Urban Alchemy in the News
SF-based nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which I discussed here and here, is in the news this week. First, there was BBC coverage, and this morning a lengthy investigative story in the
Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Guard Vaccine Mandate
In an unfortunate, albeit not unexpected, decision, the Ninth Circuit reversed Judge Tigar’s vaccine mandate. You can read the decision in full here. The reasons, in short, are as follows:
Endorsement: NO on Chesa Boudin’s Recall
The unbearable lightness of recalling people in California means that we have to be grownups and distinguish between two very different scenarios: saving our city or state by getting rid
At SFPD, All the Double Coils Go in the Same Box
Last week I received a call from a journalist following up an astonishing story: the San Francisco police apparently used DNA evidence collected from a sexual assault survivor years ago
The House Always Wins: Quasi-Judicial Immunity in the Valley Fever Prison Case
This morning at the Western Society of Criminology Annual Meeting I’ll present Chapter 6 of our upcoming book FESTER, which I’ve tentatively titled The House Always Wins. In this chapter
Impending Closure of Death Row
A couple of days ago I spoke on KCRW about the announced closure of death row at San Quentin. Here’s the story as it appeared on the KCRW website, followed