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- Your weekend ICYMI: Ground has been broken on SF's second-tallest building, Ghost Ship founders Derick Almena and Micah Allison are a complicated pair, Patti Smith honored the fire victims, Ghost Ship building owner Chor Ng proves hard to profile, and a weekend of rain caused a lot of damage.
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Your Saturday and Sunday links.
- A person using a wheelchair was hit and killed by a Paratransit bus in Oakland Monday morning. [KRON 4]
- Craig Newmark, most widely known as the founder of Craigslist, has donated $1 million to The Poynter Institute. [Fishbowl]
- A man with a gun robbed two people early Sunday morning near UC Berkeley. [Bay City News]
- Though Walgreens workers are unionized, someone vandalized this local branch with graffiti that suggested otherwise. [KRON 4]
- Lyft has announced that it will partner with a caregiver platform, San Bruno-based CareLinx, to transport the elderly. [SF Business Times]
- A massive project to modernize medical record-keeping for California prison inmates has more than doubled in cost from original estimates to nearly $400 million in just three years. [Associated Press]
- Searchers on Sunday found a body believed to that of a skier caught in an avalanche on a closed section of Mount Rose Ski Tahoe. [SF Chronicle]
- Facebook has attracted leading social science researchers with its vast trove of user data. But what they publish is tightly controlled. [BuzzFeed]
- While SF's 10-year plan to end homelessness expired in 2014, a new five-year strategy is being developed by Jeff Kositsky, director of the new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. [SF Examiner]
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