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Notwithstanding the extreme and numerous uncertainties shrouding the 2020 elections, there are two things that I’m holding to be certain. One, that I am going to vote. And two, my vote is going to count.
Like me there are more than 11 million Asian Americans who are eligible to vote this year. Asian American voters have more than doubled, growing by more than 139 percent since 2000, says Pew Research, and are “the fastest growing segment of eligible...

Solo shows can feel particularly intimate on Zoom, as if it’s just you and the performer.
Case in point: Marga Gomez’s “The Spanking Machine,” a Brava Theatre production.
In her many solo performances, the Bay Area’s longtime, treasured comic explores her own life— her flamboyant Cuban American parents, her search for love and sex, her all-too-human mishaps and missteps — in ways that are hilarious and always deeply affecting...

The launch of construction on the $75 million Maceo May Apartment complex on Treasure Island Friday marked step forward in San Francisco’s efforts to provide affordable housing for unhoused veterans.
Once completed in 2022, 104-unit building, one of 20 100 percent affordable buildings planned on Treasure Island, will house 39 formerly homeless veterans and 65 currently homeless veterans....

Four officers who should have been punished for misconduct escaped discipline because Police Chief Bill Scott waited too long to take action on their cases, according to a new report.
One officer would have served a three-day suspension for arresting a person instead of issuing a citation. Another would have received a written reprimand for “unnecessarily engaging in a prolonged argument.”...