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				<title>Center for Investigative Reporting Says Too Much Journalism Is Interfering With its Mission</title>
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			 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....]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Oakland Crooks Totally Undeterred by Security Guards Hired to Protect News Reporters</title>
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			 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. 

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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:18:19 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Erin Sherbert</author>
			
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				<title>Tumblr Denizens Get Melodramatic Over Yahoo! Purchase</title>
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			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 abandonin...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Dan Mitchell</author>
			
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				<title>San Francisco Bay Area Will Host Super Bowl L in 2016</title>
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			 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-- ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:15:15 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>San Francisco Chronicle Stops Using Term &quot;Illegal Immigrant&quot;</title>
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			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 on...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:34 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Muni Plans to Keep &quot;Israeli Apartheid&quot; Ad Money After Surrendering &quot;Jihad&quot; Ad Funds</title>
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			  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 ha...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Joe Eskenazi</author>
			
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				<title>Supervisor Scott Wiener Wants Sports and Music Fans to Pay More to Help Muni </title>
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			 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...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:25:35 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Erin Sherbert</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Should Sports And Music Fans Pay More For Muni?</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Facebook vs. Eminem: Pissed-Off Rapper Says Mark Zuckerberg Ripped Off His Beats</title>
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			 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. 

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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:18:44 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Erin Sherbert</author>
			
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				<title>Beau Rasmussen, East Bay Man, Goes Missing After Bay to Breakers Race </title>
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			  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. 

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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:07:51 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Erin Sherbert</author>
			
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				<title>Apple Saves Billions by Creatively Exploiting Loopholes of International Tax System</title>
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			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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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:41 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Jaisingh Pawar Identified as Man Found Dead in Marina District Hotel </title>
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			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 ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:37:58 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Dog-Abuse Cases on the Rise in San Francisco </title>
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			  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...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:30:56 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Erin Sherbert</author>
			
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				<title>Central Subway: Federal Overseer Laments &quot;Serious Deficiency&quot; in Time, Money Contingencies</title>
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			  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...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:55:19 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Joe Eskenazi</author>
			
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				<title>Unusually Positive BART Graffiti Offers Commuters a Chance for Self-Help</title>
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			 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. 

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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:15:23 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Erin Sherbert</author>
			
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				<title>Bay to Breakers Was Everything it Promised to Be (Slideshow)</title>
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			 Just because you don't like drunken crowds, doesn't mean you can't enjoy the festivities from afar. Fortunately, for those of you who tend to run to the (Oakland) hills any time San Francisco de...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:45:43 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Man Dies After Falling From Roof During Bay to Breakers House Party</title>
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			  A 28-year-old man died Sunday night after after he reportedly fell from a rooftop while partying with friends at a Bay to Breakers house party.

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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:43 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Occupy Psychiatry: Amid DSM 5 Controversy, Movement Wants to Return to Freud</title>
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			 At first blush, this year's gathering of the American Psychiatric
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:15:17 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Rachel Swan</author>
			
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				<title>S.F. Ghost Scams Spread to New York City</title>
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			Over the past few months, San Francisco  law enforcement has tightened the screws on the ghost scams, in which teams of con artists steal elderly ladies' money by tricking them into thinking a sp...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:33 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Albert Samaha</author>
			
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				<title>Here&apos;s Your Bay to Breakers Traffic Advice</title>
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			 It's that time of year again to put on your finest foppery (ass-less chaps, tutus and chicken masks) and swill cheap beer in the streets. All the things that make for a great footrace in San Fra...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:06 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Katie Tandy</author>
			
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				<title>Here Are Best Worst Craigslist Bike Ads This Week</title>
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			Any cyclist who knows bikes and knows Craigslist has come across -- way too often -- those sketchy shops shilling in the "by owner" section and the obviously stolen bike ads. Then there's the clu...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:01 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Leif Haven</author>
			
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