San Francisco November 2024 Voter Guide - sfpublicpress.org
Oct 7, 2024 · Independent, Nonprofit, In-Depth Local News. See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a nonpartisan analysis of measures on the San Francisco ballot, for the election occurring Nov. 5, 2024.
Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point
Image above: Hundreds of blue-collar shipyard workers were exposed to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation while attempting to “decontaminate” the USS Gasconade and other vessels hit by a 1946 atomic bomb test in the Pacific and brought to San Francisco for study. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. Color illustration by Reid Brown.
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:
After Atomic Test Blunder, U.S. Allowed Human Radiation Studies
Dec 2, 2024 · The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut and canvas booties covering their shoes, workers from the Navy’s shipyard at Hunters Point in late 1946 began to board ships irradiated by an atomic bomb test over the summer.
Proposition O — Protect Access to Reproductive Care
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.
Shuttered Radiation Lab a Health Risk for Growing Neighborhood
Dec 16, 2024 · During that time, the lab also exposed San Francisco. When the facility closed in 1969, Atomic Energy Commission inspectors noted “significant radioactive contamination📄” in several buildings, some of which “could not be removed📄.”More than half a century later, as a massive residential development with thousands of planned homes rises close to …
State Approves Closing SF’s Great Highway to Cars
Dec 12, 2024 · The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a permit that will allow San Francisco to close a section of the Great Highway to car traffic permanently. The permit allows the city to close the roadway to cars between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard — known as the Upper Great Highway — as early as spring 2025.
Probing Claims About SF Proposition K’s Traffic Impacts
Oct 31, 2024 · Perhaps no local issue in this election is more contentious than Proposition K, which would permanently close a 2-mile stretch of the Great Highway to cars and move it closer to becoming a park.. Supporters and opponents have sparred over the implications for traffic, with the measure’s backers arguing that drivers would have only slightly longer commutes, and detractors rejecting that ...
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.
SF Latinx Residents Test Mental Health App
Nov 22, 2024 · This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast, “Civic.”Click the audio player below to hear the full story. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco’s Latinx residents experienced higher rates of infection and deaths, and greater losses of income and homes than did other ethnic groups. “We lost our jobs.