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Marin City's new 'Get Out the Vote' campaign features faces of local kids
With the final push to Election Day on, a group in the North Bay is less worried about who you're voting for and more focused on whether you're voting at all.Local kids are the faces of a new banner campaign in Marin City that is trying to get out the vote."I'm too young to vote. What is your excuse?" said 8-year-old Kashmiere Gomez, referring to the words written alongside her photo on banners on Donahue Street."We're showing people to vote and do the right thing," she said, while walking alongside Felecia Gaston, the executive director of Performing Stars, a nonprofit...
California's Prop 2 would provide $10 billion to help repair dilapidated schools
Funding for public schools is a big issue on the November ballot with more than ten billion dollars on the line in the statewide ballot measure Prop 2. The proposition would help school districts repair, upgrade, and construct new facilities, though opponents say it would just overburden taxpayers with more debt.Ongoing construction at West Portal Elementary in San Francisco will replace rows of portable classrooms into a state-of-the art facility. "A lot of students were in our temporary classrooms that were decades old," said West Portal Elementary teacher Emily Harris. Harris has seen the challenges students and faculty face daily. "When students...
Fleet Week disaster drill brings local, state and federal agencies together
When a disaster strikes, like the Loma Prieta Earthquake did nearly 35 years ago, you see boots on the ground and a massive coordinated response.But in order for that to happen, all of the players involved need to be running the same playbook.That's why more than 200 people from local, regional, state, and federal agencies, came together to participate in the Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) drill during Fleet Week.That included Elijah Saunders, who works for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. This was his first time participating in a drill like this."As a city worker, you're what's...
Graffiti at Manny’s investigated as hate crime by SFPD
The San Francisco Police Department is officially investigating an Oct. 6 graffiti incident at Manny’s cafe as a hate crime. Last Sunday, during a thousands-strong pro-Palestine, pro-Lebanon demonstration on the eve of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the subsequent Israeli retaliation, a man was caught on video spraypainting the phrases “Zionist out of Frisco,” “arms embargo now,” “Dems fund murder,” and “Manny is a Zionist murderer”in black on the storefront of Manny’s, the political meeting space and cafe at 16th and Valencia. Later, in a seemingly separate incident, a green tag reading“death 2 the enemy” was graffitied on the cafe.
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