The Urban Legend

California’s Skittles Ban doesn’t actually ban Skittles

Mari Flores, Staff Writer • December 9, 2023

Beginning January 1 2027, four chemical food additives linked to cancer and reproductive issues will be banned in California: brominated vegetable oil, propylparaben, potassium bromate and red dye No....

A guide to California incarceration bills, continued

Lochlain Steere, Staff Writer • June 4, 2021

Read the four incarceration-related bills in their entirety: VISION Act - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937 Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1225 Incarceration...

California’s game-changing law allows payment of college athletes

Loki Olin, Editor-in-Chief, Print • October 29, 2019

On Monday, Sep. 30, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB-206, a bill that will allow athletes at California colleges to profit off the commercial use of their names, images, and likenesses. Newsom...

San Francisco and The Urban School strive to meet Zero Waste goal by 2020

August Ackley, EIC of Digital Content • November 16, 2017

In August, 2017, the San Francisco Department of Environment and Recology announced that items once considered waste, including plastic bags and plastic wrap, can now be recycled. The Department of Environment...

What happens if you Google crazy state laws

Kian Nassre, Staff Writer • April 25, 2017

It all began when I heard something bizarre on an old episode of Bones: apparently premarital sex is illegal in Virginia. My first thought was no way. There is no way that in the 21st century, the state...

An abbreviated introduction to 2016 propositions

Cole Palmer, Opinions Editor • October 25, 2016

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