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A costly new Muni platform - 320 feet long, replacing a nearby one that's 130 feet long - is slated for the new Warriors arena. A costly new Muni platform - 320 feet long, replacing a nearby one that's 130 feet long - is slated for the new Warriors arena.
Thousands of people poured into San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza this afternoon for the March For Our Lives rally, one of many events across the U.S. calling lawmakers to combat what organizers say is an epidemic of gun violence. Drawing on impetus from the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that killed 17 people and injured dozens more, the March for Our Lives rally was largely put together by young people and students nationwide demanding that lawmakers come up with tighter gun control laws.
As a retired teacher, I disagree strenuously with Anna Mae Maly's assertion that “teachers are owned by the Democratic Party.” About 300,000 individuals teach in California, and their political affiliations reflect the same range as the state's population does. While teachers do not leave their constitutional rights at the classroom door, neither do they “use their classrooms for their personal propaganda and partisan activism garbage.” Teachers have a curriculum to follow and testing to prepare students for, which allows no classroom time for much else.
Anita Hill heads to speak during The Barbara Lee & Elihu Harris Lecture Series at the Oakland Marriott City Center, Saturday, March 10, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif. Anita Hill heads to speak during The Barbara Lee & Elihu Harris Lecture Series at the Oakland Marriott City Center, Saturday, March 10, 2018, in San Francisco, Calif.
A program that temporarily shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation was scheduled to end Monday but court orders have forced the Trump administration to keep issuing renewals, easing the sense of urgency.
Hundreds of activists gathered on Wednesday outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building here to protest the arrests of more than 150 undocumented immigrants in recent days. Local activist groups organized the "emergency rally" to respond to the mass arrests in Northern California, just two weeks after more than 200 people were arrested in similar raids in the Los Angeles area.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein failed to win the official endorsement of the California Democratic Party as she seeks her fifth term, another sign that the party is divided over how best to battle Republicans in Washington. Democratic activists were more eager to back her primary challenger, state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, who is touting himself as a fresh face with stronger progressive credentials, particularly on immigration.
Harris's endorsement of her fellow California Democrat was not surprising. Before he was lieutenant governor, Newsom was mayor of San Francisco and Harris was district attorney.
In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Zarate, acquitted of murder in a San Francisco case that prompted immigration debate has pleaded not guilty to federal gun charges.
California's attorney general announced Monday that his office will oversee reforms at the San Francisco Police Department that were recommended by federal officials after the U.S. Department of Justice's decision to scale back a program that helped departments improve community relations. Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the California Department of Justice will evaluate and publicly report how the department is applying the 272 recommendations made by the DOJ under the Obama Administration.
A federal judge in Boston is blocking the government from deporting dozens of Christian Indonesians living in New Hampshire while they're given a chance to fight against their removal. A federal judge in Boston is blocking the government from deporting dozens of Christian Indonesians living in New Hampshire while they're given a chance to fight against their removal.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to have a challenge to the law reconsidered by an expanded 11-judge panel. San Francisco appealed for the rarely granted 11-judge review after a three-judge panel ruled last year that the city law burdened the First Amendment free-speech rights of soda advertisers.
In one of the largest days of protest in U.S. history, millions took to the streets Saturday one day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. The largest protest was the Women's March on Washington, where more than 500,000 packed the streets.
This file photo taken on September 10, 2017 shows DACA recipient and appliance repair business owner Erick Marquez during a protest in support of DACA in Los Angeles, California. San Francisco-based Judge William Alsup issued his 49-page ruling on January 9, 2018, ordering the administration of US President Donald Trump to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , an Obama-era program that provided legal status to young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children.
WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration's decision to end special protections for about 200,0000 Salvadoran immigrants filled many Salvadoran families with dread Monday, raising the possibility that they will be forced to abandon their roots in the U.S. and return to a violent homeland they have not known for years, even decades. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen gave Salvadorans with temporary protected status until Sept.
In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, a homeless undocumented immigrant acquitted of killing Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier ,is scheduled to be sentenced on a lesser gun charge Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, a homeless undocumented immigrant acquitted of killing Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier ,is scheduled to be sentenced on a lesser gun charge Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
President Donald Trump is taking credit for the safety of the U.S. aviation system even though it is being run by a holdover from the previous administration and has avoided any commercial passenger fatalities for several years before he took office. "Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation," Trump said in a tweet Tuesday morning.
Regent Norman Pattiz speaks during a meeting of the UC Board of Regents while Eloy Ortiz Oakley listens at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.