S.F. shifts $3.75 million from law enforcement budgets to support Black business communities
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Mayor London Breed during a news conference at Chase Center, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. The city’s leaders will announced that S.F. is accelerating two of its climate policy goals. First, the city will commit to supplying 100% carbon-free electricity to CleanPowerSF customers by 2025, 5 years faster than originally planned. Second, the city will seek to become carbon-neutral, emitting no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, by 2045 instead of 2050.Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle
Mayor London Breed on Wednesday announced the distribution of a $3.75 million award intended to support training, technical assistance and neighborhood revitalization in San Francisco’s historically Black and African American small business communities.
Opinion: S.F. s working poor have it hard enough. Don t tow their cars, too
Miguel Bustos
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A tow truck impounds a car to the AutoReturn impound facility in San Francisco.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2018
It began with a $90 citation. It ended with 32-year-old MiQueesha Willis losing the home she shared with her 2-year-old son, Tobias. And it all went down because the city of San Francisco chose to tow her legally parked car.
Willis, a construction worker, was living in her car with her child due to the high cost of housing. She parked near the worksite, but often could not move her car to avoid parking tickets due to the demands of her job. Between taking care of Tobias and trying to find stable housing, the ticket became the last thing on her mind.
Earth Day 2021 in San Francisco!
April 28, 2021
On this Earth Day, April 22, 2020, more than 120 fired up Hunters Point and Treasure Island residents and supporters gathered in front of San Francisco City Hall to call for real environmental and social change that comes from the people in the wake of complete disinvestment and neglect of our Black communities by city leaders. But we also came together to acknowledge, learn about and celebrate the amazing work of people and organizations like Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai, Greenaction, Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Arieann Harrison, Elaine Brown, Dr. Aude Bouagnon, Ms. Margaret from West Oakland, investigative reporter Carol Harvey, Gloria Berry, attorneys Stanley Goff and Charles Bonner, Literacy for Environmental Justice and many more. – Photo: Griffin Jones
SAN FRANCISCO What does a safe space really look like? That question is reverberating among Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the country, after shootings last month at three Atlanta-area spas killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The attacks came amid a 150% increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic. Many of the reports of anti-Asian hate incidents and crimes are coming from California, a state that has long had one of the highest Asian populations in the country. Several high-profile attacks in the San Francisco Bay area have made headlines in recent months.
City Attorney Herrera dishes on City Hall scandal, schools lawsuit, Tenderloin drug dealers and more
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Dennis Herrera on major school districts’ reopening efforts: “I think what’s going on here in San Francisco is an abomination.”Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has fought for gun control, same-sex marriage rights, universal health care and climate change protections. He’s taken on everyone from President Trump to bad landlords.
But after 20 busy years, Herrera is leaving his job if Mayor London Breed’s nomination of him to lead the city’s troubled Public Utilities Commission wins approval. The FBI in November charged the agency’s previous general manager, Harlan Kelly, with accepting bribes from a city contractor and permit consultant.