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Myrna Melgar

Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park (Photo/Flickr-Patrick G CC)
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These are the 12 names in the running to replace Stow Lake

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher June 15, 2023June 20, 2023

Though suggestions continue to trickle in, San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar this week gave J. a list of 12 prime contenders to replace the name “Stow Lake” after it became […]

Stow Lake today in Golden Gate Park. (Wikimedia/Brocken Inaglory)
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S.F. supes’ resolution urges renaming Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake, named for politician who proposed ‘Jew-tax’

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher October 19, 2022October 19, 2022
Supporters of abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court while the Dobbs case is being heard.
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Bay Area Jewish politicians outraged after Supreme Court’s abortion reversal leak

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Myrna Melgar is the newly elected San Francisco District 7 supervisor. (Photo/Courtesy Melgar)
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SF Board of Supervisors welcomes first Jewish Latina, an immigrant from El Salvador

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 22, 2020January 7, 2021

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