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San Francisco public school parents hate the school assignment lottery.
They anticipate hating its replacement even more.
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Mayor Daniel Lurie's political arguments have grown Orwellian and his math isn't mathing.
But it's hard to foresee a world where voters don't, once again, give him all he asks for.
Latest column from @esksf
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San Francisco police officers arrested a woman suspected of striking & killing a man in the Tenderloin early Sunday morning.
SFPD said it tracked the woman's vehicle to Treasure Island, where she had already been pulled over by CHP for a traffic violation.
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Hundreds filled the church of Saint Ignatius Friday, as friends and family mourned retired SFPD deputy chief Ann Mannix and her daughter Katie as kind people "torn from us in a brutal, horrible act of violence."
via @frankieduryea
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San Francisco's civic and political scene is a natural breeding ground for operatives at the world's leading AI giants.
Some are more obvious than others — most recently:
A former spokesman for the embattled former supervisor candidate Manny Yekutiel.
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San Francisco's civic and political scene is a natural breeding ground for operatives at the world's leading AI giants.
Some are more obvious than others — most recently:
A former spokesman for the embattled former supervisor candidate Manny Yekutiel.
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Scott Wiener leads Connie Chan in all published polls, mostly within the margin of error.
Chan, however, tends to outperform her poll numbers at the ballot box because a key group of her supporters is often missing from polls.
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The person who drove their car into the Muni Metro tunnel on Saturday, shutting down service, had abandoned the car inside the tunnel, SFPD said.
The dept. is investigating the incident as a hit and run, it said.
Service resumed Sunday morning.
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Muni train service is suspended between Church and Embarcadero in both directions after a car drove into the tunnel at Embarcadero on Saturday.
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We asked congressional candidates Connie Chan and Scott Wiener whether they support expanding work visas and pathways to green cards.
Here are their answers:
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Tom Steyer endorsed Scott Wiener for Pelosi’s House seat, while former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich endorsed Connie Chan.
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PTAs in San Francisco Unified School District have unequal funding. Some schools don't have a PTA at all.
How will candidates bridge the gaps between them?
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