August 2022 - Beyond Chron

In SF’s Tenderloin, The Drug Dealers Are Winning

Posted August 29, 2022 by Randy Shaw

DA Brooke Jenkins Can’t End Drug Markets Alone The Tenderloin’s open drug markets are thriving. The drug dealers are winning. Despite widespread media coverage the Tenderloin still has far more open drug dealer sites than when the pandemic began in Read More »

SF Chronicle Again Falsely Attacks Tenderloin SRO Hotels

Posted August 29, 2022 by Randy Shaw

False Photo Exposes Chronicle’s Anti-SRO Agenda The August 20, 2022 SF Chronicle story about a “day in the life” of the Tenderloin’s Pierre Hotel raises more troubling questions about how the paper covers SRO hotels. The paper used a false Read More »

Photo shows Freddy Puza lawn sign, Caroline Menjivar, Erin Darling, Natalya Zernitskaya

These Candidates Can Solve LA’s Regional Housing/Homelessness Crisis

Posted August 22, 2022 by Randy Shaw

Huge Impact For California Housing Politics These candidates will help end the LA region’s anti-housing politics:

Alex Fisch and Freddy Puza in Culver City
Caroline Torosis, Natalya Zernitskaya, and Jesse Zwick in Santa Monica
Chelsea Lee Byers in West Hollywood

New Book Exposes Mobster-Jazz Connection

Posted August 22, 2022 by Randy Shaw

Jazz Icons and the Mob Jazz in the United States emerged in the dark-lit clubs of New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, New York City and other cities. It’s popularity exploded during Prohibition, boosting its intersection with underground bars. Jazz also became Read More »

Back to School: Let’s Get our Kids Reading

Posted August 18, 2022 by Laurance Lem Lee

Raising Reading Proficiency Will Test New School Board Back to school is a great time of excitement, faith, and hope. As families finish preparing new outfits and new backpacks, literacy folks are also getting ready for what could be a Read More »

NUHW Mental Health Clinicians Strike Kaiser

Posted August 18, 2022 by Cal Winslow

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike. Picketing began early Monday morning in Fresno, Sacramento and San Jose – temperatures there were predicted to reach triple Read More »

Photo shows DA Brooke Jenkins' Aug 3 Press Event

Favoring Tenderloin Drug Dealers over Families is Not Progressive

Posted August 8, 2022 by Randy Shaw

Jenkins Prioritizes At-Risk Families, Seniors in Tenderloin “The plea offer withdrawals and new policy guidelines are all but certain to be blasted by public defenders and progressives.” SF Chronicle, August 3 Progressives will “blast” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ Read More »

Kansas Showed Power of Rural Outreach, Organizing

Posted August 8, 2022 by Jonathan Nathan

Is Greenwood County a Model? There was wonderful news in the results from the Kansas abortion ballot measure on Tuesday, and even more to be found in a granular reading of the data. Every county in the state tallied a Read More »