The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) plans to reopen schools starting April 12, announced the city’s Board of Education Friday. After being under the national eye for months due to the school board’s decision to prioritize renaming public schools over reopening them, the city’s school officials have reached...
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San Francisco district to reopen after putting school name backlash to rest
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) plans to reopen schools starting April 12, announced the city’s Board of Education Friday. After being under the national eye for months due to the school board’s decision to prioritize renaming public schools over reopening them, the city’s school officials have reached...
Video surfaces of beating, robbery of Asian man in San Francisco amid uptick in attacks
Surveillance video showing a violent attack on a 67-year-old Asian man at a laundromat in San Francisco’s Chinatown late last month has surfaced. The assault comes amid an uptick in anti-Asian crimes in the area and a rash of car burglaries the San Francisco police...
Video surfaces of beating, robbery of Asian man in San Francisco amid uptick in attacks
Surveillance video showing a violent attack on a 67-year-old Asian man at a laundromat in San Francisco’s Chinatown late last month has surfaced. The assault comes amid an uptick in anti-Asian crimes in the area and a rash of car burglaries the San Francisco police...
San Francisco DA under fire after citing ‘temper tantrum’ for murder of 84-year-old Asian man
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has sparked outrage on social media after telling the New York Times that 19-year-old Antoine Watson was “in some sort of a temper tantrum” when he allegedly attacked 84-year-old Thai immigrant Vichar Ratanapakdee. Ratanapakdee was walking in the city’s Anza Vista neighborhood on the morning of...
New York prison gives coronavirus vaccine to Democratic San Francisco DA’s convicted murderer father
San Francisco’s Democratic district attorney announced Friday that his convicted murderer father received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in a New York prison. “Amazing news,” Chesa Boudin tweeted Friday afternoon. “My incarcerated father just got his first vaccine shot! I hope that once...
San Francisco School Board reaches agreement on reopening, but no date in sight
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) reached an agreement on how to safely reopen their public school system Tuesday night, but the fight on actually getting kids in the classroom is far from over. Several hours into the board meeting, the board voted unanimously to...
The soul of the city: San Francisco honors literary hero Lawrence Ferlinghetti
By 2pm, a small memorial of flowers and a can of Pabst had begun to accumulate outside the door of City Lights Books, to commemorate the death of its co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A vigil for Ferlinghetti, one of the last living links to the Beat...