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In Shock Vote, Peskin Elected Board President After 17 Ballots | Jan 9, 2023
Amazon halts work on SF warehouse after delivery center moratorium | March 23, 2022
San Francisco is hitting pause on Amazon's delivery expansion | March 23, 2022
Wednesday Digest: Amazon halts S.F. construction; LGBTQ group tapped for Castro Theatre revamp | March 23, 2022
San Francisco Proposes Moratorium on New Amazon Delivery Stations | Feb 15, 2022
San Francisco is proposing a temporary ban on new Amazon delivery centers | Feb 15, 2022
Pink Triangle Ceremony Kicks Off Pride Month Tonight, But Many LGBTQ Groups Will Boycott Over Breed’s Police Stance | June 1, 2022
Amazon Halts Work on San Francisco Depot After City Moratorium | March 23, 2022
Amazon Hits Pause on its SoMa Delivery Center After SF Officials Approve Temporary Zoning Controls | March 22, 2022
SF Neighbors Who Wanted Amazon Hub Site to Remain Industrial Now Not Happy That It's Remaining Industrial | Feb 15, 2022
Amazon in SF: City Quietly Inked Agreement on Proposed Delivery Hub, Raising Hackles Over Back-Room Dealing | Jan 31, 2022
SF Supervisors Halt Amazon’s New Warehouse Plan With Parcel Delivery Moratorium | March 25, 2022
San Francisco Passes Moratorium on Delivery Warehouses To Shake Down Amazon | March 23, 2022
Amazon pauses work on proposed San Francisco warehouse after city supervisors vote on delivery moratorium | March 22, 2022
S.F. supervisor wants to delay Amazon’s proposed expansion by 18 months | Feb 15, 2022
Unions, Civic Groups Scrutinize Amazon’s Proposed Showplace Square Development Site | Nov 15, 2021
Amazon, SF spar over Design District warehouse | March 23, 2022
Supervisors Slap a Moratorium on Parcel Delivery Sites, In an Obvious Shot at Amazon | March 23, 2022
Amazon wants new delivery centers in the Bay Area. Big Labor might stop it. | Feb 21, 2022
Amazon is using San Francisco’s zoning policy to plot a huge expansion in the city. Some locals aren’t happy | Feb 15, 2022
Proposed S.F. Amazon warehouse overshadows potential of neighborhood site | Nov 17, 2021
Transit group walks back its comments opposing transit housing bill | Dec 26, 2019
Unsolved: Hit and Run on Bayview Homeless Woman | Sept 17, 2019
Housing, by any means necessary | Nov 1, 2018
SF Tech Billionaires go to War of Homelessness | Oct 29, 2018
San Francisco election 2018: Board of Supervisors race | Oct 29, 2018
Opponents of Gas Tax Repeal Don Wigs and Heels for Political Bike Ride | Oct 28, 2018
California’s Proposition 10, explained | Oct 22, 2018
Fixing Homelessness and Improving Transit | Oct 19, 2018
Vote yes on Proposition C for a bold new direction on homelessness relief | Oct 2, 2018
First Cannabis Recalls Hit California as Testing Rules Bite Down | Aug 10, 2018
Episode 856: Yes In My Backyard | July 27, 2018
What’s Lurking In California Bud? | July 12, 2018
Housing a defining issue in SF mayor’s race | May 31, 2018
Breed Uses Reddit AMA To Boast Pro-Development Stance | April 6, 2018
California Is Considering a ‘Radical’ Statewide Upzone | Feb 8, 2018
80 Percent of Marijuana Tested At Recent NorCal Conference Is Tainted With Mold | Aug 31, 2017
These coders want to prevent violence with apps | Nov 23, 2016
Tech Group Hopes Its Hackathons Can Help Prevent Police Shootings | July 21, 2016
PACE Roundup: Residential PACE Tops $2 Billion | May 31, 2016
Bits are beating atoms: The Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon shuffle | February 13, 2016
Life After Crowdfunding: Startups That Landed VC Money After Online Campaigns | Nov 18, 2015
Unrelenting New Orleans special education problems alleged in new court filings | Aug 2, 2013
Mobile school system agrees to sweeping changes in suspension policies to settle lawsuit | June 28, 2013
Hospitals, South Carolina sued over child's sex surgery | May 15, 2013
When to Do Surgery on a Child With 'Both' Genitalia | May 13, 2013
The thing about cycles | March 8, 2016
Will Silicon Valley's Unicorn Herd Grow or Shrink in 2016? | January 6, 2016
What Bubble? The Unicorn Boom Has Just Begun | Oct 14, 2015
Cutting Edge: Start-up makes sense of transit data | February 28, 2016
Tricorder-like tech could detect bombs, tumors | November 13, 2015
Andy Rubin’s Playground incubator has closed a $300 million funding round | October 7, 2015
Watch Google's robot 'Spot' play with Andy Rubin's real dog | March 1, 2016
Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it | February 22, 2016
There’s a new patent-free fast charging system for electric buses | July 8, 2016
It's rush hour for urban electric buses |. July 13, 2016
ABB Flash-Charging Electric Bus Route To Open In Geneva, Switzerland | July 26, 2016
As electric cars stall, a move to greener trucks and buses | June 3, 2016
SDG&E kicks off $52.5 million EV charger installation and customer education pilot | May 18, 2016
BMW Beats Tesla in Bid to Supply Los Angeles Police With Electric Cars | June 8, 201
White House unlocks $4.5 billion for electric vehicle infrastructure and announces new EV programs | June 21, 2016
After High-Profile Recalls in California, Marijuana Lab Testing Labs Brace for More Scrutiny | Aug 6, 2018
Market for ethically dope cannabis grows in S.F. | July 25, 2018
San Francisco, it's time to treat the housing shortage like the crisis it is | June 19, 2018
NIMBY Meet YIMBY: Census Bureau Key to Housing Advocacy on Both Sides | May 22, 2018
California's Housing Prices Need to Come Down | March 28, 2018
Can California solve pot’s pesticide problem? | Sept 26, 2017
What’s the Matter with California Cannabis? | Aug 30, 2017
Innovative Google Chrome Extension Makes It Easy To Find Black Businesses | Aug 17, 2016
Support Black Business With This Google Chrome Extension That Helps You Find Comparable Black Retail Sites | Aug 18, 2016
Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him do the Same With AI | Feb 09, 2016
Tuscaloosa City Schools’ new ‘HERE’ campaign targets attendance | July 30, 2014
Why seed ‘extensions’ are becoming the new normal in fundraising | November 7, 2015
Former Therapist Claims Ex-Gay Therapy Worked for Hundreds | July 31, 2013
Federal judge approves Orleans Parish Prison consent decree | June 6, 2013
Parents of Intersex Child Sue Over 'Unnecessary' Surgery | May 14, 2013
Civil Rights Memorial | May 12, 2013
LivingSocial Offers a Cautionary Tale to Today’s Unicorns | November 22, 2015
Saying No to a Cash Buffet in Start-Up World | November 5, 2015
And The Winners Of The 9th Annual Crunchies Are | February 8, 2016
Square's IPO: the beginning of the end of the unicorn-driven tech bubble? | November 14, 2015
BART riders get perks? There’s a catch | March 23, 2016
CES Gadgets from the Past That Went Nowhere | January 4, 2016
Andy Rubin's Playground wants to let anyone make the next big gadget | February 9, 2016
CastAR will return $1M in Kickstarter money and postpone augmented reality glasses shipments | December 16, 2015
Artificial Intelligence Will Have A Heart | February 11, 2016
SEPTA Shows Off Quiet New Electric Bus to Public | July 29, 2016
Hail-Damaged Crops: What Happens Next? | June 28, 2016
UPS unveils updated hybrid electric fleet | May 03, 2016
Los Angeles EV Police Fleet Gets 100 Electric BMWs | June 9, 2016
FHA says it will approve mortgages with energy improvement assessments | July 21, 2016
Greater than the sum: How aggregation is making storage into a software business | June 16, 2016
Renters' Movement Presses Cities For More Housing Development | Aug 2, 2018
What CA is Teaching us About the Impact of Mold | July 20, 2018
Advocates React to London Breed’s Election | June 14, 2018
California Ballot Initiative to Expand Property Tax Breaks for Wealthy Seniors Could Be Another Boon to GOP | May 18, 2018
Urbanism Nonprofit Holding District 10 Supervisor Debate | March 26, 2018
Growing Clean Cannabis to Pass California's New Rules | Sept 20, 2017
Cannabis Safety Testing: Learning from the food analysis industry | June 27, 2017
Why more people now own their home’s solar panels — instead of lease them | June 21, 2016
This new Chrome extension helps you find black-owned businesses | Aug 9, 2016
Why This Electric Bus Startup Is Opening Up Its Patents for Free | June 28, 2016
Benchmark Adds A Sixth General Partner: Scott Belsky | Feb 8, 2016
Homophobia In The Caribbean: Anti-Sodomy Laws And Persecution, Being Gay Is No Fun In The Islands | Aug 9, 2013
Gay rights around the world: the best and worst countries for equality | July 30, 2013
Mississippi sued over for-profit prison where inmates sell leashed rats | May 30, 2013
Couple sues over adopted son's sex-assignment surgery | May 14, 2013
UA Public Relations Student Society of America wins national contest | Dec 31, 2012
VC Bill Gurley on on-demand startups: it’s the “same sh*t” as ’99 | Sep 15, 2015
The (Very Contradictory) Year in Unicorns | December 30, 2015
Legal troubles, market realities threaten Uber's global push | October 5, 2015
Postmates CEO Says He's Raising Money Again In January To Build The 'Anti-Amazon' | November 6, 2015
Stage 3 is where you can style and rent a custom-made dress | December 13, 2015
Former Lilly diabetes exec's glucose sensing smartphone case begins crowdfunding | November 17, 2015
Watch Google's Adorable Robo-Dog Interact With a Real-Life Pooch | March 5, 2016
Real Dog Takes On Robot Dog | March 5, 2016
Electric bus maker Proterra follows Tesla’s lead and open-sources its Fast-Charging patents | June 28, 2016
Fast charging system for electric buses — quicker than filling a tank | July 9, 2016
What does diversity and inclusion mean to the transit industry? Discussions at the APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference addressed the impact of HB2. | May 24th, 2016
Wet-dry cycle drives up salinity and cuts yields | May 2, 2016
A Tesla Co-Founder Is Making Electric Garbage Trucks With Jet Tech, and Why Not | July 11, 2016
Why did the LAPD pick BMW i3 over Tesla Model S for its electric car fleet? | June 15, 2016
Residential PACE Tops $2 Billion: Ygrene lands a $250 million credit facility and expects regular securitization in 2017 | May 31, 2016
Why do so many affordable-housing advocates reject the law of supply and demand? | Sept 18, 2018
Second voluntary cannabis product recall issued in California | July 31, 2018
Legalization Inundates California’s Cannabis Labs | July 18, 2018
How Tech Shaped San Francisco’s Mayor’s Race | June 11, 2018
Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems? | June 1, 2018
SB 827 is part of San Francisco’s housing solution | April 12, 2018
Cities on a Hill? | Feb 16, 2018
Report: Much of the Bay Area’s cannabis is tainted with something | Sept 2, 2017
Tesla Is Playing Catch-Up With China’s BYD in Nearly Every Business Category | August 9, 2016
This digital activist built a Chrome extension to help find black-owned businesses | Jan 12, 2017
Drones Zero In on Wheat, Canola Crops in Canada to Boost Yields | July 28, 2016
Mack To Demo Garbage Truck With Wrightspeed Turbine Plug-In Hybrid Powertrain | June 7, 2016
SF transit system is now using a thing called the ‘Space/Time Engine’ to track commutes | Jan 28, 2016
Here’s What’s Happening on the Internet’s Most Racist Forums | Aug 5, 2013
Mississippi's Comeback Kids | July 8, 2013
Feds, inmate lawyers say new Orleans Parish jail design falls short | May 23, 2013
A new bill seeks to kill anonymous ‘burner’ phones by requiring registration | Mar 25, 2016
New Establishment List 2015 | October 2015
Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill | October 19, 2015
16 tips and tricks for managing everyday work and life, from our Geeks of the Week | December 30, 2015
FDA clears Intelesens's zensor, a wearable vitals monitor | October 12, 2015
8 Cool Technologies to Look Forward to After Virtual Reality | March 29, 2016
Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing | February 22, 2016
Alphabet Shakes Up Its Robotics Division | January 16, 2016
Proterra unveils a massive new 330 kWh battery pack for its Catalyst XR electric bus | May 18, 2016
Tesla cofounder plays Frankenstein with hybrid electric garbage truck | June 12, 2016
The battery miracle will transform both transportation and power generation | June 17, 2016
Mack To Demo Garbage Truck With Wrightspeed Turbine Plug-In Hybrid Powertrain | June 7, 2016
Wisconsin DOT using recycled materials in road construction | July 13, 2016
The new EV playbook: How utilities can gain from the coming boom in electric vehicles | June 27, 2016