Bay Area school districts, including SFUSD, are won’t excuse students to skip classes for today’s climate action march citing school policies. Students who participate will be marked as absent, which has students and some parents up in arms because they believe teaching kids about civic engagement is important, particularly in the political (forgive the pun) climate we are.

Assemblymember Phil Ting introduced a bill that would sidestep Trump’s pitiful emissions standards by requiring automakers to meet higher standards if they want people who buy electric and hybrid vehicles to be eligible for state rebates. California has doled out $240 million in rebates to car buyer who’ve bought lower emissions cars.

Heather Knight recounts the disturbing details of another assault by a man with seemingly serious mental health issues- 28-year-old Teresa Man was walking to work on last Friday morning and a man who commented on the dress she was wearing, allegedly grabbed her breasts and attempted to remove her dress and bra. His response when the victim said she would call the police” “The cops aren’t going to do nothing.”

CCSF Chancellor Mark Rocha seemed to change his tune at Thursday’s Board of Trustees budget committee held to hear concerns from faculty and students about executives receiving exorbitant high raises despite recent budget cuts. Rocha said that while the Trustees approved the raises, they can also rescind them, and Rocha proposed a solution that may assuage the outrage. The budget committee recommended an independent financial analyst review the schools finances before making any changes to the salary increases.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed a lawsuit against two online travel sites - JustFly and FlightHub - claiming they are taking advantage of customer with much higher hidden fees with regard to changing and cancelling flights than ever airlines themselves do.

The Chronicle details why they decided to endorse No on Prop C, a measure designed to overturn the City’s ban on the sale of vaping products and require any changes to the law to go to the ballot.

U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr. has instituted an injection against California’s attempt to force candidates to provide their tax returns in order to qualify for the state’s ballot, a move by the state clearly directed at forcing Trump to release his top-secret tax returns.

Planning Commission Rich Hillis surprised his colleagues by announcing his resignation from the commission to seek to pursue becoming the Director of the Planning Department.

In this week’s On Guard, Joe Fitz celebrates the 40th anniversary of the City’s Housing Rights Committee that was formed by a ground of Parisioners at Saint Mary’s Cathedral to protect and inform renters from unfair evictions.

After his visit to raise money from Bay Area supporters, Trump has threatened sanctions - his favorite manipulative tactic to get what he wants, - against San Francisco for violating environment laws around homelessness saying “we can’t have our cities going to hell.” He did not provide any detail on how exactly the City is violating the EPA’s regulations.