San Francisco’s plastic bag ban expands in October
Appeal vowed over city move to expand in October from grocery, drug stores to other retailersSan Francisco’s hard-fought ban on plastic bags is scheduled to expand in October from grocery and drug...
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San Francisco Trails Bay Area in Domestic Violence Prosecutions
Far fewer charged than across the region, even with strongly worded ‘no-drop’ guidelinesIn January 2010, police in the Richmond District responded to a call from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend threw...
View ArticlePoor Record Keeping Hinders Analysis of Domestic Violence Policing Practices
As statistics go from tick marks to laptops, police struggle to make sense of trendsThe San Francisco Police Department cannot precisely measure the number of domestic violence cases it handled before...
View ArticleKQED Radio Interview: Public Press Domestic Violence Report
Editors’ note: This report aired on KQED News on Sept. 26, 2012.KQED's STEPHANIE MARTIN: A new investigative reporting series is questioning San Francisco's record in tracking and prosecuting domestic...
View ArticleCountdown to accreditation: City College makes changes despite criticism
Once lauded for being the largest community college in the nation, City College of San Francisco has recently come under fire in an accreditation crisis that threatens its existence.Three months ago,...
View ArticleMirkarimi Case Brought Spotlight to Domestic Violence in San Francisco
In a hearing room in City Hall in late June, reporters scrambled to get play-by-play reaction from followers of suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, sporting blue-and-white “Stand With Ross” stickers, and...
View ArticleQ&A: The Role That Culture Plays in the Response to Domestic Violence
Orchid Pusey, interim director of the Asian Women's Shelter in San Francisco, says cultural differences can have a big influence on the attitudes and responses to domestic violence. She talked with San...
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Board of Supervisors Candidates on the Issues: San Francisco Fall 2012 Election
Where do they stand? We asked. A nonpartisan guide to the candidates’ political positionsMany observers complain about a lack of attention to the issues in city elections. It can be difficult for...
View ArticleDirtytech: They Obsessively Sort and Recycle What You Dump
If you think of Recology as a set of blue, green and black bins that hang out in the alley of your house that you roll out to the curb weekly — you have no idea.Over the last 10 years, what San...
View ArticleEarthquake Retrofit Delays Leave Thousands at Risk
It will take at least 7 years to secure older wood buildings dangerously perched above windows or garagesOne in 14 San Franciscans lives in an old building with a first floor that city inspectors say...
View ArticleNo One Wants to Go First: S.F.'s Retrofit Timeline
A plan to require seismic retrofits on as many as 3,000 “soft-story” buildings in San Francisco can’t be executed all at once, experts say, because there aren’t enough engineers and contractors who...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Most Urgently Needed Retrofits
There are three types of construction in San Francisco that pose hazards to occupants during a major earthquake. Here is a composite look at the present state of efforts to correct the problem around...
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Homeless People of San Francisco Speak Out
The discussion of homelessness in San Francisco assumes many viewpoints: tales of woe that evoke pity, illustrations of social inequities, homilies on the moral obligations to the less fortunate and...
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Up-to-Date Earthquake Kit Will Increase Your Survival Chances (Infographic)
See below for a graphic guide to your basic San Francisco earthquake kit. See the full-page poster version that appeared in the Winter 2012-2013 print edition of the newspaper.It’s never too late to...
View Article‘I Don’t Think You Can Survive in This City on the Minimum Wage’
At S.F.’s largest soup kitchen, working adults say full-time work no longer pays the rentOn a recent lunch hour in the bustling cafeteria at St. Anthony’s Church in the Tenderloin, where free meals are...
View ArticleEconomists Say City Minimum Wage Means Big Boost for Working Class
Backers say it helps recruitment and retention, but opponents say it kills jobs“Job killer” is a common refrain from businesses in opposing wage increases and other worker benefits. But some...
View ArticleS.F. Lacks Data to Set Minimum Wage Policies
Estimates of low-wage workers range from 20,000 to 55,000With President Barack Obama proposing to increase the federal minimum wage, local policy experts say fully understanding the economic effects of...
View ArticleRestaurant Worker Paid Below Minimum Wage for Training
Food-service sector among worst violators of wage laws nationally and in San FranciscoLast year, Mauricio Lozano found a job through a friend at a pizzeria in North Beach. The pay was $8 an hour, in...
View ArticleIndigenous People Face Obstacles Seeking Legal Pay
Mayas from Yucatán find work in food service, but face language, immigration barriersFew are more susceptible to the crime of wage theft than indigenous newcomers from Latin America, say labor experts,...
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