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The best books about San Francisco
There’s more to a Bay Area reading list than “Tales of the City”
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San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech companies
It's no secret that Facebook employees love their office meals. On Instagram, there are countless photos of free meals - from sushi to tacos to coffee waffles - served at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California. But come this fall, when the tech giant moves to a new Mountain View office complex called the Village, that perk will no longer exist.
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San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech companies
It's no secret that Facebook employees love their free meals. But this fall when the tech giant moves to its new office complex in Mountain View, California, that perk will no longer exist because of a new city rule. And San Francisco may follow.
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Monsanto 'bullied scientists' and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court
Monsanto has long worked to “bully scientists” and suppress evidence of the cancer risks of its popular weedkiller, a lawyer argued on Monday in a landmark lawsuit against the global chemical corporation. “Monsanto has specifically gone out of its way to bully ... and to fight independent researchers,” said the attorney Brent Wisner, who presented internal Monsanto emails that he said showed how the agrochemical company rejected critical research and expert warnings over the years while pursuing and helping to write favorable analyses of their products. “They fought science.”
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San Francisco's Dirty Streets Scare Off Long-time Convention
Convention business brings in about $2 billion to San Francisco each year, however, the city’s travel association is finding it harder to convince companies to return because of the amount of trash, feces,...
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San Francisco Logs Over 16,000 Feces Complaints in One Week
Over 16,000 complaints have been logged with the City of San Francisco regarding ‘feces’ in the last seven days. A website and related app that allows local residents to request maintenance or non-emergency services from the city has received 16,015 complaints with the keyword ‘feces’ in the last week at the time of this writing, and many pertain to human waste in public places.
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First black female mayor for San Francisco
San Francisco is to have its first-ever female black mayor - at a time when African-Americans are becoming increasingly scarce in the US city. London Breed, a long-time community activist who grew up in public housing, was declared the winner after her rival admitted defeat a week after city voters cast their ballots. Winning with just over 50% of votes, the 43-year-old said she felt humbled.
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Connecting our homeless neighbors with their loved ones
San Francisco’s housing crisis is painfully obvious with a homeless population of 7,499 people, according to a 2017 homeless census and survey. People lose their homes for a variety of reasons — job losses, wrongful evictions, excessive rent hikes and so forth.
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Tech firms like Google, Amazon push power companies toward solar and wind, a blow to coal
Every time you save a photo to the cloud, buy something on Amazon, open a Google doc or stream a movie, you’re probably pulling electricity from a windmill in Texas or a solar farm in Virginia. In fact, your clicks and taps may have helped build them. Since 2008, renewable energy has gone from 9% to 18% of the U.S. energy mix, according to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. A big part of that shift stems from tech companies' rapid buildout of cloud storage centers and a move to burnish their public image by vowing they’ll run these centers on sources like wind and solar.
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San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble
The city’s building code does not protect its people from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.
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Found Footage Offers a New Glimpse at 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Nine minutes of newly found footage, restored from an aging film reel that was revealed publicly this weekend, shows the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906.
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Shooting Reported at YouTube HQ in US
Police say they are responding to an "active shooter" at the company's office in northern California.
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San Francisco Becomes First Major US City to Ban Fur Sales
Today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban fur following weeks of tumultuous debate between animal rights activists and retailers. The Golden City follows two other California cities— Berkeley and West Hollywood— in banning fur sales. This historic victory for animals comes after appeals from PETA and local activists, who have attended numerous committee meetings on the issue and held a rally at City Hall just a few weeks ago.
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SF mother, 7-year-old son found dead, buried under snow in Kirkwood
A San Francisco mother and son discovered under feet of snow near the Kirkwood condo complex where they were staying. The mother and her son were calling it a day, heading back to their condo when the snow came crashing down on them.
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Diseased Streets
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed a section of downtown San Francisco to determine the amount of feces, hypodermic needles, and garbage littering the heart of the city.
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A Girl Scout set up shop where she knew people had the munchies. She hit the jackpot
Location, location, location. It’s a mantra for real estate agents, but a Girl Scout in San Diego turned it to her advantage Friday when she found the perfect spot to peddle her cookies – a pot dispensary. She sold more than 300 boxes in six hours, her father told KGTV. Girl Scout cookie sales don’t officially start for another week, but scouts are allowed to sell cookies from wagons with a parent or guardian as long as they don’t set up booths, Girl Scouts San Diego told the station.
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Now that marijuana is legal, San Francisco is erasing everybody's misdemeanor convictions
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced that his office will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases. This means San Francisco will expunge and seal the records of misdemeanor marijuana offenders, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today.
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Google employees say the company's not doing enough to protect them from harassment, threats
The firing of Google engineer James Damore for claiming women are not biologically suited for technical roles has triggered a culture war inside the Internet giant, with some Google employees saying the company is not doing enough to protect them from a harassment campaign that has subjected them to hateful comments and violent threats. These employees, many of whom volunteer as diversity advocates, say they've been targeted by some of their own coworkers for fighting to bring greater diversity to Google's 78,000-plus staff of mostly white and Asian men.
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Bay Area housing: And you thought you were already depressed
And, people wonder why I don't even consider moving to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Buses carrying tech workers targeted outside San Francisco
Six shuttle buses transporting Apple and Google employees were deliberately targeted by vandals who broke the windows with unknown objects while traveling on a highway south of San Francisco, authorities said Thursday. Four Apple charter buses and one Google bus were attacked Tuesday during the morning and evening commutes along a 16-mile stretch of Highway 280, which connects San Francisco to Silicon Valley, said California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel. He said no injuries were reported.
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