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Alamo Square Gas Leak and Fire Prompt Fulton Street Evacuation
The gas leak did catch fire and blazed the Fulton Street sidewalk, and PG&E has cut the gas lines in the neighborhood.
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Dublin Teen Harassed Online by Gun Dealer For Organizing Black Lives Matter Event
The gun dealer has since apologized for and taken down his posts with a picture of the teen, with messages like “bring your vests and helmets” and “get ready for a fun couple hours.”
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San Francisco May Try to Ban Cigarette and Pot Smoking Inside Apartments
A new nanny-state ordinance coming from the Board of Supervisors proposes banning all smoking — including vapes and cannabis smoking — in apartment buildings of more than three units.
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8 Tips for Attending Virtual MBA Events
If you’ve been planning on attending an MBA tour event where you would have had the chance to engage with school admissions reps and other MBA candidates in person, you may be wondering, how do I make an impression during a virtual MBA tour event.
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SFPD Seeks Motorcyclist Who Struck 90-Year-Old Woman in Diamond Heights Hit-and-Run
San Francisco police are seeking the public's help in locating a motorcyclist suspected in a hit-and-run Wednesday afternoon that badly injured a 90-year-old woman.
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Deluded Trump Supporters Rally In Danville, Insist He Won Reelection Because He Said So
Here in the Bay Area we don't need to look further than eastern Contra Costa County to find some Trump supporters who think the election is far from decided.
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The Endup, Mr. Bing's Among SF Bars That Have Been Shut Down By Health Department for COVID Violations
The city has caught almost a dozen bars being loose with COVID rules on multiple occasions and ordered them temporarily shut down. But, like, who's really going to The Endup for dinner?
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Thursday Morning What's Up: California Nears One Million COVID Cases
SF firefighter Matt Vann is being treated for a traumatic brain injury following a Nov. 2 accident, DA Chesa Boudin has been delayed in refiling charges in an infamous police brutality case from 2016, and Santa Cruz is closing the Beach Boardwalk due to rising COVID cases.
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Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Man Talks About Getting Pfizer's Vaccine
Four out of five Americans accept that Biden won the election according to a new poll, a snowplow driver near Yosemite finds two dead bodies, and a Bay Area man talks about taking part in Pfizer's COVID vaccine trial.
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Biden Press Secretary Lambasts Facebook Over Post-Election Misinformation
Facebook continues taking it from all sides in this election year, with Democrats generally livid that President Trump continues to have a presence on the platform at all, and conservatives and Trumpists generally annoyed that Facebook has done what little it's done to curb the president's lies.
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CA Supreme Court Gets Its First Openly Gay Justice, SF Native Martin Jenkins
San Francisco native and former NFL cornerback Martin Jenkins, who has served on the California Court of Appeal for the First District since 2008, just became the fifth-ever Black associate justice named to the California Supreme Court, and the first justice on the court ever to be openly gay.
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SF Rapper Andre Nickatina Creates Sneaker Line with Local Clothing Designer “Deezoe the Clothing Coach”
Andre Nickatina’s new line of Italian-made sneakers dubbed ‘Killer Whales’ is a collaboration with local clothing designer Magdy Kotb, also known as Deezoe the Clothing Coach. Kotb is the grandson of
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Contra Costa County is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice’
Contra Costa County supervisors argue that systemic racism is a COVID-19 superspreader too, and approved a new social justice office that will not initially involve taxpayer dollars.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Local Chef Tanya Holland Lands TV Show On Oprah's Channel, Premiering This Weekend
Brown Sugar Kitchen chef-owner and one-time Top Chef contestant Tanya Holland is returning to television this week with her own show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, 'Tanya's Kitchen Table.'
SF Politics
Prop 15 Goes Down By Narrow Margin as CA Voters Are Reluctant to Tax Businesses In a Pandemic
One progressive measure among a slew of California ballot propositions this election might have stood more of a chance had we not been in the middle of a pandemic-triggered recession.
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New Ordinance Will Require SFO Employers to Provide Healthcare to More Workers
SF's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a new ordinance requiring many employers with workers at SFO — including catering workers, cabin cleaners, and baggage handlers — to pay for healthcare family plans for those workers.
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SF Restaurants Face Grim Winter With No Indoor Seats; Some Say City Should Make Exceptions For Those Being Extra-Safe
Tuesday's announcement shutting down indoor dining in San Francisco did not come as a complete surprise to some chefs — and it confirmed fears that many had about jumping on the bandwagon and rehiring staff when indoor dining first began at limited capacity six weeks ago.
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Humpday Headlines: Oakland Approves Settlement In Final Ghost Ship Lawsuit
Bay Area transit officials are hoping for bailout funds from the Biden Administration, the SF Unified School District is planning for in-person classes starting in late January, and Oakland's City Council just approved a $399K settlement for the last Ghost Ship-related lawsuit.
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Day Around the Bay: Study Confirms That Crowded Indoor Spaces Spread COVID
Scott Wiener wants to legalize psychedelics, another Marin County school has stopped in-person classes due to kids partying, and Chief Justice John Roberts isn't having it with Republicans' challenges to Obamacare.
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Four Years Into Van Ness Bus Lane Project, Red Concrete Gets Poured for Lanes
SF residents are mostly confused, but also royally annoyed and angered, that the SFMTA's seemingly straightforward project to add bus rapid-transit lanes down the center of Van Ness Avenue has somehow taken four years.
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SF Offices of Law Firm Jones Day Targeted With Protest As Lawyers Continue to Press Trump's Baseless Election Challenges
If you want to know what enablers of an autocrat look like in the years before a country a plunges into autocracy, look no further than spineless Republicans this week, and law firm Jones Day, which has an SF office.
Arts & Entertainment
Restored Video Brings 1930s Market Street to Life, In Full HD and Color
Another one of those “Trip Down Market Street” videos, this one from the 1930s, pops with color and is upscaled to very realistic high definition.
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San Francisco Shuts Down Indoor Dining as Cases Spike; Contra Costa County Returns to Red Tier
SF Mayor London Breed and Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax did what they said multiple times this year that they didn't want to have to do, which is roll back the reopening of businesses after already opening them.
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Oakland Homicide Count Hits 100 Following Another Violent Weekend
There were five violent deaths in Oakland between Saturday and Monday, including four fatal shootings, bringing the city's total for the year to 100 — putting it on track to match or exceed homicide numbers not seen in a decade.
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Cold Snap Brings Overnight Lows Below Freezing to Much of Bay Area
Everyone around the Bay woke up to fairly frigid temps Tuesday morning, and this just a week after the region experienced an extended warm spell and a record-hot and dry October.