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A crowd of around 80 people, many of them Black, yesterday gathered outside of a drop-in center for people experiencing homelessness, spiritedly refusing to be displaced — again.

Last month,Mayor Daniel Lurie notified the nonprofit Hospitality House that it would need to close the Sixth Street Self-Help Center, which it had been operating at 169 Sixth St. in the So...


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At a candidate forum hosted by California Alliance for Retired Americans, the two contenders for California’s 11th Congressional District seat agreed: High earners should pay more into Social Security.

Dozens of retirees packed the Teamsters Local 2010 meeting hall in Oakland for the forum, tuning in as state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Ch...


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San Francisco leaders have been arguing all summer over whether transparency is friction or fuel. Is the paperwork the city produces about itself preventing city officials from doing their jobs, or is it what gets things done?

On July 21, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance eliminating the requirement that staff produce a variety of routine progress report...


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For generations, young people in need could walk into centers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods and find medical care, mental health treatment, and connections to housing and other support services under one...


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Following a successful collaboration on the opera “Harvey Milk Reimagined,” the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the GLBT Historical Society have teamed for an exhibition on queer history that emphasizes joy and that the struggle for liberation is not new.

The YBCA team reached out to San Francisco State University creative writing professor


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