Thursday Lunchtime Links: Jamba Juice Flees The Bay Area: SFist

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Jamba Juice is fleeing the Bay Area for Texas. [SF Business Times]
Protesters stymie San Francisco Police Commission meeting. [SF Chronicle]
Get ready for some bosom heaving news: Google is giving its AI romance novels in an effort to make it talk normally. [BuzzFeed]
In an effort to fight obesity, Oakland’s putting a soda tax on the November ballot. [SF Business Times] [SF Chronicle]
A 7-month-old at UCSF hospital has been denied a potentially life-saving heart transplant by three California hospitals. [ABC 7]
Massive fines mount for serial permit scofflaw Academy of Art as City Attorney and Planning Commission squabble. [CBS 5]
[SF Weekly]'s cover story this week dismantles the city's dismal track record in investigating and prosecuting rape cases.
Sorry for the smell, that's just the dead whale floating near Santa Cruz. [SF Chronicle]
SF's vending machine junk food ban moves closer to reality, but now 911 dispatchers will be exempt. [SF Examiner]
How does SF distinguish between "graffiti art" and vandalism? [KTVU]

Thursday Lunchtime Links: Jamba Juice Flees The Bay Area