Raising teachers' self esteem through massage - and other "education" moments from Gavin's enormous State of the City Address.
By Benjamin Wachs
Every now and again, Gavin Newsom finds his moment.
In the last State-of-the-Citysode, it was a brief minute when he was talking about why the Laguna Hospital bond failed so badly, and why he thinks San Francisco General won't. I don't buy his explanation, but for that one minute he was clear, reasonably concise, passionate and convincing; you got
If college is intended to brace young people for the real world, consider San Francisco State students well prepared. They're paying more, receiving less, and coping with conditions most Americans thought were more likely to plague a university where classes are occasionally canceled due to rocket attacks.
With budget cuts to the California State University System hitting home at the same time as a 10 percent tuition increase, SFSU students are finding their candles burned at both ends. Studen
A nonprofit school known by the acronym SOUL is working to undermine The System with The System's own money. But does SOUL teach anti-capitalist subversion -- or how to sell out?
Wherein a handful of politicos, a party that's trying not to be a laughingstock, and the singer in a '70s disco cover band unite to rewrite San Francisco politics or try to, anyway
Rick HallLorelei
Lee, left, seen here with fellow porn star Bobbi Starr, has put her San
Francisco State undergrad degree to good use already​
In 1995, San Francisco State professor Geoffrey Marcy, and his student, Paul Butler, created an ingenious optical device allowing them to detect evidence of planets outside our solar system. Since then, the team have discovered more than half the extra-solar planets known to man.On Monday New York Daily News scribes Kerry Burke and Rich Schapiro, wrote