[su_carousel source=”media: 32680,32681,32682,32683,32684,32685,32686,32687,32688,32689,32690,32691,32692,32693,32694,32695,32696,32697,32698,32699,32700,32701,32702,32703,32704,32706,32719,32707,32708,32709,32710,32711,32712,32713,32714,32715,32720,32717,32718″ limit=”40″ width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20 was met by fierce resistance throughout the country, with massive protests exploding in many major cities. In the Bay Area, the weekend storm wasnât the only thing that caused a noisy raucous. Chants rumbled from San Francisco to Oakland […]
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New bill seeks to preserve Latino culture in the Mission
District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed legislation that would impose zoning regulations on new âcommercial usesâ in the Mission in order to help safeguard the unique character of the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District. âFor the first time, we are using land use tools to articulate what characteristics we would […]
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Opinion: Trumpâs attorney general pick unfit for office
Donald Trump is already signaling the direction he wants to move our country with the team he has assembled around him: backward. His cabinet appointments include a climate change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency, an anti-public education zealot as secretary of education and a cabal of Goldman Sachs executives to regulate Wall Street. […]
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San Franciscans rally to protest repeal of Obamacare
[su_carousel source=”media: 32656,32657,32658,32659″ width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Fearing that Donald Trump will make good on his promise to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, thousands of San Franciscans demonstrated at Civic Center on Jan. 15, their chants echoing from the steps of City Hall. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by local politicians, […]
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City College wins five-year battle to retain accreditation
[su_carousel source=”media: 32648,32647,32649″ width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] City College of San Francisco officials were expecting the unexpected when the collegeâs accreditation was reaffirmed for another seven years by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), the governing body which had once threatened its future. During a Jan. 13 news conference at the Diego […]
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David Chiu: Ready to defend California values
Since Nov. 8, Iâve received numerous calls, letters, and worried emails from San Franciscans of all walks of life asking, âWhatâs next?â As we as Californians prepare for an unpredictable and inconsistent Trump administration that we overwhelmingly rejected, one thing is clear: We must work together to protect our hard-fought values and rights. As the […]
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SF nonprofits under threat in coming âsanctuary cityâ fight
San Francisco, like many Bay Area cities, has for decades been a âsanctuary cityâ with policies in place that limit federal immigration officials from searching and detaining undocumented immigrants. President-elect Trump has vowed that within his first 100 days in office he will block all federal funding to sanctuary cities to prevent them from serving […]
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Homeless encampments are being removed but homeless remain
Editorâs Note: This article is a project of San Francisco State Universityâs Latina/Latino Journalism class taught by Katynka Martinez. âThereâs not enough room for everybody,â said 49-year-old Edwin Mus, who is known by his fellow homeless neighbors as âEl Vampiro.â Mus, originally from Guatemala, is a homeless man who has lived in the Mission for […]
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Michael Roman wore his art on his sleeve
The note written on Facebook was brief and dramatic: âMichael Roman died in my arms this morning at 10:15 a.m.â The author of the note, artist Kate Rosenberg, had been taking care of Michael for the last weeks of his life. Once the prolific and generous Roman was told that there was no chance to […]
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In times of doubt the importance of photojournalism is certain
The old saying goes that âa picture is worth a thousand words,â but I disagree. I believe photographs engage our emotions in a way that cannot be measured with words. Written stories describe our reality, but images make us feel that reality. Because El Tecolote is a biweekly publication, by the time we printed our […]