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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin speaks at a news conference in San Francisco on Monday. A former San Francisco police officer, Chris Samayoa, who fatally shot an unarmed carjacking suspect in 2017, is facing numerous charges including volunt
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    San Francisco DA's Office Launches Its 1st Homicide Prosecution Of A Police Officer

    Nov 24, 2020
    San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin called the charges "historic" and vowed to apply the law evenly "no matter what the color of your skin....or whether you wear a uniform to work."
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks to a group protesting police racism outside City Hall on June 1. On Friday she announced plans to divert $120 million from the city's police to efforts that address inequities in the Black community.
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    San Francisco Proposes To Shift $120 Million From Police To Tackle Racial Disparities

    Jul 31, 2020
    Mayor London Breed said the funds would be reallocated over two years to address stark inequities in housing, education, health and economic opportunities faced by the city's Black community.
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    Protesters hold up signs during a caravan protest for justice in San Francisco on Thursday.
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    Caravan For Justice: Cars Offer Socially Distanced Protesting During Pandemic

    Jun 05, 2020
    Hundreds of cars circle San Francisco, festooned with signs honoring George Floyd and other black victims of police violence. Similar protests are planned from Detroit to Connecticut.
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    Goats and Soda
    Left: Jana De Brauwere, program manager at the San Francisco Public Library is now contact tracing through the State of California. Right: Rachel Saykpah, quality assurance officer for Last Mile Health in Liberia has overseen contact tracers in Africa si
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    6 Pieces Of Advice From A Veteran Contact Tracer And A Newbie

    May 25, 2020
    Get friendly with community leaders; be prepared to be judged by others. Disease detectives from California and Liberia share their best insights.
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    Shots - Health News
    A project in San Francisco to estimate spread of the coronavirus in hard-hit neighborhoods has expanded testing to everyone over age 4 in a broad swath of the Mission District this week, including at a pop-up site at Garfield Square.
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    San Francisco Enlists A Key Latino Neighborhood In Coronavirus Testing

    Apr 28, 2020
    To get better data this week on a hard-hit community, the public health department and researchers are offering free testing for everyone over age 4 in a broad swath of the Mission District.
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    Shots - Health News
    San Francisco's Coit Tower was lit up blue on April 9 as part of a nationwide tribute to health care workers and first responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    San Francisco Ramps Up Back-To-Basics Contact Tracing To Stop COVID-19

    Apr 16, 2020
    Citing concerns about privacy and civil liberties, the city's not relying on a smartphone app to track cases. Instead, it's recruiting public health staff, librarians and med students to make calls.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A homeless encampment seen on Monday in San Francisco. City lawmakers are demanding that the mayor step up efforts to house the city's homeless population to protect them from COVID-19.
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    San Francisco Lawmakers Order Mayor To Lease Hotel Rooms For Homeless

    Apr 14, 2020
    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance giving the mayor 12 days to secure thousands of rooms to house and protect the city's homeless population during the COVID-19 crisis.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    In San Francisco, dispensaries were first left off city's list of "essential businesses." The city's Department of Health now says "cannabis is an essential medicine for many San Francisco residents."
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    Amid Coronavirus, San Francisco, New York, Deem Marijuana Businesses 'Essential'

    Mar 18, 2020
    Officials in San Francisco reversed course and are allowing dispensaries to stay open during the "shelter in place" order. New York made a similar declaration for its medical marijuana businesses.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America</em>, by Conor Dougherty
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    Author Says 'Mixed Solutions Can Feel Like A Cop-Out' But May Solve Housing Inequity

    Feb 12, 2020
    Journalist Conor Dougherty doesn't traffic radical ideas in Golden Gates, but tells the story of housing in all its complexity, acknowledging that imperfect solutions are often the only solutions.
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    National
    Tents housing homeless line a street down the street from LAPD Central Community Police Station in downtown Los Angeles on May 30, 2019. In this city, homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets and on sidewalks and inside parks.
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    How Boise's Fight Over Homelessness Is Rippling Across The West Coast

    Dec 13, 2019
    Cities in the West that are dealing with an explosion of homelessness are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that limits camping bans in public parks and right of ways.
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    Politics
    Voters in San Francisco rejected Proposition C, which was backed by e-cigarette maker Juul Labs and sought to overturn a San Francisco Board of Supervisors ban of e-cigarettes sales at brick and mortar stores, and barred deliveries of online purchases to
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    Voters Cast Ballots On Affirmative Action, Sanctuary Cities, In Off-Year Elections

    Nov 06, 2019
    In Tucson, Ariz., residents rejected a "sanctuary city" label. In San Francisco, they supported a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes, and in Jersey City, N.J., they closed the door on Airbnb.
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    National
    The 1966 Salvador Dalí etching <em>Burning Giraffe</em>, valued at $20,000, was swiped from a San Francisco gallery on Sunday.
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    Salvador Dalí Etching Stolen From San Francisco Gallery In 'Snatch And Run'

    Oct 15, 2019
    Surveillance footage shows a young man casually walking away with the $20,000 work, one in a series that's seen as poking fun at both Pablo Picasso and the Spanish tradition of bullfighting.
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    National
    After the allegations of sexual harassment surfaced, chef Charlie Hallowell issued an apology, saying he was "deeply ashamed and so very sorry."
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    This Chef Says He's Faced His #MeToo Offenses. Now He Wants A Second Chance

    Oct 07, 2019
    Dozens of women accused chef Charlie Hallowell of sexual harassment two years ago. Hallowell says he's changed now, and that he's worked to find "a softer, humbler, kinder way to navigate the world."
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    Politics
    President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally Monday night in Rio Rancho, N.M.
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    Trump Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines' To Raise Money In SF Bay Area

    Sep 16, 2019
    The president will be attending private fundraisers near Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills. It is his first visit to the San Francisco Bay Area since his election, when he lost California by 30 points.
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    National
    The NRA says San Francisco lawmakers went too far in declaring it a terrorist organization. Here, members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America take part in a rally against gun violence held at San Francisco City Hall in August.
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    NRA Sues San Francisco After Lawmakers Declare It A Terrorist Organization

    Sep 10, 2019
    The pro-gun group says the city and county are trying to discriminate against people "based on the viewpoint of their political speech."
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    National
    A sea of fog advances on the Golden Gate Bridge during a late winter twilight in 2016. On Saturday the operators of FogCam said the long-running webcam at San Francisco State University will sunset "forever" at the end of August.
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    The End Is Nigh For FogCam, Billed As The Internet's Oldest Running Webcam

    Aug 19, 2019
    The webcam at San Francisco State University has been in operation since 1994. Now, its creators say they plan to sunset the Internet landmark by the end of the month.
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    National
    An image from surveillance camera video shows the encounter with police at the home of journalist Bryan Carmody in May. A judge this week quashed a search warrant used by the San Francisco Police Department.
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    Judge Quashed Warrant For Journalist's Phone After Police Downplayed His Occupation

    Jul 26, 2019
    Police searched Bryan Carmody's phone and raided his home and office this spring. A San Francisco judge has now quashed the warrant and ordered supporting court documents to be unsealed.
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    Shots - Health News
    Marchers at a candlelight vigil in San Francisco, Calif., carry a banner to call attention to the continuing battle against AIDS on May 29, 1989. The city was home to the nation's first AIDS special care unit. The unit, which opened in 1983, is the subje
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    1st AIDS Ward '5B' Fought To Give Patients Compassionate Care, Dignified Deaths

    Jun 26, 2019
    A new documentary tells the story of America's first inpatient unit dedicated to the care of people with AIDS. Nurse Cliff Morrison helped create 5B in 1983, and worked on it with Dr. Paul Volberding.
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    Shots - Health News
    Two San Francisco ordinances would prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=7111897&GUID=7C3912E3-BB56-420D-896E-6FEA1391287D">in brick-and-mortar stores and ban online sales</a> to shipping addresses in the
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    San Francisco Bans Sales Of E-Cigarettes

    Jun 25, 2019
    San Francisco supervisors say they need to protect kids and teens from becoming addicted to nicotine. The dominant vaping company, Juul, is headquartered in the city and hopes to overturn the ban.
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    National
    Heather Burns at Martin Elementary School in South San Francisco, where she now teaches third grade. Burns was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and had to pay for her own substitute while on sick leave.
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    California Teachers Pay For Their Own Substitutes During Extended Sick Leave

    May 20, 2019
    A teacher battling cancer has to pay for her own substitute. Now some lawmakers are calling for a change in the state education code to eliminate this hardship.
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    Technology
    In this Oct. 31 photo, a man has his face painted to represent efforts to defeat facial recognition. It was during a protest at Amazon headquarters over the company's facial recognition system.
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    San Francisco Considers Ban On Government's Use Of Facial Recognition Technology

    May 14, 2019
    The city is home to some of the world's largest technology companies, but it may ban the use of facial recognition software by police and city agencies.
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    National
    A still from a surveillance camera at the home of Bryan Carmody, which was raided by San Francisco police on Friday.
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    San Francisco Police Raid Journalist's Home After He Refuses To Name Source

    May 13, 2019
    Police obtained a warrant to search the home of freelance videographer Bryan Carmody as part of an investigation into a leaked police report concerning the death of public defender Jeff Adachi.
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    Research News
    Researchers also found that congestion on the roads in San Francisco also was exacerbated because of where the ride-hailing cars were and at what time of day<em>.</em>
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    Uber And Lyft Caused Major Traffic Uptick In San Francisco, Study Says

    May 08, 2019
    Researchers compared data from fall 2010 — before the companies made inroads in the city — and fall 2016. They found that the companies are to blame for more than half of a big increase in traffic.
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    National
    A mother and her three daughters at the border crossing dividing Juárez, Mexico, and El-Paso, Texas. The family traveled from Guatemala to reach the U.S.
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    Trump Spokesman Calls Plan To Send Immigrants To 'Sanctuary Cities' An 'Olive Branch'

    Apr 14, 2019
    White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Bidley said a threat by President Trump to send detained immigrants to sanctuary cities should not be seen as a form of "political retribution."
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    Law
    Soda bottles displayed in a San Francisco market.A federal appeals court blocked a city law requiring advertisement warnings on the potential health impacts of sugary drinks.
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    Federal Appeals Court Blocks San Francisco Law On Ad Warnings For Sugary Drinks

    Jan 31, 2019
    A voter-approved law requiring large warnings about the effects of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks was challenged by the beverage industry.

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