The Urban Legend

Newsom shuts down extending pay to low-income jurors

Eliot Solomon, Opinions Editor • December 9, 2023

Throughout the month of October, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed 145 bills of the roughly 900 proposed bills created and passed by the state legislature. One of these bills, Assembly Bill (AB)...

Opinion: San Francisco’s District Attorney recall is a fear campaign

Simon Hereford, Features editor • October 7, 2021

Although District Attorney Chesa Boudin has been in office for under two years, he has already become one of the most controversial political figures in San Francisco's history. Critics of the district...

ADEM elections: why you don’t know about them, and what you need to know

Delancey Gaito, Staff Writer • March 28, 2021

In the predominantly democratic Bay Area, the official Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021 came as a sigh of relief. According to The Washington Post, the 2020 Presidential Election...

Urban students express concern and emotion going into election night

Zadie Winthrop, Managing Editor • November 3, 2020

http://https://youtu.be/3KsopZQ-unA

Youth civic engagement is vital to the success of our political system

Sophia Vahanvaty, Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper • November 16, 2017

Though it may seem that youth are voiceless until they have the right to vote, there are many ways to get involved, learn more about local politics or make one’s views on local issues heard and acknowledged. In...

An abbreviated introduction to 2016 propositions

Cole Palmer, Opinions Editor • October 25, 2016

"it is essential not to grow apathetic toward civic engagement"