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San Francisco cannabis sales slip continues in 2024
In the first three months of 2024, San Francisco recorded $46.7 million in taxable cannabis sales, marking the first time in at least five years that sales dipped below $50 million in a quarter. This represents a $5.6 million decrease from the previous quarter — and $7.1 million less than the same period last year. The latest numbers, courtesy of the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, mark a...
SF nonprofits say vital city programs would suffer under mayor’s budget
San Francisco budget season is now in full swing, and the battle lines are coming into sharper focus. This week, a coalition of dozens of nonprofit, labor and community groups has been combing through the long-awaited budget proposal issued by Mayor London Breed last Friday — a proposal that attempts to close a nearly $800 million two-year deficit while also maintaining spending on key priorities like public safety, reducing homelessness and spurring economic revitalization. ...
SF anti-Trump demonstrators plan to give ex-president the bird
San Francisco is giving the bird to former President Donald Trump, who will be in The City Thursday to attend a fundraiser in Pacific Heights that is being hosted by tech billionaires. Anti-Trump demonstrators plan to welcome him into The City by floating a 33-foot-tall inflatable chicken that bears a striking resemblance to Trump along San Francisco Bay. Known as the “Trump Chicken,” the golden-haired inflatable bird will sport a black-and-white prisoner shirt in reference to the former president’s conviction on 34 felonies in New...
Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside Harris’ SF fundraising stop
A group of about 100 protestors rallied outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ fundraising event in the Mission on Wednesday, calling attention to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Harris was in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon to attend a reelection fundraiser leading up to the November presidential election, a day before former President Donald Trump was set to attend a campaign fundraiser in Pacific Heights. Demonstrators criticized Harris and the United...
Bargaining table awaits for newly formed Kaiser residents union
Medical residents and fellows at Kaiser Permanente facilities in San Francisco and throughout Northern California said they are looking forward to negotiating what they argue are much-needed cost-of-living increases at the bargaining table after voting to unionize late last month. The National Labor Relations Board on May 31 approved residents’ vote to join the Service International Employees Union-affiliated Committee of Interns and Residents, a CIR spokesperson told The Examiner. The...
Bayview-Hunters Point gets free grocery store to address food insecurity
A 4,000-square-foot market is opening in Bayview-Hunters Point on Wednesday, giving residents facing food insecurity in The City’s southeast corridor the chance to shop from a free selection of groceries while also connecting them to social services. Located at 5030 3rd St., the District 10 Community Market will serve low-income residents who meet set criteria, including receiving public assistance, having children in the household or a diet-related illness. Residents must also be referred by a community organization in the market’s referral network and live in...
Bird flu landing in The City is ‘a blip on the radar,’ experts say
While San Francisco recorded its first bird flu cases of the year last month, local experts say that San Franciscans don’t need to be concerned about the disease just yet. “It came and went,” said Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist and head of the Division of Prevention Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. “The newer samples are negative, so it was a blip on the radar.” ...
OpenAI, Google workers call on companies to let them discuss risks
Even as OpenAI, Google and other artificial-intelligence developers have been trying to tout the latest capabilities of their technologies, safety concerns about AI have started to steal the spotlight. A group of current and former employees of OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind AI research lab released an open letter Tuesday arguing that in the absence of government regulations, workers might be the only ones that can prevent their technologies from doing harm. But such workers are constrained from speaking out about the risks they see by...
UCSF study finds surprising driver of cancer care’s carbon footprint
The biggest source of emissions in hospitals and clinics providing radiation treatment for cancer are the systems used to operate buildings and equipment, according to a new UCSF study published last week. The latest study, published in The Lancet Oncology journal, looked specifically at radiotherapy’s contribution. It examined radiotherapy programs for 10 different cancer types at four institutions across the country — including UCSF — and foundthat 74% of greenhouse-gas emissions at radiotherapy facilities came from the buildings’ general energy usage. HVAC systems accounted for...
This week could be The City’s hottest this year
San Franciscans are bracing for potentially the hottest stretch of the year with scorching temperatures set to boil a large swath of the West Coast this week. Temperatures will rise into the 80s in some parts of The City as early as Tuesday, which would approach San Francisco’s hottest day of the year so far, National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Gass said. The forecast temperatures would not break historical records. ...
SF State professor who teaches history made it as Stop AAPI Hate co-founder
Russell Jeung is used to teaching history. He’s spent the last 22 years as an Asian American studies professor at San Francisco State. But over the past four years, he hasn’t just taught history — he has become a part of it. Jeung is one of the founders of Stop AAPI Hate, one of the catalysts for the groundswell of activism after the nationwide rise in hate crimes against Asian...
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