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- In a speech Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions referred to marijuana as a “life-wrecking dependency” that is only “slightly less awful” than heroin. [NY Mag]
- Hometown band Third Eye Blind is doing a couple of small shows here at The Chapel and Bottom of the Hill. The Chapel show tickets, for April 6, go on sale Friday morning here. [SF Gate]
- As part of the court settlement over that emissions scam, Volkswagen is donating 350 new electric car charging stations to San Francisco. [SF Business Times]
- You can now follow Google Street View into a volcano. [Google]
- You could buy this condo in the adjacent, shorter Millennium tower for $5.9M. [Curbed]
- Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox, and 55 other tech firms filed briefs opposing Trump's revised travel ban, but Apple, Google, and Microsoft don't sign, unlike in February. [The Verge]
- Conservative advocacy group the Pacific Justice Initiative (the folks behind the Dolores Park pissoir suit) are fighting against pending permits for three medical marijuana dispensaries in SF. [CBS 5]
- Parents of Ghost Ship fire victims spoke to a state senate committee about how better to protect artists and performers using substandard spaces. [East Bay Times]
- Relatedly, SF Weekly interviews former Oakland mayor Jean Quan and her husband about their plans for a Sunset dispensary. [SF Weekly]
- San Jose CHP says they won’t participate in sanctuary movement, worrying local officials. [NBC Bay Area]
- Meanwhile, Fremont just became a sanctuary city. [East Bay Times]
- San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting is writing a bill to revise state law to allow San Francisco to establish a local income tax, i.e. a "millionaire's tax," to offset budget issues. [Examiner]
- Architecture guy John King talks about SFO’s massive redesign. [Chronicle]
