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On the eve of Iran war, the ‘Secretary of War’ fought with the Boy Scouts. He didn’t win.
Scouting America’s appeasement of Pete Hegseth has been framed as a capitulation. But the actual concessions appear to be relatively minor.
Troubling allegations were raised about Stephen Sherrill’s appointment. Do voters care?
How the D2 supervisor got his job may not matter as much to constituents in the Marina, Pacific Heights and Cow Hollow as how he’s doing
Mayor Lurie turned anti-Jewish rantings of a solitary loon into indictment of S.F.
The mayor’s inaccurate statement allowed gullible rubes and bad-faith trolls to bash this city as a hotbed of organized, political antisemitism.
How 900 feet of rusty metal overtook Millennium Tower as the biggest metaphor for San Francisco
Unable to find a shipyard operator or sell its dry docks, San Francisco’s port has allotted $61M to raze them — lest they sink and triple the cost.
SFUSD fumbled the teachers strike
The district’s write-the-term-paper-in-the-hallway strategy put it on the back foot from the get-go in this week’s walkout
S.F. teachers strike: Schools to close for 4th day, negotiations slow
Schools will remain closed for the fourth day of the San Francisco teachers strike. The superintendent appeared more frustrated than before.
S.F. teachers strike: Schools to stay closed Wednesday, sides far apart
San Francisco teachers are back on the picket line Tuesday for Day 2 of the city’s first educators strike in almost 50 years.
Teachers, others shocked to get SFUSD ‘assignments’ for strike day
On late Friday, workers were given ‘redeployment assignments’ to ‘Staff Centers’ opened because of Monday’s school closures. They’re confused.
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