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Thursday Morning Roundup: Is It Rude To Call SF 'The City'?
SF News /Eve Batey

Thursday Morning Roundup: Is It Rude To Call SF 'The City'?

Published Sep 11, 2014 · 2:00 AM PDT

  • SF gets closer to setting up $2 million dollar funding pool for lawyers of kids in danger of deportation. [SF Chronicle]
  • [The Sonia Show] worries that she might offend people who live elsewhere if she refers to San Francisco as "The City".
  • Macworld laid off pretty much everyone who works there. [New York Times]
  • Man has necklace snatched from his neck while standing in Great Highway median. [Ocean Beach Bulletin]
  • New flags for unfortunately-nicknamed "House of Holes." [Hoodline]
  • Twitter's trying to raise $1.3 billion by issuing convertible senior notes. Angry comment from that one guy in 3, 2, 1. [Reuters]
  • The Bay Bridge is showered with praise for failing to crumble into the water during the Napa quake. Good job? [ABC7]
  • After the DPW spent more than a million bucks on improvements to Sunset Boulevard landscaping, things still aren't looking great. [SF Chronicle]
  • Looking shoots at La Rondalla, creates "traffic nightmare." [Mission Local]
  • Family of Betty Ann Ong, a flight attendant raised in San Francisco's Chinatown and killed in the September 11, 2001 attack, looks back on her legacy. [SF Examiner]
  • Viracocha goes legit. [SF Weekly]

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