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Activists urge Gov. Brown not to veto the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights again
Interfaith leaders bless Sacramento-bound domestic workers during a rally this morning outside San Francisco City Hall.Katie JoaquinSupporters of the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights are...
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Petition to name Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton gains 1,000 signatures
San Francisco freelance writer John Lumea disagrees with California state legislators who want to name the western span of the Bay Bridge after former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.Nothing personal...
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Tables turned: Department of Education finds City College's accreditors out...
The Department of Ed goes after the ACCJCPhoto illustration by Joe FitzgeraldCity College had its accreditation revoked by the Accrediting Commission of Junior and Community Colleges this past July,...
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Backward on climate
Supporters of CleanPowerSF gathered on the steps of City Hall before an Aug. 13 hearing.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEAfter a hearing lasting several hours on Tue/13, members of the San Francisco...
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Lawsuit challenging the Beach Chalet turf project goes to trial
Artist rendering of what the Beach Chalet fields will look like with stadium lights and artificial turf.Plans to place artificial turf and stadium lights on Beach Chalet’s soccer fields in Golden Gate...
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Bike thieves blasted all over the Twitter-verse by the SFPD
Bike thieves on blast by the SFPDPhoto by Instagram user satindarThinking of stealing a bike in San Francisco? Think twice, as your face may be plastered all over the Twitter-verse by the SFPD’s new...
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West Oakland hyper gentrification in the WSJ
This Craigslist screen shot illustrates the trend: "nice&clean" in West Oakland.Two stories on the theme of gentrification and displacement – a topic we at the Guardian have expended plenty of ink...
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Outside Lands 2013 winners (Paul McCartney, Chic, Bombino) and losers
Hall & Oates, or Trombone Shorty? Willie Nelson, or Vampire Weekend? This year's Outside Lands presented its 65,000 attendees with some perplexing choices, resulting in what might've been the...
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SF Democratic Party opposes developers’ 8 Washington initiative
Bienvenidos a Miami.On Wed/14, members of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee voted 14-6 to oppose Proposition B, a San Francisco ballot measure backed by the developers of a luxury...
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Tragedies remind us to pay attention and share the roads
Bicyclist Chris Bucchere struck and killed a pedestrian last year while speeding through this crowded intersection.A pair of tragic news items involving bicyclists in San Francisco — one cyclist a...
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Never enough hours in the weekend to see all these NEW MOVIES
Rocket man: Sharlto Copley in 'Europa Report'Photo courtesy of Magnet ReleasingQuite a few openings this week, although it seems like 10-plus new movies is becoming the norm these days. (At least...
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America's Cup organizers sell small-scale naming rights at Pier 27 to pay...
Once America's Cup is done with Pier 27 in October, it will become a public park and cruise ship terminal.The Port Commission has approved a proposal by the America’s Cup Organizing Committee (ACOC) to...
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By Dick MeisterDick Meister is a San Francisco-based columnist who has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his...
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RIP Jose Sarria, Empress I of SF, the Widow Norton
"The Grand Dame of Queer Revolution" -- vintage image via Waiyde Palmer of Castrobiscuit.comHe led a life that spanned the full evolution of modern gay rights -- and the mourning gowns will be...
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Celebrating food (and the food biz) at La Cocina's Food and Entrepreneurship...
La Cocina— known for its ability to break down cultural barriers through food and for aiding low-income food entrepreneurs in their journey to sustainability — drew many fresh faces to its fourth...
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Plan Bay Area takes legal punches from the left and right
Our May 28 cover story outlined Plan Bay Area's huge impacts to San Francisco.Plan Bay Area, the regional strategy to funnel future population growth into San Francisco and other big cities in order to...
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Attorneys debate toxic turf during Beach Chalet project opponents' last stand
Opponents of a city plan to install artificial turf soccer fields and stadium lights at the Beach Chalet soccer fields in Golden Gate Park — after losing at every stage of the project’s approval...
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Heads Up: 8 must-see concerts this week
Ovvl used to be spelled Owl, but now it's Ovvl.PHOTO BY ALBERT GUTIERREZThe Internet never forgets. I realized this yet again today after discovering the complete 1979 BBC documentary, Who Is Poly...
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"Greyhound therapy" is wrong for Nevada, and San Francisco
It’s horribly inhumane and indefensible for Nevada to ship its mentally ill homeless to San Francisco, and City Attorney Dennis Herrera is right to go after that state with a lawsuit aimed at changing...
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The Performant: Surrender Dorothy
San Francisco’s invasion of Canada has begunOn my first day in Alberta, Canada I am greeted by gracious Edmontonians bearing platters of smoked meats, a local tradition perhaps, and upon joining my...
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