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- 49ers new GM John Lynch and Coach Kyle Shanahan meet the press. [SFBay]
- An SFPD pursuit ends as a suspect slams into a police van. [KRON4]
- Check out the plans for a pretty massive 36-story tower at 555 Howard with trees on top. [SocketSite]
- A gaping maw in a Santa Cruz mountain road swallows a van. [ABC7]
- Oakland’s new police chief is set to receive $270,000 a year, the highest base pay of any police chief in city history. [Chron]
- Berkeley's naive mayor is alarmed by the amount of hate mail he’s received in the wake of protests that cancelled a University speaking engagement with alt-right person Milo Yiannopoulos. [CBS5] [SFist]
- Was the Sheriff’s deputy arrested by the FBI on charges relating to a potentially faked robbery, wherein she allegedly provided a gun to her ex-con boyfriend, married to another inmate jailed on murder allegations? [Ex]
- Otto, Uber’s self driving truck startup, could be breaking CA law, which would really shock us all. [Chron]
- Muni will soon be blanketed with ads encouraging businesses to hire of trans workers. [Ex]
- "San Francisco is actually one of the worst-paying places in the US for software engineers" reads the headline of an article that completely omits the operative phrase "When you adjust for the cost of living." [Quartz]
- Billionaire bad guy Peter Thiel won’t be involved in Y Combinator’s work with the ACLU, as YC seemingly attempts to distance itself from him for reasons that should be obvious. [SFist] [Tech Crunch]
- Cool new Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with some CA sheriffss including one from Contra Costa County, angering some who protested. [NBC Bay Area]
- Protestors hope to spell out "Resist Trump" for an aerial photo on Ocean Beach. [Ex]
