Cold War Human Radiation Experiments Pushed Ethical Boundaries
Dec 9, 2024 · Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments Part 4: ETHICS | Exposed, an investigative series Memos reveal that a San Francisco Navy lab risked running afoul of human rights declarations in its quest for data to aid national defense.
SF Proposition Results for Nov. 5 Election
Nov 5, 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 ...
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:
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.
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.
Proposition F — Delay Officer Retirement to Bolster Police Staffing
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. Proposition F would help sustain the San Francisco Police Department’s personnel levels while recruitment and training worked toward filling widespread vacancies resulting from attrition, according to the measure’s co-authors, including supervisors Matt Dorsey and Aaron Peskin, who is running for mayor.
He Didn't Vote While Homeless. Now He Organizes Others.
Dec 10, 2024 · SF to Offer Some Homeless Migrant Families Temporary Hotel Stays, as the Rest Languish By Madison Alvarado | April 24, 2024. Faced with an influx of unhoused migrant families into San Francisco, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing will offer between 100 and 150 households temporary stays in hotels in the next year.
Proposition C — New Inspector General to Fight Local Corruption
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The measure’s supporters hope it would let San Francisco lead the effort to root out bad actors at City Hall. “Rather than having the FBI get to the bottom of our dirty laundry, we can have our own city do it,” said Aaron Peskin, president of the Board of Supervisors, at a July public meeting.Peskin wrote the measure and is running for mayor.
Navy Lab in SF Became Hub for Human Radiation Experiments
Nov 25, 2024 · The Navy’s San Francisco lab was a major Cold War research facility with a unique focus on “radiological defense,”📄 techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.