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Oct. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Rents and Politics in San Francisco

Scot is keeping up-to-date on the politics of the rental crisis in San Francisco.  Here’s an op-ed by State Senator…
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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Castro widens its sidewalks – 6

We’ve been following the progress on San Francisco’s Castro Street as they widen the sidewalks – part of an overall…
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Sep. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Taxi Crash: The Impact of Uber in San Francisco

Jimbo references this article in The Atlantic in a post below – worthy of bringing to the foreground: After Uber, San…
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Sep. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Black Hole in the "Cool Gray City of Love"

Gary Kamiya, a cofounder of Salon and long-time resident of San Francisco, has collected his essays – love letters, really…
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Sep. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Berkeley Bugle: Mapping unused parking

New Tool Maps Bay Area’s Expensive, Unused Parking. Oakland-based non-profit TransForm wants to cut down this pricey — but often…
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

By comparison: If you think rents in Vancouver are high …

Try San Francisco. From Curbed: … everything is compressed into one miniature 372-square-foot space, and there’s no actual kitchen, just…
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Sep. 04, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Coffee in the Castro

Scot, further to the post below on the Castro, picked this up in Streetsblog SF: Personal Garages Become Cafes in…
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Sep. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Castro widens its sidewalks – 5

The last time friends sent pictures of the widening sidewalks on Castro Street in San Francisco, it was late July.  A month later I had a chance…
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Aug. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Diary: Only in San Francisco Dept.

Dianna, our Vanouver diarist – because she too can’t make up stuff this good – sends this piece clipped from Leah Garchik’s…
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Aug. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

What I did on my San Francisco vacation

I drank coffee. Directed by a friendly barista to the “best coffee in SF,” we found ourselves a few blocks…
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Aug. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: San Francisco Gentrification Quiz from 1985

From CityLab: The San Francisco Chronicle ran a tongue-in-cheek quiz allowing readers to see if their neighborhood had turned “upscale.” The…
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Jul. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

Castro widens its sidewalks – 4

The last time we checked in on the widening of  sidewalks of Castro Street in San Francisco – June 5-10 – they looked…
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Jul. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Affordable Housing in San Francisco

Ray Spaxman passes on this piece from dezeen: Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman and San Francisco architect Jenny Chapman have installed a…
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Jun. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Castro widens its sidewalks – 3

The latest update on the widening of  sidewalks on Castro Street in San Francisco: .…

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