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The Spring Housing Market Just Lost More Than 200,000 New Listings
The spring housing market is shaping up to be the leanest and most competitive ever.
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Ample Is Trying to Make Battery Swapping for EVs a Reality, Starting With Uber Drivers in the Bay Area
Ample has opened its first electric vehicle battery swap stations — in the San Francisco Bay Area. Uber drivers are their first customers.
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This 23-Year-Old Uber Employee Used Her Stuck-At-Home Pandemic Time to Create Vegan ‘Eggs' — Now She's Turning It Into a Business
Uber employee and recent Stanford grad Grace O’Brien used the free time she had due to the Covid-19 pandemic to create Peggs, a plant-based egg substitute.
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Rebound: Keeping Lemonade Dreams From Turning Sour
As the raging pandemic continued to devastate Black-owned businesses, Vicktor Stevenson fought to protect his burgeoning lemonade empire by doubling down with a new brick and mortar location in Oakland, Calif. – but after losing the commercial space, Stevenson realized that in order to keep his business going, he’d need to pivot by expanding his company in unexpected ways.
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Rebound: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
Vicktor Stevenson founded Gourmonade in 2018. Now, the pandemic is putting the squeeze on his gourmet lemonade business. In part one of our “Rebound” series, we join Vicktor and his family in the Gourmonade kitchen to see how they’re pivoting the business to stay afloat.
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Beat Poet, Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101
Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco at age 101
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139-Year-Old House Rolls to New San Francisco Address
After 139 years at 807 Franklin St. in San Francisco, a two-story Victorian house has a new address.
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Millionaire Who Bought a Home at 26 Regrets Paying Off His Mortgage Early: ‘This Is the Biggest Downside No One Tells You'
If you’re trying to pay off your mortgage early, good for you. I bought my first home at 26 and did it in 12 years. But here’s the biggest downside no one tells you.
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44 Charged, Half-Ton of Meth Seized in California Operation
A massive crackdown on drug trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area has ended with dozens of people being indicted and the seizure of more than a half-ton of methamphetamine, federal authorities announced Thursday. “Operation Burnt Orange” involved four separate investigations over more than 1 1/2 years and numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. With the help of…
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Remember, Racism Isn't Just Black And White. Anti Asian Racism Is On the Rise in the Pandemic Era
From the streets of San Francisco to New York’s iconic Chinatown district there’s been a dramatic surge in the reported cases of hate crimes directed against members of the Asian American community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Missing Children Found After Father's Car Reported Stolen
UPDATE: San Francisco police confirmed just after 1 a.m. Sunday that the children have been found in the city’s Bayview District.
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Embattled Savings App Beam Reaches Tentative Settlement With FTC
Savings app Beam, the subject of a CNBC investigation after customers couldn’t get their money out, has reached a tentative settlement with the FTC.
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San Francisco Businesses Teeter on the Brink After a Year of Lockdowns, Fires and Other Hurdles
During the first few weeks of 2021, persistently high virus counts and a slow vaccine rollout have further tested the endurance of San Francisco businesses.
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San Francisco to Strip Washington, Lincoln From School Names
The San Francisco school board has voted to remove the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from public schools after officials deemed them and other prominent figures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, unworthy of the honor.
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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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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.