Eleni Balakrishnan
Police and Courts Reporter at Mission Local
police & courts reporter @MLNow • desi-habesha siempre pensando en méxico • @RiceUniversity, @LJJProject alum • tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
In three lawsuits, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is seeking to shutter multiple Tenderloin businesses for allegedly operating as illegal gambling dens, and selling drugs while fronting as discount stores or smoke shops. “The businesses housed substantial illegal gambling operations, facilitated criminal and drug activity in the neighborhood, and, in some cases, illegally sold controlled substances,” read a statement from the City Attorney’s Office today.
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1 week ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
When Theris Coats failed to make it from his San Francisco hospital bed to a sobering center in February, and wound up dead in county jail a few weeks later, his father, like any parent, wanted someone to blame. Coats, or “TC,” was in the throes of addiction and in a wheelchair with an amputated leg.
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2 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
The San Francisco Ethics Commission will fine a group that campaigned against Proposition K, which closed the Upper Great Highway to cars, for failing to register and report itself as a political committee. Open the Great Highway, which solicited donations against Prop. K, “violated state and City campaign finance laws” as it conducted “membership engagement, fundraising, awareness campaigns, and city level advocacy,” according to a settlement agreed to by the group and the city.
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2 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Resilience was top of mind for many at this year’s new Eid festival, marking the end of Ramadan, in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Thousands, mostly immigrants, filled the blocks of Jones between Eddy and Golden Gate, dressed to the nines, munching on locally made Arab dishes, and determined to celebrate amid a difficult political climate — from deportations here to war against their people abroad.
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2 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
A team of roving nurses known for their outreach work in the Tenderloin is halting its operations due to federal funding cuts, Mission Local has learned. The Roving Community Health Initiative, which was founded in 2021 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, has become a regular fixture in the neighborhood, with clinicians and community volunteers often seen walking the Tenderloin and offering medical services to people on the streets.
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