalculates its potency.San Francisco is now on pace to suffer 675+ overdose deaths in 2020. And, again, this is only the preliminary data.by on Scribdfound that 68 percent of fatal heroin overdoses were among people who were using alone. The pandemic has only exacerbated this trend, as more and more people are isolated.Fentanyl, however, is more unpredictable and powerful than heroin. And, adds Kristen Marshall, the manager of the DOPE project, which coordinates the city’s...…By | | , , , , , , |At 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, can be lethal if one miscalculates its potency.San Francisco is now on pace to suffer 675+ overdose deaths in 2020. And, again, this is only the preliminary data.by on Scribdfound that 68 percent of fatal heroin overdoses were among people who were using alone. The pandemic has only exacerbated this trend, as more and more people are isolated.Fentanyl, however, is more unpredictable and powerful than heroin. And, adds Kristen Marshall, the manager of the DOPE project, which coordinates the city’s...WW…

By | | , , , , , |Chief of Police William Scott addresses the community at the end of a meeting in September 2017. Photo by Kaitlin BenzTags: •Guardians, like guards, like in a prison.Is this a pre-COVID-19 picture? I don’t see anyone wearing a mask in that photo…Where are the masks???Yes, it freaks me out also that there are ALL these people in SF in a ROOM with no MASKS!The photo is from 2017, as noted in the caption.The “guardian mindset” comes from the 2015 Presidential Task Force, in the wake of Ferguson, etc. Later that year it was repeated in an SFPD “reform” document following the...…By | | , , , , , |Chief of Police William Scott addresses the community at the end of a meeting in September 2017. Photo by Kaitlin BenzTags: •Guardians, like guards, like in a prison.Is this a pre-COVID-19 picture? I don’t see anyone wearing a mask in that photo…Where are the masks???Yes, it freaks me out also that there are ALL these people in SF in a ROOM with no MASKS!The photo is from 2017, as noted in the caption.The “guardian mindset” comes from the 2015 Presidential Task Force, in the wake of Ferguson, etc. Later that year it was repeated in an SFPD “reform” document following the...WW…

By | | , , , , , |An illustration depicting Maurice Caldwell. By Molly OlesonRead:Read:Tags:“On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu made it absolutely clear that Caldwell’s case against retired Commander Kitt Crenshaw for allegedly fabricating evidence against him will go trial on March 15, 2021. ”Is there a word missing from this sentence?-----× Close Panel…By | | , , , , , |An illustration depicting Maurice Caldwell. By Molly OlesonRead:Read:Tags:“On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu made it absolutely clear that Caldwell’s case against retired Commander Kitt Crenshaw for allegedly fabricating evidence against him will go trial on March 15, 2021. ”Is there a word missing from this sentence?-----× Close PanelWW…

By | | , , , , , , |The three: blue for recycling, black for trash, and green for compost. File photo, 2009Click for larger versionFormer Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru. Photo by Lola M. Chavez-----× Close Panel…By | | , , , , , , |The three: blue for recycling, black for trash, and green for compost. File photo, 2009Click for larger versionFormer Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru. Photo by Lola M. Chavez-----× Close PanelWW…

By | | , , , , , |On June 9, 2018, SFPD Officer Joshua Cabillo shot Oliver Barcenas in the back within one minute of making contact. Body camera footage provided by SFPD.Tags:-----× Close Panel…By | | , , , , , |On June 9, 2018, SFPD Officer Joshua Cabillo shot Oliver Barcenas in the back within one minute of making contact. Body camera footage provided by SFPD.Tags:-----× Close PanelWW…

By | | , , , , , , |The photo adorning the Emily Zeng Twitter account, which sends out caustic memes, appears to have been lifted from the Twitter profile of scholar Emily S. ChenEmily Zeng’s early morning Sept. 24 Tweet is rapidly retweeted by a handful of bogus accounts before being seeded onto the Vote and Change SF Facebook pageA series of photos of Asian women appear to have been appropriated to adorn bogus Twitter accounts disseminating San Francisco political attacks. Photo juxtaposition by Chris ArvinJennifer Yan quote-tweeted this Emily Zeng anti-Dean Preston Meme. Then the whole...…By | | , , , , , , |The photo adorning the Emily Zeng Twitter account, which sends out caustic memes, appears to have been lifted from the Twitter profile of scholar Emily S. ChenEmily Zeng’s early morning Sept. 24 Tweet is rapidly retweeted by a handful of bogus accounts before being seeded onto the Vote and Change SF Facebook pageA series of photos of Asian women appear to have been appropriated to adorn bogus Twitter accounts disseminating San Francisco political attacks. Photo juxtaposition by Chris ArvinJennifer Yan quote-tweeted this Emily Zeng anti-Dean Preston Meme. Then the whole...WW…

By | | , , , , , , , |by on Scribdby on Scribd.if you rent your house to a company that knowing re-rents it out….you get what you deserve.-----…By | | , , , , , , , |by on Scribdby on Scribd.if you rent your house to a company that knowing re-rents it out….you get what you deserve.-----WW…

By | | , , , , , , |Former Department of Human Resources manager Rebecca Sherman on Sept. 7 allegedly sent this email to a Muni worker indicating the worker would soon receive a promotion and a $514,000 settlement. This email, however, is a purported forgery — as was that big settlement.Even with all of these cinematic details, people tend to glaze over when they hear the term “HR.” That’s too bad. It’s an influential and powerful department with an incredibly broad reach — remember, San Francisco has tens of thousands of employees earning billions and billions of dollars.byby on ScribdIn...…By | | , , , , , , |Former Department of Human Resources manager Rebecca Sherman on Sept. 7 allegedly sent this email to a Muni worker indicating the worker would soon receive a promotion and a $514,000 settlement. This email, however, is a purported forgery — as was that big settlement.Even with all of these cinematic details, people tend to glaze over when they hear the term “HR.” That’s too bad. It’s an influential and powerful department with an incredibly broad reach — remember, San Francisco has tens of thousands of employees earning billions and billions of dollars.byby on ScribdIn...WW…

By | | , , , , |Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump.OMG! Has it really been ?Scroll down for today’s Covid numbers., a data visualization startup, developed some new visualizations for Mission Local, which we will be using and fine-tuning in the days to come. On Septmember 23, the DPH added 9 more cases bringing the Mission total case number to 1568, or 26.2 cases per 1000 residents.The seven-day City-wide average number of daily cases for the week ending September 19 was 62 or 7.1 per 100,000 residents.Cue the trumpets! Yesterday SF surpassed 100...…By | | , , , , |Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump.OMG! Has it really been ?Scroll down for today’s Covid numbers., a data visualization startup, developed some new visualizations for Mission Local, which we will be using and fine-tuning in the days to come. On Septmember 23, the DPH added 9 more cases bringing the Mission total case number to 1568, or 26.2 cases per 1000 residents.The seven-day City-wide average number of daily cases for the week ending September 19 was 62 or 7.1 per 100,000 residents.Cue the trumpets! Yesterday SF surpassed 100...WW…