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The Tenderloin: A People’s History of San Francisco’s Most Notorious Neighborhood
"Any city that doesn't have a Tenderloin isn't a city at all" - Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Few San ...
SF nonprofits to stop providing drug paraphernalia without treatment under new city policy
There's a major policy shift in San Francisco. Nonprofits won't be allowed to give out harm reduction kits with syringes and ...
‘We’ve Lost Our Way’: San Francisco Rethinks Drug Paraphernalia Handouts
Daniel Lurie, the city’s new mayor, is scaling back a program that gives away clean foil, pipes and plastic straws for ...
San Francisco ties clean needle distribution for drug users to treatment, counseling
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city's drug overdose crisis requires a bolder approach to getting illicit drug ...
The Safeway on Market Street hides a stubborn San Francisco mystery
The world’s rarest creature died in 2012. His name was Lonesome George, and he was the last Pinta Island tortoise, a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise. By most estimates, he was 100 years old when he ...
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Forty arrests, zero charges: S.F. police raid was a dud. But not on social media.
Questions remain about both the efficacy and legality of an SFPD raid in which 40 people were arrested but none have yet been ...