There are polls about who is winning in the race to become the next mayor of San Francisco, but there is also another yardstick by which we can measure the contestants: online friends.
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Backed-up sewers, downed trees, potholes, graffiti — once these were problems you had to call, e-mail or Tweet The City about. But all those options are soooo 2010. Now you can just Facebook them. Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that San Francisco is launching a Facebook app that will allow residents to report basic service problems by Facebook.
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Britney Spears has boldly promised San Francisco a “morning to remember.”
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Egypt is the most populous Arab nation and leads the Arab world in cultural innovation, hosting a thriving pop music scene and popular movie studios. They set the tone politically for many of their neighbors, boasting (relatively) close ties with Israel and the US while still maintaining good relations with the rest of their Arab neighbors. And they are the center of Sunni Islam hosting the heart of Sunni teaching, Al-Azhar University, in Cairo.
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Much has been made of the fact that Egypt shut down both the internet and the mobile phone networks to try and quell widespread protests. While the internet is still down in the country mobile phones are back up and operating.
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Kudos to Tim Carney, Senior Examiner Political Columnist, for invoking George Washington’s warning against “entangling alliances” in a piece on whether the recent events in Egypt are good for the US.
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In tonight’s State of the Union speech, President Obama will emphasize how government should cut down on growth-hindering regulations. Securities regulations should certainly be on that list.
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District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener took to Facebook this weekend to focus on creating jobs and took clear policy stances.“We need to stop just talking about job creation and actually do it,” Wiener wrote in the post.Wiener referred to recently elected Gov. Jerry Brown’s reaching out to tech companies for ideas to boost jobs.
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Root Music founder J Sider sits on a beanbag chair and sips a fruit smoothie from the kitchen in the Howard Street loft of his technology startup. He explains how the three-person startup, which began in his apartment last year, just got $2.3 million in venture capital funding.
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