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Posted Allegations Of Racial Profiling Raised During Battery Trial to News
On September 2nd, 2009 Tisha Harvey lived a community member's worst nightmare. On her way to pick up her daughter in the city's Visitacion...
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Posted ShotSpotter Skepticism Remains: Magic Bullet Or Waste Of Dough? to The Alley
In July of 2009, we took a look at the ShotSpotter, a piece of law enforcement technology which aids in the investigation of violent...
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Posted Burger King, Subway In Violation Of SF's Composting Laws to The Alley
Readers may remember when the Board of Supervisors, with the support of Gavin Newsom, voted into law one of the country's most comprehensive mandatory...
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Posted Banana Republic's Sketchy Hiring Policies to The Alley
Tis' the season for shady hiring policies. CBS5's Joe Vasquez recently ran an interesting story on how Banana Republic's flagship store on Grant Avenue hired...
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Posted The Salvation Army: Good Works, Questionable Politics to The Alley
So you're in the Salvation Army on the corner of Valencia and 26th, and you're browsing for that perfectly grotesque wool-knit sweater, the one...
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Posted How Smart Are PG&E's Proposed "Smart Meters"? to The Alley
On Tuesday October 27th, 2009, the the Obama administration announced 100 federal grants to support smart grid projects around the country. The stimulus funds...
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Posted Evidence From Attacks On Transgender Women Sat On Shelf While Crimes Continued to The Alley
On September 10th, 2007, a transgender prostitute working in the Tenderloin was found naked and left for dead on a street across town. Two weeks...
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Posted Muni Says Friday's J-Church Armed Robbery Caught On Tape, But Will We Ever See The Footage? to The Alley
On Friday, SFist had the details first (thanks to the quick fingered twittering of TimOfLegend.) about an incident early Friday morning in which an unnamed...
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Posted BART's $26M In The Hole, Better Give Their Board A Raise? to The Alley
It hasn't been that long since the impending BART strike threatened to overlap with the Labor Day closing of the Bridge of Doom, causing a...
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Posted What Are Your SF Parking Tips, Tricks? to The Alley
They call parking in San Francisco a game of cat and mouse. They forget that with a little ingenuity, Jerry kicked Tom's ass on the...
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Posted Is Jaws Waiting To Chomp On Ocean Beach Surfers? to The Alley
The "fact" that great white sharks reside mostly in deep waters has been the only thing that has allowed beach denizens to gradually reunite with...
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Posted Bike Plan Injunction Could (Finally) Disappear Today to The Alley
After three long years of waiting, bikers and sustainable transportation enthusiasts will finally have their day in court. A hearing is scheduled for this morning...
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Posted Where Were You When They Shut Down Pirate Cat Radio? to The Alley
Chances are, when you've tired of your 19th straight listen to Black Eyed Pea's latest jam, or can no longer stand the banal, pre-fabricated opinions...
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Posted 67,600 Gallon Treasure Island Sewage Spill Dissipating "naturally" Into Bay to The Alley
Treasure Island has become a little more soiled after a sewage line broke on the island Saturday, spewing 67,600 gallons of waste water across the...
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Posted EDD Website Security Flaw Puts SF's 50+K Unemployed At Risk to The Alley
As if the unemployed living in a state with the fourth highest unemployment rate need another worry, a recent security flaw in the CalJobs website...
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Posted TransLink For SFPD, Fixing Cameras Components Of Plans To Protect Muni Riders to News
In the wake of even more violence on Muni last weekend this time, on the 49, the SFPD and SFMTA are getting even more pressure...
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Posted Crimes On Muni Have Folks Asking Where Cameras, Police Are to News
First there was the violent and unprovoked stabbing of 11-year-old Hatim Mansori earlier this September. Then, the other day, there was the purported Norteno attack...
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Posted School Systems: Sketchy Spending All Over to The Alley
SFUSD: Charge! An analysis of the San Francisco school district's financial records by the Chronicle reveals more bad news about the district's continuing mismanagement of...
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Posted Video: Folsom Street Fair 2009 Across The Internet to Culture/Entertainment
Cock rings, naked (spank inducing) Twister, nipple tweaking, queues outside of stocks, rooftop ejaculation. No, it's not the latest Stockroom catalog, it's the 2009 Folsom...
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Posted Market Street Traffic Closures Has This Reporter Asking "What About Jerk Cyclists?" to The Alley
Tomorrow marks the start of ">San Francisco's six week pilot program aimed at reducing eastbound traffic on Market Street. The plan will force private...
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Posted What Is This, 1974? RadioShack Announces New Market Street Store to The Alley
We received the following email this morning from that wily, little corporation who continues to escape the death throes of the recession at every...
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Posted Park Spending Increases Spurred By Ken Burns Doc? to The Alley
An independent panel urges congress to increase National Park spending by at least $700 million over the next seven years just days before a documentary...
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Posted Raiders Game Black Out Means You Need To Find Something Else To Do On Sunday to The Alley
To crassly bastardize Gil Scott-Heron, but, Sunday's Oakland Raiders game against the Denver Broncos will not be televised. At least, not locally. Under the NFL's...
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Posted Faith In Weather Reports Shattered, We Still Offer You This Weekend's Forecast to The Alley
San Franciscans have endured record high temperatures this last week. Allow me to rephrase. San Franciscans have endured cranking their space heaters up to record...
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Posted Celebration Planned For End Of Iranian Freedom Hunger Strike to The Alley
Photos from an earlier rally for Khourosh Zaim by Steve Rhodes "Super size me," might have been the first words on activist Turaj Zaim lips...
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Posted Heat Wave Has SF Residents Taking Shelter, Fretting Over Wardrobe to The Alley
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory alert for the entire San Francisco Bay area and Santa Cruz County up through Tuesday...
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Posted Results Of Second Look At de la Plaza Case Unsatisfying To Many to The Alley
The Chronicle and ABC7 are reporting that a team of Los Angeles investigators brought in to assist with the investigation of Hugues de la Plaza's...