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San Francisco voters approved Prop. C, a ballot measure that will more than double the city’s affordable housing requirement for new housing projects. Housing developers and their supporters are now bracing for how to make future developments financially feasible in a city where building housing is already costly and takes several years. Enlarge Residents wait…
SAN FRANCISCO — Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was forced out on Thursday after a fatal shooting of a black woman by a police officer, the third killing since December involving the police force, which is under federal investigation because of complaints of racial bias. Mayor Edwin M. Lee said he had asked for Chief…
New York City vs. San Francisco: Part Deux — The Cooper Review — Medium. Source: New York City vs. San Francisco: Part Deux — The Cooper Review — Medium
110 years ago next week, on April 18, 1906, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake centered near the city of San Francisco struck at 5:15 AM. The intense shaking toppled hundreds of buildings, but the resulting out-of-control fires were even more destructive. Broken water mains and limited firefighting capabilities allowed city-wide fires to burn for several days….
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Last night, the person in charge of the official San Francisco BART Twitter account lost it. In 57 tweets, the account espoused truth and honesty, and pretty much admitted what everyone in the Bay Area already knows: the crumbling institution kinda sucks. Now, running social media accounts for well-known public entities, be they people, organizations,…
It’s hard not to feel a little thrown when you walk into a public space that’s become a camp for homeless people. At first there may be a moment of shock that economic reality has shown up and made a park or plaza a more complicated place to stroll. But what most people hopefully feel is…
Workers trying to leave Levi’s Stadium after Super Bowl 50. Gabriel Thompson This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. On Super Bowl Sunday, a few minutes before 7 a.m., I park in a crowded dirt lot behind Avaya Stadium, home to the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. I’m carrying…
Almost half of the top 20 employers whose workers contributed to the Sanders campaign last year were companies in Silicon Valley, the Wall Street Journal reports, including Google, Apple, and Microsoft. He received almost $105,000 from employees of the five largest tech firms in the last three months of 2015. The wider trend of smaller…
Reporters were guided by police escort from San Francisco down to the media center in San Jose yesterday and, according to the San Jose Mercury-News the escorts will continue during the week. While the reporters tweeted about how awesome their escorts were (yes, really, they did), it got me wondering who’s paying for all this….