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January 8, 2025 The Guardsman

The Side-Hustle Won’t Save You

While we continue on and on striving to work harder for more hours, how many people stop to ask themselves why?

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September 28, 2022October 7, 2022 The Guardsman

Nobody Pays The Bus Fare in San Francisco

I’d like to say the price of the bus fare is of no meditative importance but in all fairness I think there is reason to lower it’s price as to entice more bus goers into paying the fee and of course generating some level of revenue to sustain SFMTA.

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September 14, 2022October 3, 2022 The Guardsman

Biden Gave Students an Inch But We Need The Mile

Jobs that require higher education are more common than they ever have been but college education is still a serious financial risk. We need more than forgiveness.

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March 15, 2022June 15, 2022 The Guardsman

Maintaining Our Faculties: Performing Engagement

The college’s detractors, some of whom appear to be on its payroll, may view this enormous learning curve as a nearly insurmountable peak, that their role is merely to establish a base camp for the next attempt, seemingly oblivious to the avalanche of problems that arise when approaching an audacious task with incrementalism and self-protective caution.

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November 24, 2021January 4, 2022 The Guardsman

The Vigil: Vaccinate the Children

Recently, Pfizer was approved by the FDA for children ages 5-11 to receive in defense of COVID, and in San Francisco, they will also be required to show their vaccine cards to gain entry to businesses. California has been given 1.2 million doses, enough to vaccinate all children five to eleven years old, a vital step in building herd immunity, as all children in the state will now be required to have received the vaccine to attend school.

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October 20, 2021November 12, 2021 The Guardsman

Mayor Breed’s New Retail Crime Initiative

London Breed announced a police-led initiative to decrease retail crime rates in late September, partnered with retailers and regional law enforcement. The initiative has three main aspects; expanding and reallocating police budgeting and resources, restructuring of private and public deployments, and public-private funding to help report and solve cases.

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September 8, 2021September 26, 2021 The Guardsman

The Vigil: Voters Consider Recalling Newsom

Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a republican-backed campaign for his recall in the election on September 14.

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August 25, 2021September 26, 2021 The Guardsman

The Vigil: Mayor London Breed’s Ethic Violations Reflect the Pure Irony of Our Justice System

Mayor London Breed was fined a total of $22,792 for ethics violation on several counts of misusing her title for personal gain; including accepting money for car repairs by the former head of public works department Mohammed Nuru, buying herself two floats in the city’s 2015 Pride parade, and sending a letter to former governor Jerry Brown requesting her brother be released from prison early.