San Francisco’s sinking sidewalks: Is climate change to blame?

A large crack winds its way up a sidewalk along China Basin Street in Mission Bay on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (Kevin N. Hume/The Examiner)
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SF deputy faces criminal charges over gun threats

Police say cop threatened to shoot people at party

San Francisco State University closed its campus on Tuesday morning. (Courtesy photo)

SF State police detain one in connection with threat that closed campus

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Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, pictured with Rose Pak in 2014, says the late Chinatown activist was “helping to guide the community away from the divisions, politically.”

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    Niners quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo led a late-game comeback against the Packers, but San Francisco lost, 30-28, on a late field goal. (Courtesy of San Francisco 49ers)

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      Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers proved to be too much for the Niners in a Week 3 loss to Green Bay. It was San Francisco’s home opener for the 2021 season. (Courtesy of the San Francisco 49ers.)

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            For years, Facebook employees have identified serious harms and proposed potential fixes. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, pictured in 2019, and COO Sheryl Sandberg have rejected the remedies, causing whisteblowers to multiply. (Eric Thayer/New York Times)

            Facebook’s problems at the top: Social media giant is not listening to whistleblowers

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              Amazon warehouse workers’ productivity is carefully tracked through continual electronic surveillance, to determine work rates, error rates and even “time off tasks” such as going to the bathroom. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

              Protecting Amazon workers: The relevance of AB 701 for the Bay Area and beyond

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                At 5 p.m. Oct. 24, the San Francisco International Arts Festival features CHELLE! and Friends, a concert combining jazz, funk, soul, Creole, Cajun, gospel, Caribbean, African, Zydeco, rock and rhythms of Mardi Gras Indians, led by Oakland’s “Queen of New Orleans Music” Michelle Jacques. (Courtesy photo)

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