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Education

What’s in a name? From ‘Hastings’ to UC Law SF

By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | August 1, 2022

The law school's board voted to replace the Hastings name with San Francisco because of its founder’s genocidal acts against Native Americans in the 1850s.

arts

San Francisco Art Institute, USF merger talks fail

By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | July 19, 2022

Founded in 1871, SFAI is one of the nation's oldest art schools.

Arts & Entertainment

Big Basin bounces back … sort of. Park partly reopening two years after devastating fire

By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | July 4, 2022

Reservations are now being accepted for limited day-use access — for the first time since the CZU Lightning Complex Fire destroyed much of the park in August 2020.

California

Investigation into last year’s Glass Fire hits dead end

By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | August 17, 2021

Dry vegetation, hot weather, strong winds, and swiftly moving flames prevented investigators from determining what sparked the fire.