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Six months ago, I hopped on a plane and said goodbye to winter. After spending 92 percent of my life on the East Coast — and the last nine years in New York City — I was moving to San Francisco, along with thousands of other migrants. When I landed, I was struck by the mild weather and the…

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Bittersweet Portraits of People in San Francisco Living in Boats, Cars, Garages, Trailers, and Tents – Feature Shoot

Chinese born, California based photographer Wenxin Zhang created Goodnight Stories during a time in 2011 when she was a new comer to San Francisco. Feeling anxiety about this new environment and the pressure to be a young adult, she sought after strangers with whom to connect. Taking to the internet, she found a community of…

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Black Women in San Francisco Are Nearly 50% of City’s Female Arrests, and Only 6% of the Female Population | Alternet

 NEW YORK CITY – DECEMBER 27 2014: several protesters gathered at the Pink Houses for a march to Police Services Area #2 station demanding justice for Akai Gurley, who was killed by Peter Liang. Photo Credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com BODY According to a new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice African-American women in San…

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EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone, America’s biggest landlord, investing in Oakland – San Francisco Business Times

[if lte IE 9]>< ![endif] Google Publisher Tags Google Analytics End Google Analytics /.off-canvas TEMPLATE T1 BODY The Blackstone Group LP, the biggest landlord in the country with tens of thousands of residential units, is investing in Oakland, becoming the largest real estate player yet to arrive in the burgeoning city. New York-based Blackstone (NYSE:BX)…

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Business Insider is hiring a transportation tech reporter – Business Insider

APWant to write about the Hyperloop? Business Insider is hiring a reporter to write about the technology influencing the future of transportation. If you’re interested in covering the world of driverless cars, innovation in flight, Apple’s CarPlay, Android Auto, the Hyperloop, and everything else changing the way we get around, then this is the job for you….

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Marc Andreessen and Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey Grow Lincoln Beards | Re/code

Consider this newest and perhaps hairiest of trends in Silicon Valley these days: The hipster lumbersexual has merged with the tech elite, creating the world’s wealthiest cavemen. Jack Dorsey, of Twitter and Square fame, was the first to be spotted sporting heavy chin whiskers, in a picture Kara Swisher tweeted after visiting him. She described…

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