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Grab Your Umbrella: Bay Area Weather About to Get Dramatic
Just when you thought you could trust that endless stretch of mild, do-nothing skies, Mother Nature is apparently ready...
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Try to Report a Safety Hazard at a SF Nightclub, Get Shoved Into a Wall
Here's a fun sequence of events: You go to a nightclub. You notice debris on the dance floor that could hurt someone. Yo...
·SoMa
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One Thing SF Still Gets Right: The View
Say what you will about San Francisco — the budget deficits, the bureaucratic bloat, the transit delays that make you qu...
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Nature Doesn't Care About Your Trail Plans
If you've been hitting the Bay Area trails lately — and honestly, with weather like this, you should be — here's your fr...
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Pain at the Pump: When 'Not Bad' Means Nearly Seven Bucks a Gallon
You know things have gotten absurd when Bay Area drivers are genuinely relieved to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of...
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The Earth Moved at 1:42 AM — Here's What We Know
If you bolted upright in bed around 1:42 AM wondering if that was a dream or actual tectonic activity — no, you weren't...
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The Inner Richmond Hum: Construction, Conspiracy, or Just San Francisco Being San Francisco?
Something strange is happening near Park Presidio, and no, it's not just the fog rolling in. Residents in the Inner Ric...
·Inner Richmond
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Garbage Truck Goes Up in Flames on Divisadero, Because of Course It Does
If you were trying to get through the Divisadero and Ellis intersection today, you weren't. A garbage truck caught fire,...
·Western Addition
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Kezar Pub Allegedly Has a Camera in the Men's Room — And Yes, That's as Bad as It Sounds
Here's a sentence we didn't expect to write today: a popular Haight-Ashbury bar allegedly has a camera recording inside...
·Haight-Ashbury
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Kaiser's Gig-ified Therapy Plan Is What Happens When Healthcare Meets Silicon Valley Brain
Kaiser Permanente, the healthcare giant that already struggles to get its mental health patients seen in a timely manner...
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Rotavirus Is Surging in Bay Area Wastewater — Here's What You Need to Know
Wastewater monitoring across Northern California is lighting up with rotavirus, a highly contagious gastrointestinal vir...
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A Dead Bat in Fremont Just Tested Positive for Rabies — Here's What You Need to Know
A dead bat discovered at a Fremont home has tested positive for rabies, and Alameda County health officials are urging a...
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Mother Duck Crashes Pilates Class, Demands Help — And Honestly, Fair Enough
## A Feathered Interruption With a Happy Ending Look, we spend a lot of time on this site talking about government inef...
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The Best Government Program Is One That Just Gets You Outside
Here's something we don't say often at The Dissent: a government program that actually makes sense. The "Healthy Parks...
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Want to Actually Fix San Francisco? Grab a Trash Bag and Hit Clement Street
Here's a radical concept for you: instead of waiting for City Hall to allocate another $300 million to a "street beautif...
·Richmond District
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Tahoe Avalanche Report Raises Hard Questions About Personal Responsibility in the Backcountry
An investigation into the deadliest avalanche in California history — the one that struck near Lake Tahoe — has surfaced...
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The Richmond District's Eternal Cycle: New Paint, Same Problems
There's a saying in the Richmond District that everything new is old again — and if you've been paying attention, it's h...
·Richmond District
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A 4.6 Quake Hit the Bay Area and We Barely Looked Up From Our Phones
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake rattled the Bay Area early Thursday morning, centered in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Buildings...
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Justice Served: Mission Woman Convicted of Gruesome Roommate Murder
A San Francisco jury has convicted Mission District resident Lisa Gonzales of murdering and dismembering her roommate, M...
·Mission District
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Glide's Barbershop Gambit: Can Dignity Cut Through SF's Overdose Crisis?
San Francisco has spent *billions* trying to address its overlapping crises of homelessness, addiction, and public safet...
·Tenderloin
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Peter Duesberg Is Dead, and So Is His Dangerous Legacy — Or It Should Be
Peter Duesberg, the UC Berkeley molecular biologist who spent decades insisting that HIV didn't cause AIDS, is dead. We'...
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Your Weekend Plans Just Got Complicated: SF's Protest Calendar Is Packed
If you were planning a leisurely stroll through downtown San Francisco next weekend, maybe recalibrate your expectations...
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SFPD Makes Murder Arrest After SoMa Shooting
A 19-year-old man is behind bars facing murder charges after a fatal shooting at the corner of 3rd and Harrison Streets...
·SoMa
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Another Life Lost in Sunnydale: City Can't Keep Ignoring This
A 24-year-old man named Tertron Johnson is dead after a shooting in the Sunnydale neighborhood, and if you're waiting fo...
·Sunnydale