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"Travel Like a Local" Tips for San Francisco Tourists

2013-05-22 13:45:10

A cheery publication aimed at visitors to our fair city encouraging them to "travel like a local" on public transit is a massive softball waiting to be belted over the fence and deep, deep into ...

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Academy of Arts Students Help Resolve S.F. Bike Parking Problem

2013-05-22 13:40:58

If soon you find it a tad easier to find a place to park your bike around Yerba Buena, they you have the clever and artsy students of San Francisco to thank. A team from San Francisco's Academy...

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Marc Tanzer Idenfitied as Man Whose Body Was Found Floating in the Bay

2013-05-22 12:55:48

Medical authorities have finally identified the man whose body was discovered drifting in the Bay three weeks ago as 58-year-old Marc Tanzer. Tanzer was a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, accordin...

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Harvey Milk Day: "Pro-Family" Group Says Kids Need to Skip School Today and Plug Their Ears

2013-05-22 09:00:00

It's that time of the year when Save California, a "family values group" (aka anti-gay group) begs parents to keep their kids home from school today so as to not expose the children to anything r...

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Those "Pot-Fed Pigs" Aren't Getting High, But Possibly Healthier

2013-05-22 08:30:12

The Washington state hog farmer whose pigs are fed marijuana trim has been all the rage on the Internet over the last few days. And with good reason: the barnyard animals who had leaves, stem...

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Cameron Myers Murder: Cops Arrest Teen in Nevada

2013-05-22 07:45:53

A 15-year-old boy was arrested this week on suspicion of stabbing 20-year-old Cameron Myers to death in the city's Bayview neighborhood. At about 1:40 a.m. on May 15, police were called to the ...

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Center for Investigative Reporting Says Too Much Journalism Is Interfering With its Mission

2013-05-22 07:00:00

March 22, San Francisco -- Center for Investigative Reporting Executive Director Robert Rosenthal announced today that the CIR will improve the quality of its journalism by doing way less of it. ...

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Oakland Crooks Totally Undeterred by Security Guards Hired to Protect News Reporters

2013-05-21 16:18:19

You know crime has gotten out of control when thieves are not only victimizing news reporters, but also the security guards specifically hired to protect news reporters from would-be thieves. T...

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Tumblr Denizens Get Melodramatic Over Yahoo! Purchase

2013-05-21 15:00:00

It has been amusing to watch some of the sillier, more melodramatic reactions to Yahoo's announcement that it will buy the blogging platform Tumblr. Given Yahoo's history of wrecking or abandoning...

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San Francisco Bay Area Will Host Super Bowl L in 2016

2013-05-21 14:15:15

The Bay Area will host Superbowl L in 2016. The decision, voted on by NFL team owners today, was not much of a surprise. The league has been eager to reward franchises that build new stadiums-- t...

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San Francisco Chronicle Stops Using Term "Illegal Immigrant"

2013-05-21 12:06:34

Language frames discourse. Which is why liberals say "global warming" and "estate tax," and conservatives say "climate change" and "death tax." This sort of dichotomy has been most apparent in ong...

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Muni Plans to Keep "Israeli Apartheid" Ad Money After Surrendering "Jihad" Ad Funds

2013-05-21 11:59:59

To date, Muni has opted to surrender $15,780 from four different runs of inflammatory ads demonizing Muslims. Now Supervisor Scott Wiener, working with the Jewish Community Relations Council has...

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Supervisor Scott Wiener Wants Sports and Music Fans to Pay More to Help Muni

2013-05-21 09:25:35

If you're still recovering from the fact you had to dip into your savings to see the Rolling Stones play in San Francisco earlier this month, well consider yourself lucky that you didn't have to ...

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Facebook vs. Eminem: Pissed-Off Rapper Says Mark Zuckerberg Ripped Off His Beats

2013-05-21 08:18:44

Eminem, the prolific and profane rapper, is suing fellow billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO whose idea of irreverence is adding tickers to your Facebook wall. According to the Detroit ...

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Beau Rasmussen, East Bay Man, Goes Missing After Bay to Breakers Race

2013-05-21 07:07:51

Friends and family of 27-year-old Beau Rasmussen continued their search this morning for the Emeryville man who disappeared on Sunday after running the Bay to Breakers race. His friends tell K...

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Apple Saves Billions by Creatively Exploiting Loopholes of International Tax System

2013-05-20 16:55:41

Think different, Apple tells the world. The Cupertino company, whose creations have defined our technological age, apparently applies the same innovative thinking to its tax evasion strategies. ...

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Jaisingh Pawar Identified as Man Found Dead in Marina District Hotel

2013-05-20 15:37:58

San Francisco authorities have identified the man who mysteriously died at a Marina hotel last week as 45-year-old Jaisingh Pawar. Police have yet to disclose how the man died, but believe his d...

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Dog-Abuse Cases on the Rise in San Francisco

2013-05-20 14:30:56

Staff over at the Animal Care & Control have been finding work a little more stressful than usual, as they've noticed a disturbing increase in animal-abuse cases as of late. In the last several ...

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Central Subway: Federal Overseer Laments "Serious Deficiency" in Time, Money Contingencies

2013-05-20 10:55:19

Federal officials "concerned that it has taken the Central Subway Project so long to address this serious deficiency." If time is, indeed, money, the Central Subway project is in double trouble....

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Unusually Positive BART Graffiti Offers Commuters a Chance for Self-Help

2013-05-20 10:15:23

It's damn near never that you're going to get on BART and feel better about yourself no matter how many accounts you scored that day at work. The nausea will always win. And even when the BART ...

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