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Waymo’s Bay Area depot is a glimpse of autonomous vehicle future

They say seeing is believing. On a brisk and sunny February morning, a ride around San Francisco in a Waymo fully autonomous vehicle and a walk around the company’s depot was indeed eye-opening.

Tribune News Service

Kraft Heinz Steps Up Product Portfolio Transformation Via NotCo JV

Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ:KHC) has formed a joint venture (JV) with food tech start-up TheNotCompany Inc (NotCo). The financial terms were not disclosed. The JV will leverage NotCo's artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and Kraft Heinz's brand portfolio and scale to develop plant-based versions of co-branded products. The JV will operate under the control of…

Benzinga

Could Marcus Mariota land in San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan?

Marcus Mariota to the 49ers? Don't rule it out.

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World news snapshot: New Zealand PM condemns actions of Covid protesters, balmy weather in San Francisco is set to end and Argentina counts the cost of major fires

European Union signals sanctions against Russia as Japan considers stricter rules governing sex offenders

Wales Online

5 Bay Area castles for romance, mystery and adventure

SAN JOSE, Calif. — If you can’t decide between getting your Old World castle fix in Scotland, France, Germany or Spain, why not try something much closer to home?

Tribune News Service

San Francisco mayor: recalled school board members were distracted by politics

Covid closures and attempt to rename schools deemed named for figures linked to injustice, including Abraham Lincoln, fueled vote

The Guardian - US

Tyler Cowen: Wokeism has peaked

I’m calling it: Wokeism has peaked. Yes, it will remain a highly influential movement, and it will probably continue to spread globally. But in the U.S. at least, wokeism and the woke will ebb.

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Legal questions mount amid San Francisco rape kit DNA case

The revelation that the San Francisco police crime lab used a sexual assault victim’s DNA against her in an unrelated property crime case — and the allegation that it may be a common practice in California — has prompted a national outcry among law enforcement, legal experts, lawmakers and advocates

The Independent UK

San Francisco’s recall isn’t entirely about the ‘woke left’ going too far

Pandemic fatigue, money and anti-Asian racism all played a role in the recall, writes Eric Garcia

The Independent UK

Five governors—all in states with divided governments—have vetoed at least one redistricting map this cycle

Welcome to the Friday, February 18, Brew.

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Commentary: San Francisco school board members ignored parents and students. So they were ousted

Like most people who leave the city they grew up in and build a life somewhere else, I did not pay much attention to my hometown school board — until the barrage of bad decisions out of San Francisco became so extreme that I couldn’t turn away.

Los Angeles Times

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's paternity leave sparks question of how much is enough

SAN FRANCISCO: When Twitter Inc head Parag Agrawal said this week that he'll take "a few weeks" off following the birth of his second child, he was praised for breaking a taboo surrounding top executives and paternity leave. Others said his plans don't go far enough.

The Times of India

Recall Effort Against San Francisco School Board Members Wins In A Landslide Vote

Voters in historically Democratic San Francisco ousted the board members by a margin of nearly 50 percent.

Zenger

San Francisco school board recall vote seen as warning sign for Democrats amid fury over Covid policies

Recall campaign targets officials rocked by scandal and misplaced priorities over Covid-19 frustrations

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Voters in California and Nebraska approve school board recall elections

The San Francisco Unified School District in California and the Giltner school district in Nebraska held recall elections against a total of four school board members on Feb. 15. Voters in both school districts approved the recalls, removing the board members from office.

Los Angeles Times

San Francisco is usually seen as a lefty outlier. The school board recalls may make it a bellwether

LOS ANGELES — San Francisco is so famous for its liberalism that the city has become shorthand for eccentric political sensibilities far to the left of most Americans. But after Tuesday’s trio of school board recalls, Democrats and Republicans alike see the city not as an outlier, but as a…

Ballotpedia

San Francisco voters recall three school board members

Welcome to the Thursday, February 17, Brew.

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: From liberal San Francisco, school board recall is a three-alarm warning for Democrats

San Francisco is quite familiar with earthquakes, and what happened Tuesday — the ouster of three extreme lefties from the Board of Education — was not one of those.

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The Independent UK

San Francisco school board recall a warning for Democrats

The parents of San Francisco have spoken, and their message is echoing like a wake-up call across the country

The Independent UK

Use of rape-kit DNA to probe other crimes shocks prosecutors

The San Francisco district attorney’s stunning disclosure that California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes shocked prosecutors nationwide

The Independent UK

San Francisco school board recall vote seen as warning sign for Democrats amid fury over Covid policies

Recall campaign targets officials rocked by scandal and misplaced priorities over Covid-19 frustrations

Axios

Asian Americans flex their voting power in San Francisco school board recall

The recall effort was largely driven by Asian American parents who were discontent with the board's delay in reopening schools.

The Guardian - US

San Francisco DA drops charges against woman whose rape kit DNA linked her to a property crime

District attorney Chesa Boudin said the charges violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures

Los Angeles Times

La policía de San Francisco usó el ADN de víctimas de violación para intentar 'incriminarlas', afirmó el fiscal de distrito

El fiscal de Distrito de San Francisco, Chesa Boudin, afirmó el lunes que la policía usó una base de datos con el ADN recolectado de víctimas de violación y agresión sexual para vincular a algunas de ellas con delitos.

The Guardian - US

San Francisco residents recall three members of embattled school board

Recall effort split Democrats as Mayor London Breed criticized school board for being distracted by ‘political agendas’

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