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.
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.
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 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.
SF Proposition Results for Nov. 5 Election
Nov 11, 2024 · After days of anticipation, the highly contentious Proposition K has passed, with 53.93% of voters in favor. The measure, which will permanently close a 2-mile stretch of the Great Highway, has sparked numerous debates in recent months over its potential impacts on traffic and businesses on the city’s west side. Voters in the Sunset District, which contains the affected road, overwhelmingly ...
Proposition J — Oversight of City Funds for Youth Programs
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to put Proposition J on the November ballot. In the official proponent letter, signed by all supervisors but Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, they say it would enhance the “transparency and efficiency” of how the city allocates money to help young people.. That would include better tracking of dollars that City Hall gave the San Francisco ...
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.
SF Cannot Prove It Follows Encampment ‘Sweeps’ Policy
Dec 20, 2024 · Madison Alvarado/San Francisco Public Press. On the morning of Dec. 11, an unhoused woman named Amber separates items she wants to keep as Public Works employees clear out the encampment where she had been living, near the …
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.
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 …