Conversation With Campos
Editor’s note: With this column, Mission Local is resuming its biweekly conversations with District 9 Supervisor David Campos, addressing issues and events in the Mission. If you have questions for...
View ArticleShadowing Mission Police: Alarms in the Night
On a cold, rainy night the Mission District is quiet, except for the alarms. Officers Tim Davis and David Radford have to check when an alarm goes off, to make sure there are no break-ins — even...
View ArticleCatholic Archbishop Demands Immigration Reform
As national lawmakers debate an immigration bill pending in the senate, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has launched a campaign to engage families around the Bay Area to demand meaningful reform. San...
View ArticleA Veteran’s Home
The room is filled with sunlight. Everything looks new and spotless. Victor Fleming sits on a chair eating an orange lollipop and looks at his dog. It’s been a little more than seven months since he...
View ArticleDA Hailed by CARECEN
The Mission’s Central American Resource Center hailed San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon’s opinion piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle about the federal government’s immigration-hold...
View Article‘Undocumented and Unafraid’ Profiled in Today’s Bay Guardian
In this week’s San Francisco Bay Guardian, the cover story is about immigrant protestors who are undocumented and unafraid. In San Francisco, a sanctuary city for immigrants, will more immigration...
View ArticleCrime Recap: Two Assaults and a Burglary
A little after 9 p.m. Sunday, a man hit a woman in the face with a glass bottle as she waited at a bus stop on Mission Street between 24th and 25th. The woman was treated for minor injuries at the...
View ArticleNew Video of Valencia Gardens Incident Emerges, Protest Planned
Another cell phone video of last Friday’s violent altercation between SFPD and San Francisco residents at Valencia Gardens surfaced on YouTube today. The brawl, sparked by plainclothes officers...
View ArticleA King of Cats Forced Out, Says ‘Sorrow Not’ for Him
Bender’s Bar, half past eight o’clock: Jimmy Broustis, king of cats, breaks the set and watches a stripe ball sink into a corner pocket. As the table settles, Dave Chisholm, an old friend, waits his...
View ArticleUncertain Future: SF’s Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
A police cruiser sat in the center divider on Valencia Street Thursday morning, observing but not interfering with protesters displaying images of fetuses and calling out to clients at a Planned...
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