Tacchini To Residents: Ask for More Police and Use Bleach
By HÉLÈNE GOUPIL Twenty frustrated residents and District 9 candidate Eric Storey filled My Corner Cafe on 26th Street and South Van Ness on Thursday to hear Captain Stephen Tacchini and two beat...
View ArticlePee Chronicles: Part I
A Virgil Street resident uses wood shavings to cover the area used as a public bathroom. By HÉLÈNE GOUPIL Connie Weber, a retiree who has lived in the Mission since 1939, pointed to a corner between...
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By DIANA MONTAÑO To most of the day laborers waiting for work on 26th Street, the urine on Virgil Street can be blamed on the bolos, or drunks. “They have no shame, they don’t care,” said a worker who...
View ArticleDay Laborers Wait for Work — All Day Long
Javier Hernandez is crouched beneath a lamppost at the corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez Streets, hiding from the unusually hot 10 a.m. sun by squeezing his body into the thin sliver of shade. He’s...
View ArticlePee Chronicles: Part IV
By STEVE SALDIVAR On an early Wednesday afternoon, two men hurled dice up against the sidewalk on Garfield Square at 26th and Harrison streets. The dice rolled until one of the men dug into the...
View ArticleMay Day Live
In more than 140 countries, May 1 is celebrated as a workers’ holiday. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and celebrations by hundreds of thousands of working people throughout the...
View ArticleRecent Kidnappings Target Latinos
By AMANDA MARTINEZ In at least two cases this month assailants have forced victims walking in the Mission District late at night into vehicles, held them long enough to rob them and then released them...
View ArticleCesar Chavez Redesign Could Relocate Day Laborers
En Español City agencies have been collaborating and reaching out to the community to redesign Cesar Chavez Street with new bike lanes, trees and safer crosswalks, but with much of the design planning...
View ArticleMyMission: Adriana Camarena, Interviewer Extraordinaire
MyMission is a series of interviews with a diverse group of people, each with their own experience of the Mission. Our earliest interviews are highlighted in our recently published zine, MyMission: I...
View ArticleEl Colectivo de Mujeres Se Une con Servicios para la Comunidad de la Calle...
El pasado jueves, en el Centro Eric Quezada para la Cultura y Política, ubicado en la calle Valencia y 16, se celebró con música, baile y mariachis la unión de varias instituciones del Distrito de la...
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