SF News 2016 Election Set Record For Highest Ever SF Voter Turnout San Francisco's in-person turnout at the polls on November 8th was nothing to write home about: Just about half of the city's registered voters made it to a polling place on election day
SF News #CalExit (Sadly) Can't Really Happen, But Group Files Petition For It Anyway You've probably had a few of these conversations in the last week in which at least one Californian says, referring to states that went red this election, "Well, we could just stop sending
SF News Zuckerberg Walks Back His Dismissal Of Fake News Problem, Says Facebook Will Take Steps To Combat Bulls**t Just a week ago, Mark Zuckerberg was calling it a "crazy idea" that a proliferation of fake news stories on Facebook, most of them favoring a conservative bias, helped Donald Trump win the
SF News Man Arrested In Bayview For Spraying Racist Graffiti The nation's rash of emboldened racism continues with an incident Thursday evening in the Bayview. The SFPD sent out a release regarding the arrest of and charges against 33-year-old David Chacon of San
SF News The Election of Donald Trump Has Caused A Spike In Crisis Hotline Use In SF Following the Democalypse of last week, some parts of the country i.e. every city are going through major anxiety crises and deep depressions while other parts of the country basically everywhere that
SF News SF Supervisors' Resolution: Climate Change Is Real, LGBT Rights Can't Change, And Black Lives Matter In a symbolic but powerful resolution that might even make our neighbors in far-left Berkeley a bit envious, the Board of Supervisors took time on Tuesday to pass a resolution thoroughly affirming the
SF News Who Will Replace Scott Wiener On the Board Of Supervisors? With District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener headed off to Sacramento, the Board of Supervisors is soon to be Wiener-less. Who will fill the gaping void on that governing body for the City and
SF News San Jose Teacher Tells Student Who Sat Through National Anthem He Could Be Deported Under Trump A PE teacher at Oak Grove High School in San Jose is currently on leave and could face disciplinary action after she allegedly made a deeply ignorant and offensive remark to a student
SF News Non-Muslim Woman With Lupus Attacked In Fremont For Wearing Headscarf; Taiwanese Church Vandalized Milpitas woman is apparent victim of hate crime while hiking #Mission Peak in #Fremont. Her story 5pm @kron4news pic.twitter.com/5352nRMNzE— @Rob Fladeboe kron4 (@KRON4RFladeboe) November 17, 2016 The disturbing stories continue
SF News Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Implies Too Many Asians Have Power In Silicon Valley On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to "drain the swamp" on Capitol Hill. Instead, he's made clear with his staff appointments so far that his intention is to pump it full of
SF News SF Teachers Circulate Lesson Plan Discussing Trump And His Supporters As Racist And Sexist The latest salvo against the President-Elect within our San Francisco bubble: A post-election newsletter to public school teachers from the United Educators of San Francisco includes an optional lesson plan referring to Donald
SF News Twitter Reportedly Bans Several Major 'Alt-Right' Trolls Twitter may have adjusted its hearing and could even be listening to the longstanding demands of its users. After releasing new muting tools today intended to curb online abuse, the company has reportedly
SF News Latina Woman Victim Of Alleged Hate Attack While Watching Children Near Fort Mason A Latina woman working as a nanny in SF's Marina district was physically and verbally attacked Monday in a hate crime at Fort Mason’s Great Meadow. As CBS 5 reports, the incident
SF News California Senator Barbara Boxer Takes Ceremonial Stab At Abolishing The Electoral College Though it's purely a gesture at this point in a Republican-led, lame duck Congress, retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer today filed legislation to abolish the Electoral College system. It's something that has been discussed
SF News Marquee At Turk And Larkin Known For Wise Quotations Is Finally Dumbstruck A photo posted by Valerie Luu (@valerieluu) on Nov 14, 2016 at 3:12pm PST The usually eloquent, often literary marquee at Kahn and Keville tire shop (Turk and Larkin) has been at
SF News Hate Crimes, Though Now Possibly On The Rise In The Bay Area, Remained Low Here In 2015 As more anecdotal and confirmed reports of hate crimes and hate speech arise in the local media and on your Facebook feeds in the wake of last week's election the assumption being that
SF News 'We Will Always Be San Francisco,' Mayor Declares At Unity Gathering Affirming Sanctuary City Policy San Francisco's often querulous political leadership was singing "Kumbaya" today at City Hall, with the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and others presenting a united liberal front at an innocuously named rally: "We
SF News [Update] Google's Top Search Result For Final Election Results Is Pro-Trump Site With False Vote Count Fact: No one cares about facts anymore, especially on the right and alt-right. As Americans increasingly prefer what Stephen Colbert once dubbed "truthiness" to truth itself, it's not respected news sources citing verified
Arts & Entertainment Hopeful Post-It Notes Appear On 'Walls Of Empathy' At Three SF BART Stations, Post-Election 16th BART plaza in SF. Wall of Empathy. pic.twitter.com/CQlN5iznNg— Jeff Hunt (@jeffnhunt) November 14, 2016 Inspired by a subway tunnel in New York that has become an outpouring of grief
SF News WTF: Trump Flag Appears On Haight Street The world has turned upside-down, everyone. The Upper Haight, i.e. Haight-Ashbury, i.e. the spiritual center of the hippie counterculture of 50 years ago, is now home to at least one Trump
SF News Inside Facebook, Worries Persist That The Site Helped Trump While Zuckerberg Continues To Reject That Concerns were reverberating around the internet last week that by aiding in the spread of fake news stories, many of them spreading falsehoods that were in Donald Trump's favor, Facebook may have had
SF News Friday Marks Fourth Night Of Anti-Trump Protests In Bay Area Skirmish line on Broadway at 6th to keep protestors off the 880 freeway in #Oakland. No ramp closures in place. pic.twitter.com/IkPkAVA1BU— CHP Oakland (@CHPoakland) November 12, 2016 "Trump is really
SF News War Photojournalist Beaten By Looting Anarchists During Oakland Trump Protests .@Oaklandish, opened by woman of color 2 celebrate pride of America's most progressive city. Lift her up, don't tear down. #oaklandprotest pic.twitter.com/Ci9tU7vHSq— Libby Schaaf (@LibbySchaaf) November 10, 2016 Kyle Ludowitz,
SF News Video: Captain On SFO-Departing Flight Addresses Passengers Following Racist Incident A captain on a United flight out of SFO was apparently forced to make a plane-wide announcement following a racist encounter onboard, apparently related to the election of Donald Trump. Details are few,
SF News Milpitas High School Principal Put On Leave After Telling Students 'F**k Donald Trump' The principal of Milpitas High School was placed on leave this week following the release of video showing him yelling "fuck Donald Trump" at a school-wide assembly. As CBS 5 reports, the popular
