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A vibe shift in San Francisco — and its new centrist mayor
While Democrats may seem in retreat around the country, the new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, is off to a promising ...
Silicon Valley city makes homeless people eligible for arrest if they refuse 3 offers of shelter
It's among the stricter anti-encampment deterrents proposed by elected officials since the Supreme Court in 2023 made it ...
Daniel Lurie’s former deputy chief of staff joins leadership at YBCA
After a rocky period of interim leadership and a public protest, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has announced the expansion of its executive team. Matthew Goudeau will join the downtown San ...
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San Bernardino County Approves $10.5B Budget, Boosts Homeless Services and Wildfire Prevention
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the county’s 2025-26 fiscal year budget during its June ...
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What Sara Fenske Bahat Learned Leading a Mayoral Transition Without a Playbook
Sara Fenske Bahat led San Francisco’s largest mayoral transition with no guide, creating systems, structure, and funding from ...
Fears of rise in homeless tent cities as rough sleeping is decriminalised: Angela Rayner is set to abolish 200-year-old law despite soaring numbers living on str…
The number of rough sleepers has risen dramatically since 2010, from 1,768 people thought to be sleeping rough on an average ...
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Wayne Mellinger: Richard Flacks a Radical Sociologist Who Made History — and Blintzes
When I arrived in Santa Barbara in 1983 to begin graduate studies in sociology at UC Santa Barbara, the only professor I knew by name was Richard Flacks.