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Retail Groups Pin San Francisco’s Rising Crime Rate on DA Chesa Boudin

July 9, 2021 6:32 amJuly 9, 2021 6:33 am

This week, several retail organizations, including the California Retailers Association, put the blame on the skyrocketing crime rates in the city on District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Since being sworn in as District Attorney in 2020, Boudin has made reducing the...

San Francisco School Board Recall Effort Grows According to New Polling Data

July 8, 2021 11:23 amJuly 8, 2021 11:26 am

The effort to recall San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela Lopez, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and recently demoted Board Member Alison Collins gained traction in the past few weeks following new polls finding that, if enough signatures are collected...

UC San Diego Survey Finds That There Is No California Population Exodus

July 8, 2021 2:39 amJuly 7, 2021 5:50 pm

A new UC San Diego survey released on Wednesday has found that California is not experiencing a population exodus, and that any fluctuations match national averages in population shifts. According to the survey, the number of Californians either looking to...

Bill to Create Drug ‘OverDose Prevention Program’ Injection Sites Delayed Until Next Session

July 7, 2021 2:28 amJuly 6, 2021 6:23 pm

A bill to create drug overdose prevention programs, including providing a “place to inject drugs while trained staff are available to help if they suffer accidental overdoses,” was pulled from the Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday, with the committee instead...

U.S. Capitol Police To Open Up New Branch Office in San Francisco

July 6, 2021 3:40 pm

In an announcement on Tuesday, U.S. Capitol Police said that a new regional field office would be opening up in California due to the high number of threats located in California and the Western U.S. in general. The California field...

11 California Cities Make ‘Most Dangerous In U.S.’ List 2021

June 27, 2021 11:13 amJuly 1, 2021 7:12 am

Last week the Globe reported on the most dangerous cities in California. “Most interesting is the FBI graph below showing how crime in California had dropped, then began to rise again after 2014 – the year Proposition 47 was passed, and...

SF Supervisor Proposes Ordinance To Stop Landlords From Taking Away Apartment Amenities

June 17, 2021 2:48 pmJune 17, 2021 2:48 pm

San Francisco Supervisor Ben Mandelman proposed a new ordinance at the Board of Supervisors meeting this week that would halt landlords from taking away any amenities from renters that were originally offered, such as laundry rooms and parking. For several...