Mallory Newman
Journalist
Writing

Mission Station, others, still fail to send out newsletters to community
Many San Francisco residents receive regular communiques from their local police stations by way of an e-mail newsletter. In fact, if you live in the Ingleside, Richmond, Bayview or Park Districts, you get them once a week. Central District denizens get them biweekly, and Taraval District every month.

Resident of SFGH campus reported missing ten days before she was found in a SFGH stairwell
The 75-year-old woman found dead at San Francisco General Hospital had been missing for ten days before an engineer found her in a stairwell of a power plant building, hospital authorities said Thursday at a press conference.

SFMTA unveils bike design plans for Valencia Street to pleased workshop attendees
The 100 cyclists who attended Thursday night’s meeting on the city’s three options for protected bike lanes on Valencia Street showed an interest in the novel center bike lanes, probably a preference for protected lanes on both sides of the street, and less enthusiasm for two bike lanes on one side of the street...

Mobile printing stations are popping up in local coffee shops
If you’ve recently felt the need to print out a document in a pinch — and you’re among the growing swath of the population that had a printer in your home 10 years ago and no longer do — you have probably experienced the frustration of dashing to the nearest printing station.

BART station musician Ron Kemp brings simple joy to frazzled commuters
Rush hour at San Francisco’s Civic Center BART station brings one word to mind: nightmare.
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Whether being sandwiched between other strap-hangers during your commute or braving pedestrian road rage en route to holiday shopping...

Leno maintains slim lead over London Breed as marathon vote count ensues
Update, 12:21 a.m, June 6: We’ve got another ranked-choice voting run and, tentatively, it puts Mark Leno atop London Breed by a 50.42 to 49.58 percent margin. That is not razor thin. It’s thinner than that. How is this happening?

If Halloween reflects SF’s psyche, Trump is no longer funny
In the weirdest city, on a weird holiday, San Francisco’s celebration of Halloween offered a barometer of pop culture and politics. Donald Trump masks, no longer funny, were nowhere to be found. A man dressed as Colin Kaepernick popped up at the corner of 18th and Valencia streets and then disappeared...

Incarcerated Veterans Are Finding Relief In Meditation And Yoga
It's an age old story. Troops return home from fighting a war and struggle to readjust to civilian life. From the dreads of shell shock post-World War I, to the most recent afflictions of post-traumatic stress disorder among Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans, many return home and struggle to cope with their experiences.