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14 November 2016 / SF News / Jay Barmann

Lunchtime Links: Hundreds Rally In Support Of SF's Sanctuary City Policy


  • Hundreds gathered at City Hall Monday in support of SF's Sanctuary City policy amidst threats by President-Elect Donald Trump to punish cities that harbor illegal immigrants. [Examiner]
  • A Bay Area mom describes a days-long Uber customer service nightmare after the service left her son, who has a traumatic brain injury, stranded in Fairfax. [SFGate]
  • A Mountain View teacher who mentioned Trump in the context of the rise of the Third Reich has been suspended. [CBS 5]
  • Several Trump supporters brought Confederate flags to wave at a Veterans' Day parade in Petaluma. [SFGate]
  • Trump-supporting CEO Andrew Torba got kicked out of the Y Combinator startup accelerator for violating its harassment policy after he called a bunch of people "cucks" in an online discussion. [BuzzFeed]
  • A tall (nine-story), 94-unit, all-affordable development at 1296 Shotwell Street, with units reserved entirely for seniors and the formerly homeless, will finally get a public hearing on December 1. [Socketsite]
  • San Francisco police have written thousands of tickets this year for quality-of-life offenses such as sleeping in parks, urinating on sidewalks and being drunk in public — but then, the courts no longer enforce them. [SF Chronicle]
  • Oakland leaders are weighing whether to reserve half of new permits for marijuana clubs for minority communities and those previously prosecuted for drug offenses. [KCBS]
  • Yet another UC Berkeley professor has been accused of sexual harassment, this time a longtime prominent faculty member, Middle East scholar and architecture professor by the name of Nezar AlSayyad. [SF Chronicle]

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Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 19 years.

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