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Holiday news — SF Chronicle getting its own cable car to dress up this year Nov 23, 2018

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This is the week to give thanks, and of course I’m grateful for my family, my friends and my home in one of the most fascinating cities in the world. I’m also thankful for the legions of people who keep San Francisco — in all its weirdness and whimsy — rolling along for the rest of us. Like Val Lupiz, who in July will celebrate his 20th year as a cable car gripman.

SFPD adding cops to walk the beat in gritty Mid-Market Nov 22, 2018

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed has directed the Police Department to ramp up foot patrols around the Mid-Market corridor — it’s the latest incremental step in the city’s effort to rejuvenate the area and rid it of the drug pushers that have long congregated there. On Wednesday, Breed is expected to announce that 10 additional officers, two sergeants and a lieutenant will be reassigned to the SFPD’s Tenderloin Station.

In Magalia, residents stayed to save homes, but now they’re stuck Nov 21, 2018

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MAGALIA, Butte County — Matthew Schlegel hauled a singed bicycle up the front steps of the Paradise Pines RV park’s recreation building and leaned it against another one. “I got your bike,” he hollered to his wife, Tosha Sumrall, who was inside the center with her part Dachshund and pitbull dog, Toad. The bicycles were Schlegel’s and Sumrall’s only mode of transportation.

Muir Woods’ scarred trees reveal history of wildfires Nov 20, 2018

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More than a million visitors a year come from all over the world to marvel at the magnificent redwoods at Muir Woods National Monument, an untouched old forest only a dozen miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. People wandering through Muir Woods cannot help but notice an ominous sight: dozens of trees bearing the blackened scars of old fires.

Thousands of Camp Fire evacuees in shelters, tents face long wait for normalcy Nov 19, 2018

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CHICO, Butte County — Tents sprawled in a parking lot. Cots jammed side by side in a fairgrounds. Desperation on the faces of the parents and children with nothing but smoking ruins to go home to. The devastating Camp Fire that wiped out the town of Paradise and savaged neighborhoods for miles around in Butte County has shoved 52,000 people out of their homes.

David Pearson was the ‘craftiest of all’ NASCAR drivers Nov 16, 2018

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David Pearson, who was hailed as NASCAR’s Silver Fox for his cunning behind the wheel that propelled him to three top-series championships and acclaim as perhaps the most brilliant driver in the history of stock-car racing, died Monday. Pearson, who had lived in Spartanburg, S.C., in his retirement years collecting classic cars, was 83. His death was announced by NASCAR, which did not provide details. It said that Pearson’s family announced in 2014 that he had suffered a stroke.

A party to end all parties: SF went wild when WWI ended Nov 15, 2018

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At 1 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11, 1918, San Francisco held one of the greatest celebrations in its history. Shouting and singing, an army of men and women flowed up and down Market Street, waving flags and banging on drums. Tens of thousands massed in public places to attend religious services and hear dignitaries give patriotic speeches. Exuberant drivers careened through the streets, honking their horns and dragging tin cans. The bash didn’t run out of steam until well into the next night.

Trump backs Pelosi for speaker. She’ll win anyway Nov 14, 2018

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi nailed it when she predicted a week before the election that Democrats would win back the House. Even the doubters now have to admit: She knows her stuff. President Trump, of all people, acknowledged that her hard work had earned her the right to be the next speaker. I’m not sure how much weight a Trump endorsement is going to carry with Democratic lawmakers. But I’m going out on a limb and predicting that when the caucus votes Nov.

Love affair survived World War I to last a lifetime Nov 13, 2018

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Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the war that was supposed to end all wars. A solemn day, often forgotten, mixed up with other observances and holidays. They called it the Great War back then. It changed the world, and for years people paused for a minute of silence to remember the moment the war ended — the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. The United States sent a million soldiers to France.

Week a fitting time to celebrate East Indians’ success in SF Nov 12, 2018

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Twenty years ago, when M.R. Rangaswami moved to San Francisco, there were only a few East Indians in the city. “There were hardly any of us here then. Maybe a thousand or so,” he said. Now, there are 10 times as many in the city, and thousands more in the Bay Area, said Rangaswami, a software engineer who founded a nonprofit leadership organization, Indiaspora, in 2012 to unite Indian Americans and showcase their success on the global stage.

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