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Hostility Plagues LGBTQ Latin American Immigrants Seeking Addiction Recovery...
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast, “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. Scores of LGBTQ refugees come to San Francisco to escape threats in Latin American...
View ArticleSF Fails to Produce Evidence It Follows Encampment Clearing Policy
San Francisco cannot prove it follows an aspect of its own encampment clearing policy intended to help people retain their essential belongings. During encampment clearings, if unhoused people do not...
View ArticleSF Criticized for Lack of Community Input on Opioid Settlement Funds Use
A coalition of addiction experts and treatment advocates is commending the San Francisco Department of Public Health for committing some of the $352 million opioid lawsuit settlement funds the city...
View ArticleSome Hope Mayor Lurie’s Inaugural Party a Turning Point for Chinatown
For years, local groups in Chinatown have worked to draw large crowds to the neighborhood, to help revitalize it in the aftermath of the pandemic. They finally pulled it off last Wednesday with help...
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San Francisco Tries to Mitigate Harm of Out-of-State Abortion Bans
The annual Walk for Life West Coast rally is set to descend on San Francisco on Jan. 25 for the 21st time, bringing an anticipated tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists from around the country....
View ArticleBay Area Protests to Fill Streets as Trump Takes Office
A broad array of Bay Area groups are staging protests this weekend to denounce President-elect Donald Trump’s right-wing policies and what organizers identify as rising fascism, as well as rallies to...
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Immigrant Advocates Trying to Dispel Rumors of ICE Operation in SF
Rumors of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention operation alarmed residents of San Francisco’s Mission District earlier this month following threats by President Donald Trump since his...
View ArticleAs Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship, SF Chinese Americans Prepare for...
President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship challenges a landmark legal victory won by a San Francisco Chinatown institution over a century ago. Now, the community is once again...
View ArticleFederal Grant Freeze Order Sows Confusion for SF Food, Health Programs
UPDATE (1/29/25): On Wednesday, the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget rescinded a memo to pause federal assistance, which was facing challenges in court. Later, Karoline Leavitt,...
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Public Defender Alleges Local-Federal Law Enforcement Partnership Defies SF...
San Francisco’s top prosecutor, police chief and public defender gathered on Jan. 28 on the steps outside City Hall’s main entrance in a rare display of unity as they committed to uphold sanctuary...
View ArticleHow Trump’s Attack on Environmental Programs Is Already Affecting Local...
This piece was produced by Bay Nature — a nonprofit, independent media organization that connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to the natural world — for its Wild Billions reporting...
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It’s Not Just the Great Highway. Some Chinese American Voters Have Felt...
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in November, a vibrant crowd gathered on the sand-covered median of the Great Highway. Young families, cyclists and seniors formed a sprawling half-circle along the...
View ArticleCity Seizing More Wheelchairs, Tents from Unhoused People, Data Shows
San Francisco city workers have confiscated unhoused people’s property more often in recent years, including mobility devices such as wheelchairs, an analysis of public records by the Public Press...
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Tesla Becomes Lightning Rod for Political Protests
Hundreds of people descended on San Francisco’s Tesla dealership Monday to peacefully protest recent actions by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk to downsize the federal workforce under...
View ArticleFilm Screening: ‘Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink’
Join the San Francisco Public Press at the Roxie on March 13, for a special fundraising screening of “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” a documentary by two-time Academy...
View ArticleMass Deportation Threats Put Caregivers, Seniors, Disabled People on High Alert
President Donald Trump’s promises to implement mass deportations and other potential changes to immigration policies could strain an already-understaffed health care workforce, making it harder for...
View ArticleBusiness Entrance Accessibility Law, Never Enforced, Expected to Be Scrapped
Magan Li used to lie awake at night thinking about the tripping hazard created by a large step leading into her store on one of Chinatown’s steep streets. Li’s shop sells items for traditional rituals...
View ArticleRevisiting Conversations With Shaken Ukrainian Diaspora in SF
This week marks three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the conflict shows no signs of ending. On the eve of this grim anniversary, Russia launched its largest drone attack yet, causing...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court to Hear Court Reporter Shortage Case
In a move hailed by legal advocates of low-income litigants, the California Supreme Court last week agreed to hear a case on whether to allow electronic recording in family court hearings. “We are...
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Advocates Win Fight to Keep Chinatown-SOMA Bus Connection
Mr. Zhang and his wife were used to taking the 30 Muni bus regularly to Chinatown from their home in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. The bus would take them directly to the heart of...
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