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18 May 2016 / SF News / Jay Barmann

Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Soda Industry Dealt Another Blow In SF


  • Big Soda has failed to convince a federal judge to grant a preliminary injunction against SF's new soda ad health labeling law, which will take effect in July unless it's appealed. [KRON 4] [WSJ]
  • Google is announcing its own voice-activated, Amazon Echo competitor today. [NYT]
  • An activist hedge fund invested in Pandora is pushing for the company to sell itself, possibly to Spotify or to the conglomerate that owns SiriusXM, and that has nudged its stock price up. [Chron]
  • A Millbrae man reported missing last week whose cell phone was found in Golden Gate Park has turned up dead in a field in Sonoma County, as the family confirmed on Facebook, and no further details are available. [KRON 4]
  • Capping off a weekend celebrating what would have been Harvey Milk's 86th birthday, there is a screening of the 1984 Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk at the Castro on Sunday. [Chron]
  • Amazon's Jeff Bezos said at a shareholder meeting that the goal is to make customers believe "if you are not a Prime member, you are being irresponsible." [Business Times]
  • Helicopter video shows sharks swimming sort of near Santa Cruz surfers. [CBS 5]
  • Oakland prosecutor wants death penalty for the man convicted of that sleepover murder of an 8-year-old girl. [CBS 5]
  • The Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved laws to regulate the city’s medical cannabis industry. [Chron]
  • Dealing with a domestic disturbance Tuesday in Pittsburg involving a possibly high son with a gun, police shot the son as well as two other family members. All three are expected to survive. [East Bay Times]
  • They’re fighting over what’s graffiti and what’s a beach mural in Bolinas. [ABC 7]

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Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years.

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