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While Urban Alchemy described camouflage as a “widely popular pattern,” others beg to differ.
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Urban Alchemy's recent sartorial choices are ruffling some feathers
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My exploration into the growing #microinfluencer scene in San Francisco and how small businesses are building a symbiotic relationship with these content creators.
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BREAKING: A man accused of firing blanks in a #SanFrancisco #synagogue appears to have posted images of antisemitic propaganda and himself in a German WWII uniform featuring a swastika.
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Contrary to popular belief, San Franciscans’ favorite rainy day activity isn’t staying home and making soup, it is mindlessly driving around honking like an asshole
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PG&E is at it again
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In response to inflation along with new investments and maintenance, @PGE4Me plans to increase all energy bills by 16.3%
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“Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives,” told .
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Enter the Fiveplex: the mullet of multi-family living designs—from sfstandard.com/housing-develo via
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SF rehab nonprofit Baker Places is supposed to help its clients graduate into independent living.
But clients say care is hard to come by there—and that absence of care has resulted in at least four fatal overdoses and one suicide. (1/3)
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Baker Places collected tens of millions in city funds despite longstanding 🚩🚩, incl. allegations of "warehousing" clients and financial mismanagement that came to a head last year.
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Clients of the nonprofit describe a culture of carelessness and impunity where concerns about drug dealing and use inside its facilities are ignored.
“I was able to sell dope out of this house,” said one resident. “I could’ve easily overdosed, and nobody would’ve cared.”
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NEW: At least three people fatally overdosed and one died by suicide at programs run by Baker Places, a nonprofit that fell under scrutiny after it asked the city for two emergency bailouts.
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Clients of the nonprofit Baker Places say rampant drug dealing and use at their facilities leaves them vulnerable to relapse and death.
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Can you smell what, uh, sensible policy platform The Rock is cooking for the people of California?
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Will Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson follow in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s footsteps in launching a bid for a high-profile office in CA?
Based on recent domain name filings—and the former wrestling champ’s own flirtations with a political run—it’s a possibility.
sfstandard.com/politics/is-th
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When asked what he wants in a home, an 11-year-old's answer was simple: “To eat well, be stable, not have to get up at 6 a.m.”
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1/ I served as a police officer for ten years. This article gets to a substantial part of the problem, but there’s far more we must address in order to prevent another George Floyd, Tyre Nichols, or cops joining hard-right extremist militias. A (long)🧵:
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Customers around California have been reporting skyrocketing PG&E bills this winter, with some totals tallying up to twice their normal payments.
What exactly is going on? Heres with the breakdown in my latest video.
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Transit officials cited 92 incidents in which wayward robotaxis obstructed travelers and emergency responders.
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"Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home," wrote the Currys.
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""We hesitate to add to the "not in our backyard" (literally) rhetoric, but..."
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Was your PG&E bill CRAZY this month?
Looking to speak with folks in the Bay Area who are cutting back on energy use after getting gigantic bills this winter.
If this is you, DM me please 🙏
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Sharky Laguana's time as head of San Francisco's Small Business Commission is coming to a close.
But still has a lot to say about the city's biggest problems.
He's also got one big idea for improving the city. Read our Q & A at the link. ⬇️
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Sick Peskin releases committee assignments; Preston drops other shoe in City Hall housing wars; more
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JUST IN: A defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers was arrested in San Jose on Monday for suspected misdemeanor violence.
The survivor is an adult female who called to report that her boyfriend pushed her to the ground during an argument.
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Is it just me or are NextMuni predictions fully divorced from reality?
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San Francisco’s annual overdose deaths doubled in the years since 's editor-in-chief died from acute fentanyl intoxication.
Few were aware this was the cause.
He was among 2,000+ who've died by overdose since 2019.
Story by
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The person suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a driver who fled the scene.
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Another hit-and-run at Van Ness and Bay. It doesn't look good.
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SF politicians agreed this week to permit a nonprofit to open a safe consumption site.
But a disagreement erupted on Friday over how the sites can—and can't—be funded.
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City officials said this week that they'll permit SF nonprofits to open safe-consumption sites.
But a disagreement is brewing over how exactly the sites can be funded.
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I am super pumped about this. Georgian cuisine🤌and hard to find here!
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Big news for those who know Georgian cuisine and, hopefully, also big news for those who are going to find out about it: #SanFrancisco is getting its first Georgian restaurant. sfstandard.com/arts-culture/s
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Some say everyone in the world is connected by no more than six degrees of separation.
Take, for instance, San Francisco’s only individual donors to the endlessly embarrassing Republican Congressman George Santos.
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Leaders at are considering creating a nonprofit to solicit funds for homelessness.
It comes as the homelessness crisis increasingly spills over into trains and stations, with BART and other public transit systems becoming de facto shelters.
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Art Gallery Owner Who Hosed Homeless Woman sfstandard.com/criminal-justi via &
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JUST IN: SF Mayor and Sup. have introduced a law that, if passed, would allow a nonprofit to open a safe consumption site using private funding and following the 'New York model.'
More at the link. ⬇️
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The complaint alleges that workers were threatened for participating in a unionization drive.
It also said that managers implied that workers’ organizing activities were under surveillance—and that they could be rewarded if they abstained from unionizing.
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“Silicon Valley is just an unbelievably productive place for business, whereas people are more in San Francisco for the lifestyle or the incredible beauty.”
“Nobody is in San Jose for the scenery or the nightlife, if we’re being honest.”
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I took a closer look at why Silicon Valley's office market has remained more resilient even as San Francisco's return to office numbers have leapfrogged its neighbor to the south.
sfstandard.com/business/why-s
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