A San Francisco committee has proposed a $5 million one-time payment for each eligible Black resident as reparations. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, formed in 2020 under the city's human rights commission, was tasked with developing a plan to address the harm inflicted on African American communities...
SF Art Gallery Owner Who Hosed Down Homeless Woman Finds it ‘Hard to Apologize’
The owner of an art gallery seen in a viral video spraying water from a hose onto an unhoused woman is defending his actions and not apologizing. The video was recorded by the owner of a nearby café who saw the incident and found it cruel, given the weather conditions...
Apartment Rental Tech Company Exits San Francisco
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Landing, an apartment rental company created by the founder of Shipt, is moving its headquarters from San Francisco to Birmingham. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced the move Thursday morning. She said it will create 816 full-time jobs. “Landing is a fast-growing company with an innovative business model,...
San Francisco Police Make Rare Apology for Officer Shooting
SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare police apology Thursday, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott apologized for a police shooting last week that injured a burglary suspect. The man, 23-year-old Xavier Pittman, was shot in the wrist by a plainclothes officer as he was being arrested. Suspect Shot by Officer...
San Francisco School Board Suspends Plan to Rename Schools
SAN FRANCISCO — America’s founding fathers got a reprieve Tuesday in San Francisco, when the city’s scandal-plagued school board formally suspended a plan to rename 44 schools as part of a racial reckoning that critics said went too far. The city’s Board of Education, which convened on Zoom, voted unanimously...
San Francisco School Board Set to Vote on School Renaming, Again
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a much-criticized decision to purge 44 schools of names it said were linked to racism, sexism or other injustices, a turnaround aimed at avoiding costly litigation and toning down outrage at what critics denounced as ill-timed activism. Just...
San Francisco School Board Member Sues Over Tweet Response
SAN FRANCISCO — The former vice president of San Francisco’s school board is suing the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip her of the position because of tweets she wrote in 2016 that said Asian Americans used ’’white supremacist” thinking. Alison Collins filed the lawsuit Wednesday in...
Factual Inaccuracies Found in the Research Behind Renaming San Francisco Schools
[aggregation-styles] KGO-Television SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The San Francisco School Board has been criticized for trying to rename 44 schools. It has been controversial because apparently not enough research was put into it, or in some cases, the committee that advised the school board got the facts wrong. The School...
San Francisco to rename 44 schools with ‘racist’ namesakes, including Washington, Lincoln, Feinstein
[aggregation-styles] SF Gate San Francisco will rename 44 schools, including campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The near-unanimous Monday vote by the San Francisco Board of Education, with only one dissenter, comes after years of debate — and some...
Guilty Plea in Deaths of 36 People in Bay Area Warehouse Fire
OAKLAND — The master tenant of a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse where 36 people perished when a fire ignited during a 2016 dance party pleaded guilty Friday to the deaths, avoiding a second trial after the first ended in a hung jury. Derick Almena, 50, pleaded guilty to 36...