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19 October 2016 / SF News / Caleb Pershan

Day Around The Bay: In Oakland, A Plan To Make Homeless Encampments More Livable


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  • A hotly-debated new program approved by the Oakland City Council would spiff-up homeless encampments, improving conditions and making them more hospitable. [Chronicle]
  • So there's this one guy in Menlo Park who’s trying to be the ultimate anti-helicopter parent, and also he's a libertarian so yes, do read. [NYT magazine]
  • Controversy over naming Chinatown station after Rose Pak has inspired the SFMTA to develop a station-naming policy. [Examiner]
  • A contractor struck a four-inch gas main during construction in Hunter's Point and led to the evacuation of a block of residences. [Chronicle]
  • Ready to get meta? A post that purports to be from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offering money to Facebook users who don't share social media hoaxes.... is itself a parody of social media hoaxes. [Snopes]
  • The Market will abandon its previous plans to open on Polk Street. [Hoodline]
  • A mural supporting Colin Kaepernick goes up in Mission. [ABC 7]
  • A day after a multiple shooting at June Jordan High School, students are in shock and no arrests have been made. [Chron]
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Early-Morning Castro Blaze Injures Three Firefighters, Displaces Seven

UPDATE: #FIRE ON HATTIE JUST WENT TO 4TH ALARM. #SFFD @Scott_Wiener pic.twitter.com/cOr7t9NdtY— SF Firefighters 798 (@SFFFLocal798) October 20, 2016 A four-alarm fire in the Castro District left seven residents

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Video: Stanley Roberts Reminds Us That Sideshows Are Bad

Stanley Roberts is back on the sideshow beat using his usual semi-mocking tone at KRON 4 as he scolds the people who participate in them those who stand by and film them. And

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