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Judge orders organic food for QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley, who claims his shamanic beliefs require it U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth agreed Wednesday to a request from Jacob Chansley, the 33-year-old "QAnon Shaman" arrested for participation in the Jan. 6 violent siege of the U.S. Capitol, that he be served only organic food in the D.C. correctional facility. Chansleys "shamanic belief system and way of life" includes a strict organic diet, his lawyer Albert Watkins wrote in a brief Wednesd...

10-year-old shows gratitude to hospital staff by cleaning their cars during a snowstorm Bundled up in his warmest winter gear, Christian Stone set off on Monday with one mission: to clean as many cars as possible in the Westerly Hospital parking lot. Stone, 10, lives in Westerly, Rhode Island, and thought that he could show his appreciation for health care workers by removing snow and ice from their cars, so they could easily go home after a long day at the hospital. "I was thinking theyve been...

San Francisco sues school district over closed campuses with no end in sight POLITICO 2/4/2021 By Mackenzie Mays © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images An aerial view of the schoolyard at Frank McCoppin Elementary School in San Francisco, California. SACRAMENTO — The city attorney for San Francisco, with support from Mayor London Breed, is suing San Francisco Unified and its school board over prolonged campus closures, saying school leaders "have no meaningful plan" to reopen cla...

Ida Mojadad (@idamoj) is a staff writer with the SF Examiner covering housing and education.  1:18 – Susan Solomon is President of the United Educators of San Francisco (@UESF). *We requested comment from SFUSD Board President Gabriela Lopez but did not hear back by air time. 1:27 – KPFA News: Following up on something we’ve been covering a lot — the complete mess that is California’s system for processing unemployment claims. The assembly insurance committee is now going through a...

SF files lawsuit against its own school district to force classrooms to reopen     San Francisco (KGO) — The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against its own school district in an effort to reopen in-person instruction. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, with the backing of Mayor London Breed, announced he had sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District in a statement and discussed it at a news conference. “It’s a shame it has come to t...

Bay Briefing: They have earned an F: S.F. will sue its own school district FacebookTwitterEmail Isaac Conde, 14 (left), and Joshua Conde, 16, walk toward Thurgood Marshall Academic High in San Francisco.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Feb. 3, and some S.F. streets might never be going back to their pre-pandemic traffic. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. 11 months and counting The fight over reopening San Francisco’s public schools will take a dramati...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against its own school district in an effort to reopen in-person instruction. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, with the backing of Mayor London Breed, announced he had sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District in a statement and discussed it at a news conference. "Its a shame it has come to this. The Board of Education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against its own school district in an effort to reopen in-person instruction. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, with the backing of Mayor London Breed, announced he had sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District in a statement and discussed it at a news conference. "Its a shame it has come to this. The Board of Education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against its own school district in an effort to reopen in-person instruction. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, with the backing of Mayor London Breed, announced he had sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District in a statement and discussed it at a news conference. "Its a shame it has come to this. The Board of Education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a...

By deciding to sue its own school board and district, San Francisco has opened up a new front on the battleground to open schools for in-person instruction. The city filed suit in the San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday for what City Attorney Dennis Herrera alleges are violations of a state law requiring districts to adopt a clear plan during the pandemic “to offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible,” as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, The operative term here i...