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29 Oct 2021

The Many Similarities Between San Francisco and New York City

If you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time in San Francisco, CA, and New York City, NY, you may have noticed a large amount of eerie similarities. What makes these two cities, about as far away from each other as they could get in the contiguous United States, so

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26 Oct 2021

Children Ages 5 to 11 Could Start Getting COVID-19 Vaccinations Next Week

It looks like kids as young as 5 years old could start getting COVID-19 vaccinations as early as next week.  The Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday voted 17-0 to recommend emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The decision was based on a smaller,

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19 Oct 2021

Walmart Gives Gov. Greg Abbott $10,000 Five Days After Abortion Ban

Walmart is the gift that keeps on giving…reasons not to shop there.  Look, squirrel! The discount retail behemoth would like you to turn your attention to their super early Black Friday sales, renewed commitment to American jobs, stock performance…anything to keep conscious consumers from pulling back the curtain on today’s

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14 Oct 2021

Kyrie Irving Is Not Like Muhammad Ali, He’s Just Delusional

The 7 xNBA all-star, 1 time NBA Champion, and fresh new symbol for the anti-vaxxer movement, is Kyrie Irving.  Kyrie has caused quite a bit of controversy lately by refusing to get vaccinated. Kyrie plays in Brooklyn, which is in New York, which has a vaccine mandate.   Meaning Kyrie will

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08 Oct 2021

COVID Relief Program Expanded for Immigrant Families Who Can’t Get Other Funds

San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton joined several community organizations Wednesday to distribute funding to immigrant families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic who can’t qualify for public assistance programs because of their citizenship status. Funding through the city’s Family Relief Fund was created by Walton back in March 2020, at the

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06 Oct 2021

2,200+ Kaiser Employees on Unpaid Leave for Not Getting Vaxxed

By Keith Burbank Oakland-based health care provider Kaiser Permanente had just over 2,200 employees on unpaid administrative leave as of Monday because they were not vaccinated from COVID-19, Kaiser officials said. The company told its employees Aug. 2 that they would have to be vaccinated. Seventy-eight percent of employees and

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05 Oct 2021

Facebook Whistleblower Claims Renew Calls for Section 230 Repeal. But Who Benefits?

Facebook is firmly planted in the hot seat this week, which, of course, means calls to repeal Section 230 are again at a fever pitch. But, there’s a lot of confusion over what and who the policy actually protects, and who stands to gain and lose in its potential reform.

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04 Oct 2021

UCSF Professor Wins Nobel Prize for Work on Pain Sensation

A physiology professor from University of California, San Francisco has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for work on pain sensation. David Julius is professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UC San Francisco and the Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine. Juluis shares the award

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