SF Politics [Update] Trump Administration Denies CA Request For Wildfire Disaster Relief, Then Reverses Itself After a late September request to the White House from Governor Gavin Newsom for a federal major disaster declaration in the wake of six of California's recent wildfires, FEMA and the president have responded with a big NO.
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Executive Order Banning WeChat After Rare Saturday Hearing in San Francisco After an unusual Saturday afternoon hearing in SF, a federal judge entered an order that temporarily blocked a Trump Administration mandate banning "downloads" of the Chinese-owned global messaging app WeChat — keeping it in popular app stores for at least a little while longer.
SF News Mike Pence Is Stopping Through The Bay Area and Monterey Next Week Our extra-special right-wing vice-president Mike Pence is making a couple of Republican fundraising stops in California next week, and dropping by the San Francisco Bay Area for a quick, not-easily-protested speaking engagement.
SF News Chronicle Publishes Op-Ed By Jeff Sessions Saying Sanctuary Cities Killed Kate Steinle In the spirit of discourse and hearing both sides, the Chronicle published opposing voices on the subject of sanctuary cities today, two for, and two against the system of non-cooperation with federal customs
SF News Twitter Sues Trump Administration For Ordering It To Unmask Anti-Trump Account In March, Twitter received a US Department of Homeland Security summons asking it to help identify the user or users behind one of the many "ALT" or resistance Twitter accounts that proliferated to
SF News H-1B Visa Rule Tightening Stokes Fears In Silicon Valley, But Threat Could Be Empty Google CEO sundar pichai at rally at Googleplex "the fight will continue" pic.twitter.com/cZOfn9FiGY— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) January 30, 2017 A policy guideline from the year 2000 that treats programmers with
