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David Horowitz

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SF State's quad on Sept. 2, 2020. (Jun Ueda / Golden Gate Xpress)

Concerns over safety, economy surround Fall 2021 return to classrooms

David Horowitz Dec 18, 2020

Last week’s announcement that most classes would return to campus next fall raised concerns among community members over what safety measures SF State would take and whether requiring students to return...

Vaccine distribution begins for San Francisco’s frontline healthcare workers

David Horowitz Dec 15, 2020

In what officials hope is a turning point nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare workers at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital became the first residents in San Francisco...

Expanding teacher development center to launch new writing pedagogy institute

David Horowitz Dec 9, 2020

Nothing could have prepared longtime English professor Jolie Goorjian for the first day of the fall semester. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know what I’m doing — I shouldn’t be doing...

Fearing overwhelmed ICUs, California officials brace for winter COVID-19 surge

David Horowitz Dec 9, 2020

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Education Secretary extends federal student loan moratorium to Jan. 31

David Horowitz Dec 9, 2020

Those fearing the looming expiration of the federal student loan moratorium can heave a temporary sigh of relief as a one-month extension, from Dec. 31 to Jan. 31, 2021, was granted amid the financial...

SF health officer appointed to lead California Health Department

David Horowitz Dec 9, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday appointed San Francisco Health Officer Tomás Aragón as director of California’s Department of Public Health, putting the city’s top health official in charge of the state...

Biden taps California attorney general to lead nation’s health and human services agency

David Horowitz Dec 9, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden picked California’s top legal officer to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, placing a repeated legal opponent of the Trump administration in a position to...

California to make smartphones residents’ latest tool for tracking COVID-19

David Horowitz Dec 9, 2020

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Exempting marijuana, the legislation would have prohibited smoking in private units and common areas of housing complexes with three or more units. The fine for violating the legislation would have been $1,000 a day. (Dyanna Calvario / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF sets back indoor smoking ban for apartment complexes

David Horowitz Dec 8, 2020

A week after carving out an exemption for cannabis, San Francisco appeared ready to ban smoking within apartment buildings, but resident complaints influenced the Board of Supervisors to reverse its decision...

At stake are the legal statuses of some 640,000 immigrants who DACA protects from deportation and could face deportation if the program is overturned. The think tank Center for American Progress estimated in July that 300,000 new applicants are eligible to apply. (Camille Cohen / Golden Gate Xpress)

Second federal judge orders the restoration of DACA

David Horowitz Dec 5, 2020

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the latest federal victory for undocumented immigrants among multiple legal...

In the Bay Area, daily cases rose from 475 on Oct. 22 to 1,700 on Friday, San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragón said at the conference. San Francisco is recording 142 new cases per day, compared to 34 in late October, Aragón added. (Dyanna Calvario / Golden Gate Xpress)

Five Bay Area counties to preemptively enact state’s stay-at-home order

David Horowitz Dec 4, 2020

Five Bay Area counties will impose the strictest stay-at-home orders since spring in a bid to stem the recent spike in novel coronavirus infections expected to overwhelm hospitals statewide in the coming...

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