ARTICLES' ARCHIVE

BUILT ON PROMISES, MANAGED BY CONTRADICTIONS
Price of Being Poor – Part 9 A federally subsidized “showpiece” of San Francisco redevelopment is telling its residents that mold, roaches, ventilation failures and

OPINION: THE BIG MAN, THE BURIED RECORD, AND THE CASE FOR FREEING KEVIN EPPS
A documented public-record argument for deeper scrutiny of the prosecution that sent San Francisco filmmaker and editor Kevin Epps to prison. There are moments when

THE BREAKING POINT – PART II
Behind the Walls: The Women, the Jail, the Oversight Failure, and the Politics of Selective Outrage in San Francisco Top Left: Julie D. Soo, Board

THE BREAKING POINT – PART I
How San Francisco Reduced Visible Homelessness While Driving More Poor People Into a Jail System in Crisis Photo Credits:(Bottom Left) A police officer stands by,

DISTRICT 10 DIDN’T COME FOR A PERFORMANCE. IT CAME LOOKING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
“At a community forum in Bayview-Hunters Point, candidates confronted decades of unanswered questions about housing, environmental justice, public safety, and the future of San Francisco’s

WHEN REPRESENTATION DISAPPEARS: PLAZA EAST, PUBLIC HOUSING, AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY
“A community can survive broken plumbing longer than it can survive broken democracy.” Photo credits: https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-public-housing-breed-19832585.php (Bottom Left)https://therealdeal.com/san-francisco/2022/09/02/sfs-plaza-east-housing-project-targeted-for-redevelopment/ (top left – 2022) – McCormack Baron

GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM, BRING KEVIN EPPS HOME
Why California’s Clemency Power Exists Photo Credits: Justice 4 Kevin Epps, Malik Washington &https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-endorses-former-british-government-aide-steve-hilton-california-governors-2026-04-06/The Seal of the Governor of the State of California is displayed

CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, informing enslaved African

LOCKED DOORS, OPEN QUESTIONS: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, AND THE CRISIS OF TRUST AT HUNTERS POINT
As new discoveries emerge inside a secured Navy building, Bayview-Hunters Point residents are asking whether the latest revelations represent an isolated incident—or another chapter in