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Women’s groups are expressing alarm as San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has decreased the rate at which domestic violence charges are filed, allowing many suspects to go free and potentially putting women and children in danger.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not have been elected to Congress in the first place were it not for Republicans in San Francisco she tricked into backing her over another Democrat, who was openly gay.

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) voted unanimously on Tuesday to reverse a controversial decision earlier this year to rename 44 schools, including those named for presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to curtail the homeless epidemic by giving people vouchers to use to rent apartments in the city.

A San Francisco-area group called “We Come Together” is trying to keep elderly Asians in the community safe from hate-crime attacks by distributing hundreds of whistles to them.

The former sheriff of San Francisco, California, released more than 2,400 criminal illegal aliens back into United States communities during her tenure, a lawsuit alleges. 

A girl reportedly wrote “Help… Robbers!” on the wall of a bathroom she was allegedly forced into by one of two men who are said to have ransacked her family’s home in San Francisco on Friday.

The organization behind the recall Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom effort is now facing charges of racism for calling coronavirus the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and other leading officials are demanding that San Francisco Unified School District Vice President Alison Collins resign over tweets in 2016 in which she accused Asian Americans of being insufficiently critical of President-elect Donald Trump.

The city of San Francisco will use a $125 million budget surplus to fund “cultural equity” in the arts and help “undocumented families.”

A woman who allegedly coughed on an Uber driver in San Francisco recently was charged Wednesday with multiple felonies.

A man rushed over to save a 75-year-old woman who was allegedly attacked during an apparent carjacking recently at a Safeway in San Francisco.

Parents of children in the San Francisco Unified School District held a rally Saturday to demand five full days of in-person school instruction, rather than the hybrid model that the teachers’ union and the district have accepted for school reopening.

San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai had his car broken into outside City Hall. Last month, the mayor announced plans to redistribute police funds.

CA state Sen. Scott Weiner wants to repeal a loitering law he said targets “women of color” and transgender “women” prostitutes.

The $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill proposed by President Joe Biden and approved by Democrats in Congress “will erase the majority of San Francisco’s projected $650 million budget deficit over the next two years,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

SF is spending $16.1 million for 262 tents for the homeless  — an investment that breaks down to $190 a night or $61,000 per tent per year.

A TV journalist was robbed of his camera at gunpoint while he was reporting on car thefts in the San Francisco area, authorities said.

San Francisco’s iconic cable cars will run in time for holiday shopping, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said Tuesday.

Parents in San Francisco fed up with shuttered schools have launched a campaign to recall three elected members of the local school board.

Democrats nixed an amendment to redirect $140 million from a subway in Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco to mental health services for children.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed released a plan Thursday to redistribute $120 million from the city’s law enforcement budget to projects aimed at helping the city’s black minority.

After months of draconian coronavirus restrictions, school officials want to open two California Bay Area high schools for one hour a week.

Teachers’ unions held rallies in San Francisco and Los Angeles on Saturday against re-opening public schools in the area until a list of safety demands are met.

Berkeley, California, is considering a plan to end zoning for single-family homes by December 2022.

San Francisco has become a “desolate” city over the past year, as the pandemic forced people to work from home — and companies learned to embrace it.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has issued guidance on having safe sex in the coronavirus era.

A gay white dad of a mixed-race child was denied a spot on a SF school parent committee because he would hurt the diversity of the group.

A Tesla driver’s dashcam recorded the moment an alleged smash-and-grab robbery occurred Friday in San Francisco traffic.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to San Francisco voting to rename several high schools by stating that “when you can’t put out the fires and you can’t build a house,” it makes it seem

San Francisco’s school board is planning to drop merit-based admissions to Lowell High School because of concerns that the tests reinforce “systemic racism” at the majority-Asian institution.

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has deemed acronyms a “symptom of white supremacy culture.” In response, its performing arts department will dump the acronym “VAPA” in favor of the name “SFUSD Arts Department.” According to the director of the department, “The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand the acronym.”

San Francisco police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of murder following a recent attack on an 84-year-old man in the Anza Vista neighborhood.

San Francisco could rename one of the schools whose names it is dropping due to allegedly “racist” connotations after the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who performed often in the city in the psychedelic heyday of the 1960s.

The San Francisco Board of Education voted to rename 44 of the city’s schools, claiming that prominent figures from American history, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Paul Revere, were tied to racist incidents. The committee based their decisions on Wikipedia and other wildly inaccurate information to source its claims.

The San Francisco school board has voted to remove names of dozens of schools that some people have deemed to be offensive.