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15 March 2017 / SF News / Eve Batey

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful To Women?


  • Police shoot and kill female passenger in vehicle during confrontation in Hayward. [Bay City News]
  • [The Atlantic] asks "Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?"
  • The body of a missing woman, who went missing in 2014, was found at Point Reyes in February. Foul play, police say, is suspected. [KRON 4]
  • Dozens of elected officials in California and Nevada threw their support behind some 17,000 AT&T technicians and call center workers who have been bargaining with their employer for a new contract for nearly a year. [SF Chronicle]
  • An animal sanctuary in Santa Rosa that cares for older, sick or special needs animals is in need of its own rescue. [CBS 5]
  • Steve Jobs was really into fur. [CNet]
  • The formal application for a 96-unit building to rise up to 85 feet in height at the intersection of Market and Duboce, behind the historic façade of the former Gantner Brothers’ Funeral Home building at 1965 Market Street, has been submitted to Planning. [SocketSite]
  • San Francisco's push for super-fast, easier-to-access high-speed internet got another boost this week, when a city supervisor introduced a bill that would allow the city's Department of Public Works to begin issuing micro-trenching city permits for internet providers. [SF Business Times]
  • The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday in support of efforts to divest from banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline. [CBS 5]
  • Details revealed of DA investigations into police shootings. [SF Examiner]
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