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When The Marine Mammal Center in Sausolito needed assistance, it turned to PG&E, but not for help in keeping the...More»
This was supposed to be the summer that the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee emerged from its prolonged funk. Supporters say that the group has turned the corner on the worst of its financial...More»
As President of the Board of Supervisors, David Chiu has carved out a reputation as a cautious, compromise-minded politician. So he must have felt like a fish out of water during his eight-day tour of one of the world's most...More»
Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, has become Silicon Valley's ranking internal affairs cop. In a series of writings—including his 2006 essay "...More»
Since the Boston Marathon bombings, cities around the country have been struggling to beef up security at major public events. San Francisco Chief of Police Greg Suhr floated one possibility on April 22nd, suggesting that, "We...More»
NBA veteran and former Stanford baller Jason Collins charged out of the closet today as the first openly gay athlete in male pro team sports—news he revealed in a first-person tell-all piece in...More»
It was June of last year, and Shawn Nguyen and his girlfriend were running late to an event. Not wanting to roll the dice on one of San Francisco’s taxi dispatch companies (he lives in the Inner Richmond, a...More»
Dating back to his time on the Board of Supervisors, State Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has been a strong advocate against what he sees as the criminalization of...More»
Getting an audience with a City Hall politician usually involves a frustrating choreography. You show up at her office, only to find a front-desk staffer who pretends that she’s never heard of you. Then there’s a phone...More»
THE CONUNDRUM There are few people in the Bay Area more dialed-in, networked up, Oprah power-listed, and philanthropically connected than Lateefah Simon. Simon, the teen mom and budding activist who,...More»
Online aggregation can tap into the wisdom of the crowd or lead to a digital lynch mob—and the double-edged nature of the technology was on full display last week in responses to the terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon....More»
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