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Dropbox to Cut 11% of Its Global Workforce
The move will affect 315 people, who will be notified by the end of the business day.
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McConnell, Pelosi Homes Vandalized After $2,000 Relief Fails
According to police, they responded to a call reporting vandalism at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home around 2 a.m. New Year’s Day.
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Preventing Suicide: The LGBTQ+ Community
People in the LGBTQ+ community are at a higher risk of attempting suicide than many other groups in society. Suicide attempt survivors and advocates say we need to do better to let young LGBTQ+ people know they matter and that suicide is not the answer. The is one of a series of reports from our award-winning 2017 investigation: Preventing Suicide:…
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Gingerbread Monolith Delights San Francisco on Christmas Day
A nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day
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People Are Migrating to These Cities Amid Covid-19: LinkedIn
According to a recent report from LinkedIn, Americans have been flocking to cities like Austin, Phoenix and Nashville the most during the pandemic.
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Buying an Electric Scooter Was the Best Thing I Did in 2020 — Here's Why
At the start of 2020, I found myself riding around on electric scooters in lieu of more costly Uber and Lyft rides, so in February, I decided to bite the bullet and buy my own.
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Home-Flipping Profits Are the Highest in 20 Years, But Fewer Are Doing It
While home-flipping activity overall dropped in the third quarter of this year, gross returns for flippers soared to the highest level in 20 years.
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Airbnb Nomads Are Ditching Their Apartments in Pandemic-Ridden Cities and Living Wherever They Want
The Covid-19 pandemic and work-from-home policies have resulted in a wave of nomadic working professionals who have ditched their apartments for Airbnbs.
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San Francisco Board Rebukes Naming Hospital for Facebook CEO
San Francisco supervisors overwhelmingly approved a resolution to condemn the naming of the city’s public hospital for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan
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10 Cities Where the Cost of Living Has Gotten Cheaper
Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March, housing prices have increased in some suburbs, pushing up the cost of living, but other places have gotten cheaper.
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Many Californians Brace for New Lockdown as Virus Cases Soar
Many Californians are preparing for a new stay-at-home order that bars restaurant dining, shutters salons and limits retail in an effort to curb spiraling coronavirus infections and hospitalizations.
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Floating Fire Station Arrives in San Francisco
The two-story facility sits on a massive steel float and will begin operating in the spring of 2021.
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Couple Who Tested Positive for COVID-19 Arrested After Boarding Flight
A couple in Hawaii is facing reckless endangerment charges after boarding a flight with their 4-year-old despite having tested positive for COVID-19, police said.
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‘Good Riddance': Tech's Flight From San Francisco Is a Relief to Some Advocates
Many urban centers have seen residents move out in large numbers since the start of stay-at-home orders in March, but the shift has been especially dramatic for San Francisco, a city that was already experiencing rapid change because of the tech industry, NBC News reports.
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Ex-San Francisco Cop Charged in 2017 Fatal Shooting of Man
A former San Francisco police officer who fatally shot an unarmed carjacking suspect in 2017 has been charged with manslaughter.
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FTC Sues Savings App Beam Financial, Demanding Customers Get Their Money Back
The Federal Trade Commission filed a civil complaint against Beam Financial, which claims to offer above-market interest rates on federally insured deposits.
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Everything You Need to Know About San Francisco's CAREN Act That Criminalizes Racist 911 Calls
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved the CAREN Act, which criminalizes racially biased 911 calls. Shamann Walton, a member of the board, says people should not be allowed to use 911 as a “customer service line” for racism.
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Tensions Escalate at ‘Free Speech' Rally in San Francisco
Tensions quickly escalated in what organizers called a free speech rally and protest held Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.
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Appellate Judges Let 2020 Census Continue Through October
A panel of three appellate judges has upheld a lower court order allowing the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident to continue through October.
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San Francisco Rents Plunge, Showing Strain From Pandemic and Wildfires
Rent prices continued to plunge across the U.S. this past month, with San Francisco leading the decline, according to data from Zumper, a real-estate startup. The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco dropped more than 20% from a year ago, to $2,830, according to the report. That’s the largest decline the company has recorded. Month-to-month, the price...