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San Francisco School Offers Unorthodox Education To Second Chance Students

Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: Diploma, Treasure Island, Construction, Ged, Students, San Francisco, John Muir Charter School, Second Chance, Impact News

There are 105 San Francisco students receiving an unconventional education at John Muir Charter School on Treasure Island. Their school administrators...

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9 Ways To Show Your Gratitude On Thanksgiving Day

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact

Read More: Karen Armstrong, Tweetsgiving, Gratitude, Charter for Compassion, Thanksgiving, Epic Change, Homeless Shelter, Ann Arbor, Sponsor a Family in Need, Veterans, 29 Day Giving Challenge, Soldiers, Feed the Homeless, Hungry Families, Meals on Wheels, Care Packages, Homeless, Hunger U.S., Feeding America, San Francisco, Family-to-Family, Turkey Trot, Thanksgiving Gratitude, Impact News

Favorite Turkey Recipe? Check. Special occasion dishes and gravy boat? Check, check. Ways to express your gratitude this Thanksgiving? Don't worry, we...

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San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime

Kimberly Marteau Emerson | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Smart on Crime, Criminal Justice, Back on Track, Ex-Offender-Re-Entry-Programs, San Francisco, California Prisons, Books News
Kimberly Marteau Emerson

What does it mean to be "smart on crime?" Are we not being smart now? Answers from author and San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris.

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Michael Joseph Gibson: Suspect Injured After BART Officer Appears To Smash Head Into Window (VIDEO)

Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Use of Force, Video, BART Police, Bart, Window, West Oakland, San Francisco, Face, Police Window, Police Brutality, Face Window, Bay Area, Home News

Transit police in California are facing questions over use-of-force after another controversial video surfaced on YouTube. The latest clip was titled ...

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Richmond Gang Rape Prompts City's Reflection

AP | TERRY COLLINS and EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Rape, California, Homecoming, Crime, Homecoming Dance, Margarita Vargas, Richmond, Richmond Gang Rape, Richmond High School, Gang Rape, Alcohol, San Francisco, Home News

RICHMOND, Calif. — Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard ...

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'House Of Soul' Concert Shooting Injures 12 In San Francisco

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Regency Ballroom, KMEL Concert, San Francisco, Concert Security, Crime, Sf, Security, Kmel Concert Shooting, 12 Shot, 12 Shot at KMEL Concert, Home News

SAN FRANCISCO — A gunman opened fire at a group of fighting men, injuring 12 people outside a concert hall, authorities said Monday. The gunfir...

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Restaurant Composts Food Waste (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Landfills, Recycle, Restaurant, commercial_composting, Composting, City Conservation, Portland Oregon, Food Waste, San Francisco, Food, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

I started composting at home almost 2 years ago. My plan was to build a few vegetable garden beds, start growing some of my own food, and go from th...

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Why I Hate San Francisco

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 11.10.2009 | Style

Read More: San Francisco Parking, San Francisco, Dpt, Style News
Aaron Greenspan

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This picture was taken on the morning of November 3, 2009 at the corner of 8th and Market in San Franci...

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Trucker Dies As Big-Rig Plummets Off San Francisco Bridge

AP | SUDHIN THANAWALA | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco Bridge Deaths, San Francisco Bridge, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, San Francisco Bridge Accidents, S Curve, S Curve Detour, Bay Bridge S Curve, Scurve, Sf, Bay Bridge, S-Curve, Home News

SAN FRANCISCO — An accident-plagued stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge saw its first fatality Monday when the driver of a speeding ...

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Letter From Paris: Apple Mania!

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Steve Jobs, Apple Ipod, Macbook, MacBook Pro, Apple Iphone, Apple, Apple Computers, San Francisco, Paris, World News
Beth Arnold

I had heard rumors before that an Apple store was coming to my town, but on Saturday, yes, kids, an Apple store opened in Paris. And I had to see it.

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Bloomberg's Legacy Is at Risk -- Here's How He Can Save It

John Petro | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Elections, Equality, Minimum Wage, Inclusionary Zoning, San Francisco, Bill Thompson, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, New York News
John Petro

Even during the boom, many New Yorkers saw their wages stagnate while housing prices escalated. Under Bloomberg, New York saw extraordinary growth, but it was far from equitable.

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How to Go From Jamoke to Chicagoan in Under 40 Minutes

David Murray | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Scott Jacobs, Bill Veeck, Easter Egg Hunt, Joe Cummings, Studs Terkel, Patterson, Nelson Algren, Media Burn Independent Video Archive, Chicago History, New Jersey, David Murray, San Francisco, Mike Royko, Tom Weinberg, Chicago Philosopher, Cabrini-Green, Wbbm, Jane Byrne, Chicago News
David Murray

I've got this intern from San Francisco working for me. How'm I ever gonna explain to this kid what makes Chicago different, different from anywhere else? I'm gonna start with these six short videos.

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Wall Street Journal San Francisco Edition Launching

AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: San Francisco, Newspapers, Wall Street Journal, Media News

NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal says its new San Francisco Bay Area edition will launch Thursday, with a weekly section devoted to local news...

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Timing For Newsom in Governor Race, All Wrong

Mira Veda | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, California, Gavin Newsom, San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Politics News
Mira Veda

Perhaps, in a few years when he's proven he has the character everyone admired in him in the first place he can jump into another race in politics.

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The San Francisco Bay Bridge And an Ethics Revolution

Leslie Griffith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Bay Bridge, San Francisco, Journalists, Caltrans, Ethics, Media News
Leslie Griffith

Amazingly, the only thing I learned from the media coverage of the Bay Bridge accident was that Caltrans and reporters get along swimmingly. It's time journalists ask some real questions.

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Evolve or Die: Why Reinvent Independent Bookstores?

Praveen Madan | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Business, Book Industry, Reinvention, Independent Booksellers, Booksmith, Charles Darwin, Independent Bookstores, Walmart, Target, Bookstores, Bookselling, San Francisco, Books, Books News
Praveen Madan

We believe that independent bookstores can have a great future and we are betting our careers on it.

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Citzen's Arrest and Mass Disruption of Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in San Francisco

Ali Abunimah | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: World Affairs Council, Gaza, San Francisco, Ehud Olmert, World News
Ali Abunimah

Bay Area residents attempted a citizen's arrest of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, while he gave a speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco on 22 October 2009.

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San Francisco Starts Mandatory Composting This Week

Mother Nature Network | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Composting, Green Living, Composting Law, San Francisco, San Franciso Composting, Green News

While mandatory recycling laws are something starting to take shape in several cities across America, San Francisco is moving things a step further by...

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Twenty Years After Loma Prieta: Is Northern California Really Prepared for the Next Big Quake?

Greg Archer | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Loma Prieta Earthquake, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Bay Area, Living News
Greg Archer

Like most people living in the Bay Area at the time, I can vividly recall the day the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit back in October, 1989.

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Nicholas Kristof Talks About Sex Trafficking, Rape and Raising Kids

Mona Gable | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky, San Francisco, International Museum of Women, Nick Kristof, Media News
Mona Gable

"People always ask, how do you do all this and stay married?" he said to the audience. Let's just say the books are easier to put to bed than the kids. "Books don't play you against each other."

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Reflections on the Loma Prieta Earthquake, 20 Years Later

Art Agnos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Loma Prieta Earthquake, Herb Caen, Mission District, First Responders, Natural Disasters, Red Cross, George Deukmejian, Earthquake, Pete Wilson, Fema, Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Bay Bridge, California, Santa Cruz, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, World Series, Nancy Pelosi, Disaster Preparedness, Disasters, Marin, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Fbi, Embarcadero, Presidio, Politics News
Art Agnos

When a disaster hits, it is too late to put your best people in charge of planning and preparation. That's not the place for soft political patronage.

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Obama To Critics: Don't Tell Me I'm Holding The Mop The Wrong Way

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dnc Fundraising Dinner, Pelosi Obama, Congress, California, DNC Fundraiser, Nancy Pelosi, Obama Mop, President Obama, Pelosi, Obama, San Francisco, Obama Cleaning Up Mess, Politics News

On Thursday night at a DNC fundraising dinner in San Francisco, President Obama took a new analogy in addressing his critics. "Another way of putting ...

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Obama Owes Progressives Answers Tonight in San Francisco on Three Health Care Questions

Jamie Court | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Erisa, Fundraising, San Francisco, Nataline Sarkisyan, President Obama, Barack Obama San Francisco, Politics News
Jamie Court

Obama owes San Franciscans some honest answers about how his health care plan lives up to the progressive legacy.

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Michelle Obama and I Agree: Commit to the Arts in Schools

Michael Tilson Thomas | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pbs, Michelle Obama, Classical Music Reviews, San Francisco Symphony, Arts, Keeping Score Season 2, Arts Funding, Barack Obama, Classical Music, Keeping Score, Kqed, San Francisco, PBS Documentaries, San Francisco-California, Michael Tilson Thomas, Symphony, National Endowment for the Arts, Entertainment News
Michael Tilson Thomas

With state budgets under attack, we in the arts are bracing for a familiar song: whether or not to fund arts in the schools.

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Obama's Visits -- Compare the Length of the Stays

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Obama Visits New Orleans, San Francisco, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

President Obama spends four whole hours tomorrow in New Orleans, and then 16 hours in San Francisco. They must have experienced a hell of a federal disaster there.

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