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Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at least 1,073 dockworkers, military personnel, lab employees and others to radiation in technical exercises and medical experiments early in the Cold War.
November 2024 SF Voter Guide
Oct 7, 2024 · This is a nonpartisan analysis of the local measures on the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 5, 2024, election. Short on time? The team at “Civic,” our flagship radio program and podcast, provides brief rundowns of all the local measures:
Proposition C — New Inspector General to Fight Local Corruption
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The measure’s supporters hope it would let San Francisco lead the effort to root out bad actors at City Hall. “Rather than having the FBI get to the bottom of our dirty laundry, we can have our own city do it,” said Aaron Peskin, president of the Board of Supervisors, at a July public meeting.Peskin wrote the measure and is running for mayor.
Coercive Control: Abuse That Leaves No Marks
Nov 10, 2023 · A California law enacted in 2021 allows domestic violence victims to claim coercive control — a broad range of behaviors including humiliation, surveillance, intimidation, gaslighting and isolation that strips an intimate partner of a sense of autonomy and personhood.
Language Education Evolves in U.S., California
Jan 25, 2017 · 1906 The Naturalization Act of 1906 requires applicants for U.S. citizen-ship to be fluent in English.1917–1920Bilingual schools, particularly those teaching German, face backlash during and after World War I. Thirty-four states — 15 between 1919 and 1920 — enact laws that declare English as the basic language of instruction.. 1917–1920 Bilingual schools, particularly those teaching ...
Proposition K — Make Great Highway Car-Free, Possibly a Park
Oct 7, 2024 · Proposition K marks the latest chapter in a saga that began early in the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, the Board of Supervisors closed the Upper Great Highway to vehicle traffic so that residents could walk and bike there while social distancing, to slow the disease’s spread — a move that was widely popular.
Children Violently Removed by Court Order Celebrate Piqui's Law
Nov 10, 2023 · Two children who were violently removed from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home in October 2022 and placed into a court-ordered program to recant parental abuse allegations celebrated a victory last month when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting such programs.. On Oct. 13, Maya, 16, and Sebastian Laing, 12, and their allies celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 331, aka Piqui’s ...
Proposition H — Enable Earlier Retirement for Firefighters
Oct 7, 2024 · About Sylvie Sturm. Sylvie Sturm is an award-winning print journalist with 20 years of experience writing and editing for Canadian community newspapers. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2014, she’s shifted her attention towards audio journalism.
‘I Was Not Allowed to Have My Own Thoughts’: California Courts …
Jun 30, 2022 · The 2020 California law, introduced by state Sen. Susan Rubio, herself a survivor of domestic abuse, widens the definition of domestic violence and allows victims to introduce evidence of coercive control in applications in family court for a restraining order or child custody.The coercive control law applies to civil, but not criminal, cases. ...
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