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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco authorities have arrested a man they say may be connected to a series of arson fires in the city's Castro and Noe Valley neighborhoods. The suspect is a man convicted last year in the 2011 death of a sexual partner who was strangled and then burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say they took David Munoz Diaz into custody about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday outside his home on 18th Street near Noe Street. A source close to the investigation said the arrest came after investigators obtained video evidence from the scene of a recent arson fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10413163\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Diaz.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10413163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Diaz.gif\" alt=\"David Munoz Diaz, suspect in a recent San Francisco arson fire. \" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Diaz.gif 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Diaz-32x32.gif 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Munoz Diaz, suspect in a recent San Francisco arson fire. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Public Defender)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diaz is being held at San Francisco County Jail facing three felony charges, including first-degree arson, possession of arson materials and burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Grace Gatpandan, an SFPD spokeswoman, said those charges stem from a fire near Diaz's home early last Saturday morning. She said investigators are “exploring the possibility” Diaz is linked to other fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of fires, including three last weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-fires-in-San-Francisco-s-Castro-may-link-to-6025226.php\" target=\"_blank\">prompted an investigation\u003c/a> by San Francisco's arson task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't Diaz's first encounter with San Francisco law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last August, a Superior Court jury \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2014/08/man-acquitted-of-murder-in-park-death/\" target=\"_blank\">convicted him\u003c/a> of involuntary manslaughter in the June 2011 death of a sexual partner in Buena Vista Park. Prosecutors said Diaz set the victim's body on fire after strangling him and had sought a conviction on a charge of first-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz's attorney argued the victim, 23-year-old Freddy Roberto Canul-Arguello, asked to be choked during a sexual encounter. Diaz reluctantly agreed, said Deputy Public Defender Alex Lilien, and accidentally asphyxiated him. Canul-Arguello's body was burned, the defense said, when Diaz lit the contents of a recycling bin to signal for help. Diaz also reportedly called 911 and pulled a nearby fire alarm box before leaving the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz, who had been jailed since his arrest in 2011, was released from custody last September. Two months later, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=70175\" target=\"_blank\"> a judge sentenced Diaz\u003c/a> to four years and eight months in state prison -- but he remained free because of time served and good-conduct credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender's spokeswoman Tamara Aparton said Thursday the office expects to represent Diaz in the new case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener, who represents the area where the recent arson fires took place, said he was happy to hear that someone was in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The arsons that have been happening in the Castro in the last few months have been very scary,\" Wiener said. \"I hope that they got the right person,\" Wiener said. \"I hope that these arsons stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three San Francisco government departments and the local office for a state agency are scrambling to hire staff to keep up with the city’s steady increase in construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, several thousand buildings have been put up or substantially renovated throughout the city, leading San Francisco’s Planning Department, Department of Building Inspection and Fire Department along with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to fill positions, add jobs and recruit talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere is busier than the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Building Inspection\u003c/a>. In the 2012-13 fiscal year, the 12 months through June 30, 2013, the agency issued a record 61,000 permits for projects that ranged from new housing and office developments to plumbing and electrical upgrades. That number jumped to 65,000 in 2013-14 and is expected to hit 80,000 for the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a far cry from how things looked during the economic downturn when construction growth dropped in San Francisco and DBI laid off 30 percent of its staff then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economic turnaround began, the agency started restaffing and that process continues to accelerate. The department has brought on nearly 50 people in the last six months, according to DBI spokesman, William Strawn. The agency plans to hire about 20 more inspectors, engineers, clerks and IT workers between now and the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Building Codes Fuel Demand for Inspectors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco happens to be in one of the world’s highest at-risk seismic zones,” Strawn says. “Our building codes are a whole lot more strict than just about any place else in the world. We keep adding people because the demand for these building projects, especially over the last couple of years, has been pretty intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There's a lot of building happening, and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe.'\u003ccite>Supervisor London Breed\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Part of that uptick stems from the increased number of big multimillion-dollar projects in the city, including massive residential and office towers downtown. There were nearly 60 major projects in the city several years ago, city officials say, and more than 250 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with prompting a need for more extensive inspections, those large projects are changing San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DBI needs to get permission from several of the city's departments to make staffing changes. Funds to pay for the added positions will come from the fees it charges construction companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in building permits also has prompted San Francisco’s fire marshal to ask for more staff to focus on preventing blazes at construction sites. Assistant Deputy Chief Michie Wong says she wants to add 12 people to handle inspections, review fire safety plans that construction crews develop before they build and conduct arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspectors and investigators who currently work in that part of the Fire Department were the central players in handling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">the aftermath of two major construction fires in San Francisco this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze in the city’s Mission Bay neighborhood last March prompted the city to implement stricter safety rules governing construction work. That fire and another at the old Renoir Hotel in the Mid-Market area in August led to citations against contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the new inspectors Wong wants would specifically deal with high-rise developments. Some of the money to pay for those new employees would come from permit fees the Fire Department receives, and some would come from the department’s budget, Wong said. Chief Joanne Hayes-White will consider a request for funding that staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning Department Also Staffs Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the city agency that helps to shape growth and development in San Francisco recently added dozens of staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Planning Department\u003c/a> has been increasing its workforce incrementally over the past few years, according to Gina Simi, the agency’s spokeswoman. The agency added three dozen positions over the last year and a half and plans to unveil its staffing proposal for the upcoming budget cycle at a Planning Commission meeting on Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Division of Occupational Safety and Health\u003c/a> is also actively recruiting inspectors in San Francisco, according to Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Julia Bernstein. The agency is trying to fill a number of vacant positions in the region and throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2014/2014-48.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA announced in late May that it was targeting Bay Area construction sites to make sure they complied with state safety rules\u003c/a>. In fact, the agency launched investigations into several of the contractors involved in the Mission Bay and Renoir Hotel fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the local staffing discussions for DBI and the Planning and Fire departments will take place at City Hall in the coming months. Mayor Ed Lee's administration and the Board of Supervisors are set to start hammering out a spending plan in March. The Board of Supervisor’s Budget and Finance Committee is expected to initiate hearings then on how much to fund each city department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president of the Board of Supervisors is receptive to the idea of adding staff to handle San Francisco’s construction boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of building happening and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe,” said Supervisor London Breed, elected last week to lead the board.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Building Codes Fuel Demand for Inspectors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco happens to be in one of the world’s highest at-risk seismic zones,” Strawn says. “Our building codes are a whole lot more strict than just about any place else in the world. We keep adding people because the demand for these building projects, especially over the last couple of years, has been pretty intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There's a lot of building happening, and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe.'\u003ccite>Supervisor London Breed\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Part of that uptick stems from the increased number of big multimillion-dollar projects in the city, including massive residential and office towers downtown. There were nearly 60 major projects in the city several years ago, city officials say, and more than 250 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with prompting a need for more extensive inspections, those large projects are changing San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DBI needs to get permission from several of the city's departments to make staffing changes. Funds to pay for the added positions will come from the fees it charges construction companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in building permits also has prompted San Francisco’s fire marshal to ask for more staff to focus on preventing blazes at construction sites. Assistant Deputy Chief Michie Wong says she wants to add 12 people to handle inspections, review fire safety plans that construction crews develop before they build and conduct arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspectors and investigators who currently work in that part of the Fire Department were the central players in handling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">the aftermath of two major construction fires in San Francisco this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze in the city’s Mission Bay neighborhood last March prompted the city to implement stricter safety rules governing construction work. That fire and another at the old Renoir Hotel in the Mid-Market area in August led to citations against contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the new inspectors Wong wants would specifically deal with high-rise developments. Some of the money to pay for those new employees would come from permit fees the Fire Department receives, and some would come from the department’s budget, Wong said. Chief Joanne Hayes-White will consider a request for funding that staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning Department Also Staffs Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the city agency that helps to shape growth and development in San Francisco recently added dozens of staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Planning Department\u003c/a> has been increasing its workforce incrementally over the past few years, according to Gina Simi, the agency’s spokeswoman. The agency added three dozen positions over the last year and a half and plans to unveil its staffing proposal for the upcoming budget cycle at a Planning Commission meeting on Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Division of Occupational Safety and Health\u003c/a> is also actively recruiting inspectors in San Francisco, according to Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Julia Bernstein. The agency is trying to fill a number of vacant positions in the region and throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2014/2014-48.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA announced in late May that it was targeting Bay Area construction sites to make sure they complied with state safety rules\u003c/a>. In fact, the agency launched investigations into several of the contractors involved in the Mission Bay and Renoir Hotel fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the local staffing discussions for DBI and the Planning and Fire departments will take place at City Hall in the coming months. Mayor Ed Lee's administration and the Board of Supervisors are set to start hammering out a spending plan in March. The Board of Supervisor’s Budget and Finance Committee is expected to initiate hearings then on how much to fund each city department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president of the Board of Supervisors is receptive to the idea of adding staff to handle San Francisco’s construction boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of building happening and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe,” said Supervisor London Breed, elected last week to lead the board.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Picturing the First Boom: Images of Gold Rush San Francisco ",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>etween 1848 and 1852, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/06/boomtown-history-san-francisco-gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco exploded\u003c/a> from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were illustrators, photographers and mapmakers, who documented the city's shockingly quick rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Jean Jacques Vioget, a French-born ship's captain who arrived on San Francisco Bay in 1837, was among the first to settle in the village of Yerba Buena. In 1839, Mexican officials hired Vioget to survey and map the settlement. The area he laid out is roughly bounded by today's Pacific Avenue to the north, Washington Street to the south, Grant Avenue to the west and Montgomery Street to the east. The map is oriented with west at the top; the bay would be below the map's bottom border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, also known as the Plaza, seen in a daguerrotype dated 1851. The view is toward the west, with the pictured buildings along Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and the heights later dubbed Nob Hill. The image was credited to a dentist named S.C. McIntyre. (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398867 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"high-and-dry-sf-street-1856\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Bancroft Library) \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Hundreds of ships arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and many were abandoned as crews deserted to go to the gold fields. Some of the ships, like the whaling ship Niantic, were hauled ashore and incorporated into the city's earliest waterfront neighborhoods. The Niantic, shown here in a lithograph by wandering memoirist Frank Marryat, was pressed into service as a hotel near the corner of Clay and Sansome streets. The ship/hotel was destroyed during a fire that swept much of downtown in May 1851. (See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic: Buried Gold Rush Ship\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> A Frank Marryat view of San Francisco looking east across the city toward the bay. Yerba Buena Island is pictured at the left, with Mount Diablo visible in the distance at center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> And here's what the rapidly growing city looked like from the shore of Yerba Buena Island in 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10398865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\" alt=\"Wood engraving by F. Hickock. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps-400x215.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(F. Hickock/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This engraving, published in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper in June 1856, shows a Chinese settlement on the fringe of San Francisco. In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese immigrants registered at San Francisco customs houses -- most intending to travel inland to the gold fields. California imposed a Foreign Miners Tax that May; the levy of $3 a month was explicitly directed at Chinese miners. Violence increased soon after 200 Chinese miners were robbed and four murdered at Rich Gulch that year, according to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Alta California\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-400x311.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An early 1850s image of Mission Dolores, which despite San Francisco's rapid growth still lay well beyond the city's borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An 1857 map of San Francisco demonstrates the city's rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\" alt=\"(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This is one of several line engravings created by A. Nahl in 1856 showing workers at the San Francisco Mint, built just two years prior. Workers produced $4,084,207 worth of gold coins in 1854 alone, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Mint.\u003c/a> The new mint quickly outgrew the small brick building and moved to new headquarters at Fifth and Mission streets -- today's \"Old Mint\" -- in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398863 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy the Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom-400x305.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Women worked at mints throughout the United States during the mid-1850s. \u003ca href=\"http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/us-philadelphia-mint.html\" target=\"_blank\">By 1860\u003c/a>, women at the Philadelphia Mint earned 11 cents an hour and often worked 10 hours a day. San Francisco's mint was originally a branch of the Philadelphia Mint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>etween 1848 and 1852, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/06/boomtown-history-san-francisco-gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco exploded\u003c/a> from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were illustrators, photographers and mapmakers, who documented the city's shockingly quick rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Jean Jacques Vioget, a French-born ship's captain who arrived on San Francisco Bay in 1837, was among the first to settle in the village of Yerba Buena. In 1839, Mexican officials hired Vioget to survey and map the settlement. The area he laid out is roughly bounded by today's Pacific Avenue to the north, Washington Street to the south, Grant Avenue to the west and Montgomery Street to the east. The map is oriented with west at the top; the bay would be below the map's bottom border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, also known as the Plaza, seen in a daguerrotype dated 1851. The view is toward the west, with the pictured buildings along Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and the heights later dubbed Nob Hill. The image was credited to a dentist named S.C. McIntyre. (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398867 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"high-and-dry-sf-street-1856\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Bancroft Library) \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Hundreds of ships arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and many were abandoned as crews deserted to go to the gold fields. Some of the ships, like the whaling ship Niantic, were hauled ashore and incorporated into the city's earliest waterfront neighborhoods. The Niantic, shown here in a lithograph by wandering memoirist Frank Marryat, was pressed into service as a hotel near the corner of Clay and Sansome streets. The ship/hotel was destroyed during a fire that swept much of downtown in May 1851. (See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic: Buried Gold Rush Ship\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> A Frank Marryat view of San Francisco looking east across the city toward the bay. Yerba Buena Island is pictured at the left, with Mount Diablo visible in the distance at center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> And here's what the rapidly growing city looked like from the shore of Yerba Buena Island in 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10398865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\" alt=\"Wood engraving by F. Hickock. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps-400x215.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(F. Hickock/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This engraving, published in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper in June 1856, shows a Chinese settlement on the fringe of San Francisco. In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese immigrants registered at San Francisco customs houses -- most intending to travel inland to the gold fields. California imposed a Foreign Miners Tax that May; the levy of $3 a month was explicitly directed at Chinese miners. Violence increased soon after 200 Chinese miners were robbed and four murdered at Rich Gulch that year, according to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Alta California\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-400x311.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An early 1850s image of Mission Dolores, which despite San Francisco's rapid growth still lay well beyond the city's borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An 1857 map of San Francisco demonstrates the city's rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\" alt=\"(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This is one of several line engravings created by A. Nahl in 1856 showing workers at the San Francisco Mint, built just two years prior. Workers produced $4,084,207 worth of gold coins in 1854 alone, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Mint.\u003c/a> The new mint quickly outgrew the small brick building and moved to new headquarters at Fifth and Mission streets -- today's \"Old Mint\" -- in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398863 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy the Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom-400x305.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y now, the Bay Area has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of young seekers like Richard Henry Dana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana was a college undergraduate who left school in a crisis, taking a radical course in his search for answers about who he was and what he might become. His path led him from what appeared to be a safe life at Harvard, the scion of an established Massachusetts family, to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in coming to the West Coast, his quest found at least partial fulfillment. He tested himself physically in the journey, found himself adept at a difficult occupation, discovered exotic cultures and even picked up a new language, Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that many of us share a little bit of that story. We've come here looking for education, work, love, a change of scenery, a place where we might more fully know ourselves and give the genius we believe lives inside us a chance to breathe a little.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.'\u003ccite>Richard Henry Dana\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That much we might have in common with Richard Henry Dana. But his experience was essentially different from that of the throngs, including us, who have come anticipating a place of striking beauty, diverse culture and rich opportunity. Whatever we actually find, most of us have arrived ready to be enchanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BBV56SkjV9joNruaCgvFX89vACuWlokU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"stU2yGdY4FyadpEOH021b1tsAfRb6Nqz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd love to hear about your favorite reads, too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area protesters joined tens of thousands of others marching nationwide Saturday against police brutality in a demonstration dubbed the \"Millions March.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests began peacefully all over the Bay Area in the afternoon. In Oakland, more than 3,000 people peacefully marched from Frank Ogawa Plaza to the Alameda County Courthouse waving \"Black Lives Matter\" signs and chanting \"I can't breathe!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or: \"'Hands up, don't shoot!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, an Oakland-based organizer who helped coordinate the march, set the tone of the afternoon early at Broadway and 14th Street, calling black people to the front of the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We appreciate our white allies, and we appreciate you not using a megaphone today,\" Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378163\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of people marched in Oakland on Saturday afternoon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people marched in Oakland on Saturday afternoon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks says that the current nationwide protests against police brutality have roots in the Oakland protests over the killing of Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The civil rights movement didn’t just happen in 1960, 1970. It started in the '20s and the '30s in New York, and that’s how organizing goes,\" she said. \"What people are clamoring for is developing long-term solutions so that excitement doesn’t just happen when we catch the cops killing someone on camera.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers called for the federal government to intervene in what they call biased investigations of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinasa Ozonsi also helped organize the march and is a member of the Black Student Union at Cal State East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a collective effort by a coalition of various community-based groups,” she said. “We’re gathered here today to mourn the loss of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others who have essentially been killed by terrorism, police terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, Ifeany Ozonsi, is a student at City College of San Francisco, studying biology. He said he and his sister were born and raised in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly it makes me feel sad,” he said. “I’m a black American male, and I have to have a certain fear. Even if I’m doing good, if I’m walking down the street I could get shot just for being black. It’s scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “Peace, that’s all we want. I want to be able to live a peaceful and fear-free life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred black people led the march of thousands from Oakland's city center to the René C. Davidson Courthouse at 12th and Fallon streets. The crowd filled city blocks for at least half the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, spoke in front of the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want officers to be held accountable for their actions,\" she said. \"[To] feel that pain just as we have to feel it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people dispersed after several speeches at the courthouse. But after dark, a much smaller group of people continued marching on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several hundred people marched up Harrison Street, a group of people vandalized the Whole Foods store and attacked a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police gave an order to disperse and the crowd turned away from Lake Merritt. A group of cyclists cleared the way as demonstrators on foot marched back toward Interstate 880. That began an ongoing evening of cat-and-mouse with police, who would shut down on-ramps and streets as protesters neared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protests in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10378110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands protesting police brutality marched down Market street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands protesting police brutality marched up Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, hundreds of people staged a \"die-in\" at the Ferry Building. Several Muni bus lines and the Embarcadero Center were briefly shut down as thousands of people marched up Market Street to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front of City Hall, Refugio Nieto, the father of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto,\u003c/a> and Cadine Williams, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/08/san-francisco-cops-kills-suspected-car-thief\" target=\"_blank\">O'Shaine Evans,\u003c/a> spoke about what it was like to have their family members fatally shot by San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life you're taking. You took someone's loved one from them. So every time I get a chance, I'm marching to let you know who O'Shaine Evans is. And that we want justice, and hopefully by the time they get to O'Shaine Evans' case, we will get some justice. Because I see Eric Garner, and I see Michael Brown, and there was no justice,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expressed empathy with those protesters who become violent, saying that they see breaking things as the only way to express their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are angry. This is a calmer group of people, but people are angry. I'm angry, my brother is gone, I'm never going to see my brother again,\" Williams said. \"I see my mother every day crying; that's enough to make me angry. And when I get angry I get out there, I get out there in the street and I protest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub-crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco protesters briefly mixed into \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacon.info/San_Francisco-CA/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Con\u003c/a> revelers downtown. One demonstrator, James Jennison, used the annual holiday event as a disguise. Jennison, dressed as Santa, says that he had a flash bang explode on his foot at a peaceful protest in Berkeley where \"cops started instigating stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to see some more accountability with law enforcement and the way that they are trained and the way that they handle situations,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennison was one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-men-charged-in-Oakland-protest-looting-5928604.php\" target=\"_blank\">79 people arrested \u003c/a>in San Francisco on Black Friday, and was charged with obstructing an officer, a felony, as well as a misdemeanor battery on a police officer. He said he hoped that Saturday's protest would stay peaceful because violence takes away from the message he wants to send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown, high-end shops like Dior and Prada closed an hour early Saturday night, at 6 p.m. Gump's boarded its windows and had additional security guards. Protesters continued up from the Civic Center, demonstrating at the Mission Police Station and briefly blocking 24th and Mission streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, police \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/effigies-of-lynched-people-hung-on-uc-berkeley-campus\" target=\"_blank\">removed life-size photographs of lynching victims\u003c/a> that had been hung on the Cal campus. Investigators believe they were connected to a smaller protest in Berkeley at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley protest organizers said they didn't know where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope that it's someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,\" said one of the organizers, Spencer Pritchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day of Protest in Pictures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://storify.com/kqednews/thousands-protest-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-fran\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nickolai Morris contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It started in the '20s and the '30s in New York, and that’s how organizing goes,\" she said. \"What people are clamoring for is developing long-term solutions so that excitement doesn’t just happen when we catch the cops killing someone on camera.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers called for the federal government to intervene in what they call biased investigations of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinasa Ozonsi also helped organize the march and is a member of the Black Student Union at Cal State East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a collective effort by a coalition of various community-based groups,” she said. “We’re gathered here today to mourn the loss of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others who have essentially been killed by terrorism, police terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, Ifeany Ozonsi, is a student at City College of San Francisco, studying biology. He said he and his sister were born and raised in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly it makes me feel sad,” he said. “I’m a black American male, and I have to have a certain fear. Even if I’m doing good, if I’m walking down the street I could get shot just for being black. It’s scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “Peace, that’s all we want. I want to be able to live a peaceful and fear-free life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred black people led the march of thousands from Oakland's city center to the René C. Davidson Courthouse at 12th and Fallon streets. The crowd filled city blocks for at least half the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, spoke in front of the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want officers to be held accountable for their actions,\" she said. \"[To] feel that pain just as we have to feel it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people dispersed after several speeches at the courthouse. But after dark, a much smaller group of people continued marching on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several hundred people marched up Harrison Street, a group of people vandalized the Whole Foods store and attacked a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police gave an order to disperse and the crowd turned away from Lake Merritt. A group of cyclists cleared the way as demonstrators on foot marched back toward Interstate 880. That began an ongoing evening of cat-and-mouse with police, who would shut down on-ramps and streets as protesters neared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protests in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10378110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands protesting police brutality marched down Market street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands protesting police brutality marched up Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, hundreds of people staged a \"die-in\" at the Ferry Building. Several Muni bus lines and the Embarcadero Center were briefly shut down as thousands of people marched up Market Street to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front of City Hall, Refugio Nieto, the father of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto,\u003c/a> and Cadine Williams, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/08/san-francisco-cops-kills-suspected-car-thief\" target=\"_blank\">O'Shaine Evans,\u003c/a> spoke about what it was like to have their family members fatally shot by San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life you're taking. You took someone's loved one from them. So every time I get a chance, I'm marching to let you know who O'Shaine Evans is. And that we want justice, and hopefully by the time they get to O'Shaine Evans' case, we will get some justice. Because I see Eric Garner, and I see Michael Brown, and there was no justice,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expressed empathy with those protesters who become violent, saying that they see breaking things as the only way to express their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are angry. This is a calmer group of people, but people are angry. I'm angry, my brother is gone, I'm never going to see my brother again,\" Williams said. \"I see my mother every day crying; that's enough to make me angry. And when I get angry I get out there, I get out there in the street and I protest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub-crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco protesters briefly mixed into \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacon.info/San_Francisco-CA/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Con\u003c/a> revelers downtown. One demonstrator, James Jennison, used the annual holiday event as a disguise. Jennison, dressed as Santa, says that he had a flash bang explode on his foot at a peaceful protest in Berkeley where \"cops started instigating stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to see some more accountability with law enforcement and the way that they are trained and the way that they handle situations,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennison was one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-men-charged-in-Oakland-protest-looting-5928604.php\" target=\"_blank\">79 people arrested \u003c/a>in San Francisco on Black Friday, and was charged with obstructing an officer, a felony, as well as a misdemeanor battery on a police officer. He said he hoped that Saturday's protest would stay peaceful because violence takes away from the message he wants to send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown, high-end shops like Dior and Prada closed an hour early Saturday night, at 6 p.m. Gump's boarded its windows and had additional security guards. Protesters continued up from the Civic Center, demonstrating at the Mission Police Station and briefly blocking 24th and Mission streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, police \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/effigies-of-lynched-people-hung-on-uc-berkeley-campus\" target=\"_blank\">removed life-size photographs of lynching victims\u003c/a> that had been hung on the Cal campus. Investigators believe they were connected to a smaller protest in Berkeley at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley protest organizers said they didn't know where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope that it's someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,\" said one of the organizers, Spencer Pritchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day of Protest in Pictures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://storify.com/kqednews/thousands-protest-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-fran\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the corner of a gym in a San Francisco jail, there’s something you wouldn’t usually find behind bars: a condom machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new law that makes condoms available for free in all of California’s prisons. While sex between inmates is illegal, supporters of the “Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act” say making condoms available in prison will help prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law’s author, Assemblyman Rob Bonta, points to the machines in San Francisco’s jails as a model of how condom distribution could work on the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/180179842″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco began providing condoms to inmates in the 1980s in response to the AIDS crisis. There are now more than a dozen condom machines in San Francisco’s jails, according to Kate Monico Klein, director of HIV services for Jail Health, a division of the county’s Public Health Department. The dispenser in Jail Number Four was mounted in a corner of the gym “so that people would have a minor amount of privacy,” Monico Klein explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The CDC estimates that one in seven people living with HIV passes through correctional facilities each year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sex in jail is illegal even if it is consensual. Section 286(e) of the California Penal Code outlaws “sodomy with any person of any age while confined in any state prison … or in any local detention facility,” and California’s Code of Regulations prohibits all sexual acts between inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law’s the law, but should this behavior occur, there’s a safe, safer way,” says San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. “We want people to be protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one in seven people living with HIV passes through correctional facilities each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condoms are good to have around, I think, because it’s a life-saving device,” says Robert Greve, an inmate who’s serving a short sentence in the jail’s special unit for gay and transgender prisoners. “A lot of people don’t care about their health, I don’t think. Personally, I do. I’d rather not have sex than not use a condom, but some people do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367776\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Mirkarimi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10367776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Mirkarimi-400x442.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi\" width=\"336\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Mirkarimi-400x442.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Mirkarimi-800x884.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Mirkarimi.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having done time in several states, Greve says this is the first time he’s been locked up in a facility where condoms are provided. With a laugh, he says he likes to make use of the machine, taking “10 of them every time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another inmate in the jail, Rene Angel Ramirez, says he’s HIV-positive and uses condoms to keep partners safe — and to protect himself from diseases like gonorrhea, chlamydia or hepatitis C. He says he knows people who have contracted HIV while in custody. “We still have the need of sex,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Monico Klein recalls, when condoms were first introduced in San Francisco jails, some deputies were unhappy with the plan. Apart from the illegality of sex between inmates, there were concerns that condoms could be used for smuggling drugs, or filled with urine and thrown at staff, known as “gassing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says deputies were also concerned that making condoms available would lead to an increase in both consensual sex and sexual assault. The Sheriff’s Department says that hasn’t happened in the years since condoms have been available. But the condoms have been used in some unexpected ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that among other things, prisoners take the condoms and they use them as hair ties. They use them as pillows,” says Monico Klein. “One of the deputies told me that they blow them up and use them as balloons. While this initially bothered some people, she says, “we realized that this is another way of destigmatizing HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after more than two decades, San Francisco Chief Deputy Sheriff Matthew Freeman says not all deputies are comfortable with condoms being available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could not report to you that there still is buy-in from the uniformed staff,” Freeman says, and adds there are reasons sex is prohibited in jail. “We know from experiences running and managing jails that even consensual activity amongst inmates can lead to very real problems.”\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has five years to come up with its plan for distributing condoms in state prisons, a move that Mirkarimi says is “years overdue.” Other prisons and jails across the U.S. have been slow to follow San Francisco’s lead, something Mirkarimi attributes to the slow pace of reform in the criminal justice system, as well as homophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Greve says that, based on his own experience in state lockups, the only problem he imagines with providing condoms in California state prisons will be supply, because “people will want as many of them as they can get.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 10:05 a.m.:\u003c/strong> The still-unidentified window washer who fell from the roof of an 11-story building in downtown San Francisco is recovering from his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department spokeswoman Lt. Mindy Talmadge said Monday the worker is still in the intensive-care unit at San Francisco General Hospital. The man is improving, she said. He reportedly suffered fractures and other injuries in the 130-foot fall onto a moving car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Saturday 12:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong> We haven't seen any updates on the condition of the unidentified window washer who survived an estimated 130-foot fall from a Financial District building onto a passing car Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/teresa/status/535869150904586240\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we will venture to say the San Francisco Chronicle has produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Worker-plunges-from-downtown-San-Francisco-5909289.php\" target=\"_blank\">the best account of the incident\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what the driver of the car told the Chron:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[D]river ... Mohammad Alcozai of Dublin, got out almost immediately after the impact. The victim hit the roof and back window of the 2002 four-door Camry, totaling the car. A split-second difference in timing and the worker might have landed on the windshield, with potentially terrible consequences for Alcozai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a miracle,” Alcozai told The Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A traveling tech specialist, Alcozai said he was supposed to go on a call to Walnut Creek on\u003cbr>\nFriday morning, but after it was canceled he wound up in San Francisco. As he was about to turn onto California Street from Montgomery, his car’s navigation system went blank, so he slowed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the system turned back on, he sped up — “and that’s when something hit my car with a terrible thump,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the changes in where I went and how I was going this morning, I think God wanted me to be there just at the moment that poor man fell,” Alcozai said. “It was a miracle that he was able to fall in my car, and it was a miracle that I was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just hope he comes through all right.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday, Nov. 21): \u003c/strong>San Francisco police and state safety officials are investigating a Friday morning incident in which a window washer reportedly fell from the roof of an 11-story Financial District building onto a passing car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker suffered injuries described variously as \"serious\" and \"critical\" and is being treated at San Francisco General Hospital. The driver of the car was uninjured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said the still-unidentified worker was working with equipment on the roof of the building at 400 Montogomery St. when he fell for unknown reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA is investigating and says the man involved in the 10:03 a.m. incident was employed by Century Window Cleaning. The agency says the firm was cited and fined in 2008 for several safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More details: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/11/21/man-falls-from-building-onto-car-in-san-franciscos-financial-district/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\nCBS San Francisco reports\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The window washer and a co-worker were adjusting their cables from a platform above when something went awry and the worker ended up falling 11 stories onto the car, completely caving in the back part of the Toyota Camry’s roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accident victim was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital with critical injuries, but the person in the car managed to escape without significant injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Danielle Newman with the San Francisco Police Department said that pedestrians below in the busy Financial District were very lucky to have escaped injury and that the window washer was lucky to have fallen on the car because it broke his fall.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Construction-Worker-Falls-11-Stories-in-San-Francisco-283510161.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand\" target=\"_blank\">adds a witness's brief account\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Samuel Hartwell, who was on his way to a meeting, saw some of what happened: \"I saw a blue streak out of the corner of my eye,\" and then that \"streak\" hit a car with a great \"thud.\" Soon afterward, Hartwell realized that \"streak\" was a person.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/window-washer-falls-60-feet-from-sf-high-rise/405698/\" target=\"_blank\">From ABC7:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bianca Bahman, 31, a pre-med student at San Francisco State University, was walking to the gym saw the man's shadow as he was falling and then saw him land on a Toyota Camry approaching the intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car's roof caved in and there was blood everywhere, Bahman said. She ran to the man to see if he was OK and said there was blood coming from his ears and he was gasping for breath as he rolled off the car onto the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coworker remained on the roof and Bahman said she could hear him screaming.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cal OSHA has sent a safety engineer to the scene to look into the incident. The agency expects to determine by Friday afternoon whether it will open an official investigation into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's episode is the second high-rise window-washing incident in the news this month. Last week, two workers were stranded more than 800 feet up the side of New York's 1 World Trade Center building. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/nyregion/world-trade-center-window-washers-just-grabbed-on-during-rescue-.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">They were rescued uninjured\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although such episodes are attention-getting, \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylab.com/commute/2013/06/dont-forget-window-washing-safer-driving-taxi/5900/\" target=\"_blank\">observers often point out\u003c/a> that high-rise window-washing is safer than many other occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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As he was about to turn onto California Street from Montgomery, his car’s navigation system went blank, so he slowed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the system turned back on, he sped up — “and that’s when something hit my car with a terrible thump,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the changes in where I went and how I was going this morning, I think God wanted me to be there just at the moment that poor man fell,” Alcozai said. “It was a miracle that he was able to fall in my car, and it was a miracle that I was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just hope he comes through all right.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday, Nov. 21): \u003c/strong>San Francisco police and state safety officials are investigating a Friday morning incident in which a window washer reportedly fell from the roof of an 11-story Financial District building onto a passing car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker suffered injuries described variously as \"serious\" and \"critical\" and is being treated at San Francisco General Hospital. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Localish\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials declare that the payroll and stock-option tax breaks granted to Twitter and other companies -- to get them to move to the long-depressed mid-Market Street area -- have been \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">a big win for city revenues\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(San Francisco Chronicle) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/27/protesters-accuse-airbnb-of-killing-san-franciscos-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\">Amid protests\u003c/a>, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/10/sf-mayor-signs-airbnb-legislation-ed-lee.html\" target=\"_blank\">signed legislation\u003c/a> legalizing and regulating Airbnb short-term rentals in San Francisco. But the fight's not over: Airbnb opponents, who warn the new ordinance will exacerbate the city's affordable housing crisis, say they'll launch a ballot campaign to repeal it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Police are investigating how a big-rig driver struck and killed a teenager riding his bike to school in Cupertino. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Election season\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For many voters deciding between mayoral hopefuls Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/28/residential-crime-could-tip-vote-san-jose-mayor-race/\" target=\"_blank\">the top issue is residential crime\u003c/a> and what the candidates plan to do about it. \u003cstrong>(Beth Willon, KQED News) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An official-looking election guide that purports to show the ideological positions of candidates relative to President Barack Obama and 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-election-mailers-study-20141027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">is being sent to voters\u003c/a> in two California congressional districts. The ersatz guides, from political science researchers at Stanford and Dartmouth, \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/montana-election-mailer-state-seal-stanford-dartmouth-professors\" target=\"_blank\">were also sent to voters in Montana\u003c/a>, where they've prompted an investigation into possible campaign-law violations. \u003cstrong>(Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>With eight days to go until Election Day, Gov. 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Something similar is happening in Anaheim, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/disney-639722-anaheim-pac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney has spent more than $500,000\u003c/a> to elect City Council candidates who support a streetcar line it wants built. \u003cstrong>(Richmond Confidential, Orange County Register) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Viral candidacy: Peter Liu, a self-described multimillionaire whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">official campaign portrait\u003c/a> shows him posing with what appears to be a semiautomatic pistol, is one of 15 candidates running for Oakland City Council. Thanks to a San Francisco Chronicle video interview on his policy stands, he's now the only one in the field \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/a>. Watch:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/DNg9Mx6t91U\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ebola\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>UCSF lab works to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_26811343/ebolas-evolving-threat-studied-ucsf-lab\" target=\"_blank\">unravel the past and future\u003c/a> that might be revealed in the Ebola virus's DNA. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/nyregion/christie-ebola-policy-new-jersey-and-new-york.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Chris Christie defends his draconian Ebola quarantine policy \u003c/a>as scientists condemn it. \u003cstrong>(The New York Times)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And one more from the Times, which over the past couple of months has crafted an absorbing portrait of the grim reality of life at the heart of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa: How the wish to do more to help the afflicted in Liberia \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/africa/wish-to-do-more-in-ebola-fight-meets-reality-in-liberia.html?\" target=\"_blank\">collides with poverty and the lack of basic resources\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>World Series\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Giants secret to postseason success on the road? \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_26809549/giants-sleep-at-home-before-heading-kansas-city\" target=\"_blank\">Sleep first, then travel\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the World Series goes to a seventh game, the Giants say ace Madison Bumgarner \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/bumgarner-available-out-of-bullpen-for-potential-game-7/2014/10/27/2441eed0-5e19-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">will be available out of the bullpen\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Giant memories: A lifelong fan of baseball's Giants -- the New York Giants, who ceased to exist in 1958 -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/giant-memories/\" target=\"_blank\">ponders his long-lost love\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(Beyond Chron)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>And also: \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, talk about the editor who made it possible: \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-ben-bradlee-we-knew-friend-fierce-editor-and-a-truth-seeker-above-all/2014/10/28/c565eb86-5df1-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html?hpid=z1\" target=\"_blank\">The Ben Bradlee we knew: Friend, fierce editor and truth-seeker, above all\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(Washington Post)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But the fight's not over: Airbnb opponents, who warn the new ordinance will exacerbate the city's affordable housing crisis, say they'll launch a ballot campaign to repeal it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Police are investigating how a big-rig driver struck and killed a teenager riding his bike to school in Cupertino. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Election season\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For many voters deciding between mayoral hopefuls Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/28/residential-crime-could-tip-vote-san-jose-mayor-race/\" target=\"_blank\">the top issue is residential crime\u003c/a> and what the candidates plan to do about it. \u003cstrong>(Beth Willon, KQED News) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An official-looking election guide that purports to show the ideological positions of candidates relative to President Barack Obama and 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-election-mailers-study-20141027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">is being sent to voters\u003c/a> in two California congressional districts. The ersatz guides, from political science researchers at Stanford and Dartmouth, \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/montana-election-mailer-state-seal-stanford-dartmouth-professors\" target=\"_blank\">were also sent to voters in Montana\u003c/a>, where they've prompted an investigation into possible campaign-law violations. \u003cstrong>(Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>With eight days to go until Election Day, Gov. Jerry Brown officially \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/27/brown-launches-reelection-bid-sort-of/\" target=\"_blank\">hits the campaign trail\u003c/a> -- sort of. \u003cstrong>(John Myers, KQED News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Political reporter Josh Richman of the \u003cstrong>Bay Area News Group\u003c/strong> takes a look at Neel Kashkari's very untraditional GOP campaign for governor and suggests that \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26811348/kashkari-might-blaze-path-even-while-losing\" target=\"_blank\">the effort could shift the strategy\u003c/a> of future Republican candidates in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Company towns: In Richmond, \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/27/why-chevrons-trying-to-buy-richmonds-elections/\" target=\"_blank\">Chevron has poured millions of dollars\u003c/a> into a campaign to elect a company-friendly slate of city officials. Something similar is happening in Anaheim, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/disney-639722-anaheim-pac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney has spent more than $500,000\u003c/a> to elect City Council candidates who support a streetcar line it wants built. \u003cstrong>(Richmond Confidential, Orange County Register) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Viral candidacy: Peter Liu, a self-described multimillionaire whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">official campaign portrait\u003c/a> shows him posing with what appears to be a semiautomatic pistol, is one of 15 candidates running for Oakland City Council. Thanks to a San Francisco Chronicle video interview on his policy stands, he's now the only one in the field \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/a>. Watch:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/DNg9Mx6t91U\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ebola\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>UCSF lab works to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_26811343/ebolas-evolving-threat-studied-ucsf-lab\" target=\"_blank\">unravel the past and future\u003c/a> that might be revealed in the Ebola virus's DNA. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/nyregion/christie-ebola-policy-new-jersey-and-new-york.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/24/priscila-moreto-identified-as-city-hall-employee-killed-by-trolley-car\" target=\"_blank\">identified a 68-year-old woman\u003c/a> struck and killed outside City Hall by a tour bus on Thursday. She's \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/10/20/87-year-old-louis-van-velzen-killed-by-driver-on-deadly-sloat-blvd/\" target=\"_blank\">the second pedestrian to die\u003c/a> on the city's streets this week.\u003cstrong> (SF Weekly, SFStreetsBlog)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Lexington Club, iconic Mission District lesbian bar (and what \u003cstrong>SFist\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/10/23/oh_no_citys_only_lesbian_bar_the_le.php\" target=\"_blank\">calls\u003c/a> the \"city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women\") is shutting down. \u003cstrong>48 Hills\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://48hillsonline.org/2014/10/23/lexington-club-closing-owner-says-higher-rent-gentrification-gender-inequality-hurt-iconic-lesbian-bar/\" target=\"_blank\">interviews\u003c/a> owner Lila Thirkield, who says the bar's no longer viable, given higher rent and the departure of many patrons from the neighborhood and city.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New York City authorities are trying to track the movements of a doctor, recently returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, who has now tested positive for the disease. \u003cstrong>The New York Times\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/nyregion/new-york-ebola-case-craig-spencer.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports on the hunt\u003c/a> for those who may have come into contact with the sick man -- who had ridden the subway and gone out bowling the night before he reported his illness -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/tracing-patients-possible-contacts-creates-host-of-challenges-for-the-city.html\" target=\"_blank\">the logistical challenges\u003c/a> of tracing his movements in a city of 8 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Washington, a Texas nurse who contracted Ebola after treating the first victim to appear in the United States \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dallas-nurse-treated-for-ebola-at-nih-now-virus-free/2014/10/24/91355cd2-5b8c-11e4-bd61-346aee66ba29_story.html?hpid=z2\" target=\"_blank\">is declared virus free\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(Washington Post)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ebola is here, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/ebola-cure-treatment-scams-fear-silver-vitamin-money?CMP=fb_us\" target=\"_blank\">so are the con artists\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>The Guardian\u003c/strong> on the seemingly inevitable scams and conspiracy theories attending the arrival of the dread disease in the United States.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland's \u003cstrong>Pacific Institute\u003c/strong>, one of several California institutions providing first-rate analysis of water issues, has published its\u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/publication/insights-into-2014-california-water-bond/\"> analysis of Proposition 1\u003c/a>, the water bond on the state's November ballot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/marcus-thompson/ci_26788756/thompson-giants-have-no-need-worry\" target=\"_blank\">Giants will host Game 3 \u003c/a>of the World Series on Friday evening at AT&T Park. The\u003cstrong> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Giants-winning-big-on-revenue-5843647.php\" target=\"_blank\">analyzes the team's business this year\u003c/a> and says no matter how the Fall Classic turns out, 2014 has been a very good year for the franchise.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Oakland A's have hammered out a deal with the city of San Jose to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci_26787877/and-san-jose-agree-7-year-extension-new\" target=\"_blank\">extend their purchase option\u003c/a> on a downtown ballpark site for another seven years. The inside baseball: This is a way for the team, which recently concluded a 10-year lease extension (complete with early escape clause) to keep open its long-term options for a new ballpark. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Sunlight Foundation\u003c/strong> reports on the ad bonanza enjoyed by local commercial broadcasters during election season. \u003ca href=\"http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/10/23/thirty-minutes-on-philly-tv-news-11-political-ads-no-political-stories/\" target=\"_blank\">One case in point:\u003c/a> a local news broadcast in Philadelphia that featured 11 political ads during a 30-minute newscast without a single story on upcoming elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A key finding about comets, those dirty snowballs whirling through the solar system: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/24/358364942/european-scientists-conclude-that-distant-comet-smells-terrible\" target=\"_blank\">They stink.\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>(NPR)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SPUR, the San Francisco-based urban affairs think tank, has debuted \u003ca href=\"http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/23/a_first_look_at_spurs_fascinating_urban_cartography_show.php\" target=\"_blank\">a new exhibit\u003c/a>, Urban Cartography. The show explores recent trends in mapmaking and showcases a bunch of different (and very, very cool) ways to look at the Bay Area. \u003cstrong>(SFCurbed)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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