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Budget Delay Impacts Medi-Cal
It’s about to get a lot tougher for hundreds of struggling health clinics that rely on Medi-Cal reimbursement to help keep the lights on. The state’s seven week delay in approving a budget means...
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5 Arrested In San Francisco Pepper Spray Robberies
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — San Francisco police on Saturday arrested five people suspected in a series of pepper-spray robberies last week, a police sergeant said Monday. The group is believed to be...
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San Francisco Officials Object To Cigarette Ads Featuring Haight
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials are objecting to cigarette ads featuring the city’s iconic Haight neighborhood. City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Public Health Director Mitch Katz sent a...
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San Francisco Recycling Center To Close; Homeless Advocates Cry Foul
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Commission approved a controversial plan to close a recycling center on the edge of Golden Gate Park. The center would then be replaced by a...
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SFPD To Begin Enforcing Sit-Lie Ordinance In February
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — San Francisco’s new sit-lie ordinance became effective on Friday, but it will not be enforced until February when officers have been properly trained on it, police said. The...
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Teen Says He Was Abducted From San Francisco Haight District
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A 14-year-old San Francisco boy told police he was kidnapped from the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for several hours Wednesday night by four men in a van, then robbed and...
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Bay Area Charities Find Strength Through Mergers
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/AP)- Taking a page of the corporate world, non-profits are using mergers to help more people. For example, in San Francisco, The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic and Walden House have...
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Fatal San Francisco Beating Suspect To Argue Self-Defense
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — A 23-year-old Utah man accused of beating a San Francisco man to death with a skateboard on Christmas Day is due back in court on murder charges next week in a case his attorney...
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Haight-Ashbury Merchants See Results From Sit-Lie Ordinance
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco’s controversial sit-lie ordinance appears to be working, even before it’s formally being enforced. Voters passed Proposition L, more commonly referred to as San...
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Customer Shot By Haight Store Owner In Dispute Over Chihuahua
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5/BCN) — The owner of a corner market in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood shot and critically wounded a customer Tuesday, apparently in a dispute about the customer...
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San Francisco Supervisors Hold Hearing on Eviction Of Recycling Center
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department is evicting the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council Recycling Center from Golden Gate Park, and the flap over the eviction notice...
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New Whole Foods Market Opens In SF Haight-Ashbury
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – A long-awaited Whole Foods Market officially opened in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood Wednesday. The 21,000-square-foot store next to Golden Gate Park was scheduled...
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SF Clerk Pleads Not Guilty To Chihuahua Dispute Shooting
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – An employee at a market in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to charges that he shot a customer after an argument over a dog last...
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San Francisco Police Begin Enforcing Sit/Lie Law
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) – San Francisco police officers have started enforcing the city’s new ban on sitting and lying on the sidewalk. In November, voters approved the sit/lie law, which makes it illegal...
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Man To Stand Trial In Fatal San Francisco Skateboard Attack
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – A Utah man on Wednesday was ordered to stand trial for allegedly beating a man to death with a skateboard in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood on Christmas Day—a case...
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Few Changes After SF Sit-Lie Enforcement Begins
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco police quietly began enforcing the city’s new sit-lie ordinance last week, although no citations have been issued yet, a police spokesman said Thursday. The...
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San Francisco Sit-Lie Ordinance Ineffective, Police Brass Told
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco’s controversial sit-lie ordinance has been mostly ineffective in preventing transients from loitering in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, a police...
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Closer Look: San Francisco Sit-Lie Law Effective?
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) – San Francisco’s Sit-Lie law prohibits people from sitting or lying on any public sidewalk or street in the City. Enforcement of the law began in March, after it was passed by...
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Muni Bus Jumps Sidewalk, Hits Car On SF’s Haight Street
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A San Francisco Municipal Railway bus struck a vehicle in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood Thursday morning. The crash was reported about 7:45 a.m. near Masonic...
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Neighborhood Guide: Haight Ashbury
Explore one of San Francisco’s most iconic neighborhoods: the legendary Haight Ashbury. Haighteration editor Andrew Dudley offers this insider’s guide to his favorite Haight haunts. Sip, shop, snack...
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