A fire at an 8th grade graduation frames a bleak future for graduates: leave the comfort and safety of your school for a world gone up in flames. Thankfully these eighth graders have a few more years until they’re cast into a sea of 9.4% unemployment. There’s always hope for the American myth, in which a San Francisco shoeshiner discovered there’s at least a modicum of truth. Horatio Alger would be proud this Friday, June 5th, 2009.
THIS MORNING’S TOP STORIES
Graduation fire forces evacuation, one man injured trying to rescue the cake (seriously). ABC7, EX
Unemployment rate hits 9.4%. CHRON, ABC7
FROM THE SF CHRONICLE
Horatio Alger shines down on local shoeshine vendor.
FROM THE SF EXAMINER
FROM THE SF WEEKLY
FROM CBS5
Richmond man guilty of slaying pregnant girlfriend
FROM ABC7
San Francisco Appeal journalist refuses to make pun at David Carradine’s expense
Mother and bystander foil teen’s suicide attempt
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