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- San Francisco's oldest park, South Park, is also its newest after a $3.8 million renovation, and was reopened with a ribbon cutting today. [7x7]
- Behold the average starting salaries at San Francisco tech companies: Do with them what you will. [Chron]
- In one of many angry responses to President Trump's new and improved executive order banning travel to the US from majority-Muslim countries, protestors took to the international terminal at SFO. [NBC Bay Area]
- San Francisco’s former chief toxicologist is suing the city as he claims he resigned in 2016 after being “instructed to engage in unlawful activity” by assisting “an unlicensed forensic toxicologist to illegal perform DUI alcohol testing.” [eBAR]
- Join Muir Elementary school students are knitting scarves for homeless people, and dear god is it charming and hopeful. [NBC Bay Area]
- There's no timeline on when residents of Big Sur will be reconnected by roads to the outside world. [KQED]
- Bicycle advocates are angered that proposed protected bike lanes on upper Market Street were not only delayed, but, they claim, sneakily removed from the approvals process completely. [Ex]
- David Talbot continues to focus his Chronicle column on Airbnb, their "colonization" of San Francisco, and the "the brain drain from the Clinton-Obama camps that has flowed into the top ranks of the tech industry." [Chronicle]
- A federal judge ruled that bail bond companies can intervene on their own behalf in the lawsuit that the city and state have declined to defend, which argues that the state's law regarding bail is unfair and discriminatory against the poor. [SFist] [Chron]
- Mark Zuckerberg, who famously dropped out of Harvard will give the school's commencement address this year and receive an honorary degree, finally making him a success. [The Verge]
- This morning’s standoff in Redwood City that shut down two area schools ended with police taking a suicidal man into custody. [ABC7]
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