Security upgrades yet to reach SFO
On Christmas day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man claiming ties to al-Qaida, attempted to set off an incendiary device he smuggled aboard a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam.
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Foster youth housing needs federal bailout
Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed 2010-2011 budget includes a list of services that will be eliminated unless the state receives a $6.9 billion bailout from the federal government. According to the governor’s Web site, this includes $36 million for funding the Transitional Housing Placement Plus Pr
Eyewitness recounts Haiti disaster
Civil rights attorney and Haitian democracy activist Walter Riley spoke at Revolution Books in Berkeley Jan. 22 about his experience in Haiti during and after the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince.
City attorney draws protesters
The deadline for implementing San Francisco's amended sanctuary city policy is rapidly approaching, and immigrant rights groups, the city attorney’s office and U.S. attorney are embroiled in a legal back and forth.
Local 2 demands benefits
Unite Here Local 2, the union which represents hotel and restaurant workers in San Francisco and San Mateo counties, has been picketing city hotels.
Bumping stresses resources
By Don Clyde The Guardsman
Many City College departments already strained by class cuts and increased enrollment are also being affected by a wave of losses and shifts of skilled clerical staff that began last November due to a process known as bumping.
City College, as well as San Francisco
Campus groups launch Haiti relief effort
By Don Clyde The Guardsman
Both the City College Associated Student Council and the City College French Club are launching fundraising and awareness campaigns to raise money for disaster relief in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
The magnitude 7.0 quake on Jan. 12 centered near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, flattened huge swathes