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![A sign on a makeshift memorial with a quote by Keenan Anderson is displayed during a vigil in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, for Anderson, the cousin of Black Lives Matters co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who went into cardiac arrest and died on Jan. 3 after Los Angeles police tased him following a traffic collision. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP)]()
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Is strip-mining the sea floor to fight climate change necessary? Let’s find out before it’s too late
![San Diego, CaliforniaJune 8, 2021Nodules containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese rest top these core samples taken from the deep ocean floor. They were obtained as part of an environmental impact assessment research trip. Gerard Barron, Chairman and CEO of The Metals Company, plans for his company to mine the seafloor for these nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)]()
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![FILE - An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans. As voters get ready for hundreds of elections of local and national importance this year, officials and voting rights advocates are bracing for a repeat of the misinformation that overwhelmed the 2020 presidential election. This year, the voting advocacy group Common Cause hopes to rely on thousands of volunteers to identify misinformation floating around online and push for social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to take down the most egregious falsehoods. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)]()
More Opinion
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![A passerby watches the rain-swollen Pajaro River in Watsonville on Jan. 12, 2023. Many homes in Watsonville suffered flood damage.]()
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![A man holds up a poster with Martin Luther King's face as he participates in the MLK walk to commemorate the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019.]()
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![San Francisco Board of Education member Kevine Boggess and board president Jenny Lam are seen during a school board meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday March 22, 2022. This is also the first meeting in 2 years that the public was allowed to attend.]()
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![California Gov. Gavin Newsom smiles after taking the oath of office on Jan. 6, 2023, outside the California Capitol in Sacramento.]()
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![CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JANUARY 12: In this photo illustration, flames burn on a natural gas-burning stove on January 12, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Consumers and politicians have voiced concern after the commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently suggested that gas stoves were a health hazard, leading people to believe that they would be banned. (Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)]()
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![Twitter’s headquarters seen in 2019. San Francisco officials are investigating an allegation that some office space was illegally converted into bedrooms.]()
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![This image released by Ready Fictions shows in a scene from "Feels Good Man," about an artist battling to regain control of his creation Pepe the Frog. (Kurt Keppeler/Ready Fictions via AP)]()
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![Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), center, marches with his family on the Tower Bridge with supporters during his Inauguration Day on Friday, January 6, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif.]()
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![An SF Police car patrols Civic Center on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 in San Francisco, California.]()
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![Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla in his lab while his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator produces bolts of electricity. December 1899.]()
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![Historic building fronts on Main Street, Livingston, Montana, USA]()
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![FILE - Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial in New York, on Feb. 24, 2020. On Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, Weinstein was found guilty of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)]()
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![Protesters hold signs and shout slogans during the Los Angeles City Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 in Los Angeles. A small group of protesters is chanting throughout the meeting calling for the resignations of Councilman Kevin de Leon. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)]()
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![WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 05: U.S. Rep.-elect Cory Mills (R-FL) (L) talks to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the House Chamber during the third day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives is meeting to vote for the next Speaker after House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to earn more than 218 votes on several ballots; the first time in 100 years that the Speaker was not elected on the first ballot. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)]()
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![In this aerial image, a homeless encampment can be seen off of Wood Street near Raimondi Park in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. The camp is one of the cityâs largest.]()
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![Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says U.S. health officials are considering adding a negative coronavirus test to the current five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic people who contract the virus.]()
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![FILE - Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The mandate was lifted under an $858 billion defense spending bill passed by Congress and signed into law Friday by President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)]()
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![Seagulls sit next to dead fish in Lake Merritt in Oakland in August. Algae blooms on the lake and in San Francisco Bay killed many fish in late summer.]()
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![A voter picks out a sticker after voting on Election Day at the Oakland Public Library in Oakland, Calif. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Californians are voting on seven propositions and deciding who will fill all California’s statewide offices, from governor, attorney general, state controller and more.]()
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![It’s too bad that most patients have to wait until they’re at the edge of death to get the care they deserve.]()
Letters to the Editor
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![Bay Area air quality regulators are considering adopting rules that would effectively ban the sale of new water heaters and furnaces that run on natural gas in less than a decade.]()
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![Collier Gwin, owner of Foster Gwin Gallery, who was seen in a now viral video spraying water at an unhoused person on the sidewalk, gestures while speaking with The Chronicle in San Francisco, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.]()
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![Bicyclists ride on Market Street past Twitter headquarters on November 4, 2022, in San Francisco.]()
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![Gallery owner Collier Gwin was caught on video spraying water on a homeless woman.]()
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![SFPD officer Tyler Cope’s police patch on his shoulder in SOMA in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The San Francisco Police Commission approved a measure Wednesday that would limit pretextual stops by SFPD officers.]()
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![SFPD officer Tyler Cope’s police patch on his shoulder in SOMA in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The San Francisco Police Commission approved a measure Wednesday that would limit pretextual stops by SFPD officers.]()
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![S.F. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has struggled to sway judges on pre-trial detention for dangerous fentanyl dealers.]()
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![Jerry Monticello pets his cat as he smokes his pipe and watches the Russian River rise, currently just a couple feet from his lawn, Forestville, Calif, January, 8th, 2023. According to the National Weather Service, the Russian River will reach flood stage, 32 feet, by January 9th.]()
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![A single family home sits at 3832 18th St. in San Francisco’s Mission District, the site of a proposed apartment building.]()
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![Wood Street encampment resident Theo Cedar Jones plays guitar on April 29, 2022 in Oakland, California.on Friday,]()
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Letters: Damar Hamlin’s injury has people taking about NFL violence. What about the rest of society?
![Bills safety Damar Hamlin arrives on the field before a game against the Bears on Dec. 24 in Chicago. Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest on the field in Monday’s game in Cincinnati.]()
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![Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin (3) lies on the turf after making a tackle on Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins, blocked from view, as Buffalo Bills linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (49) assists at the end of the play during the first half of an NFL football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, in Cincinnati. After getting up from the play, Hamlin collapsed and was administered CPR on the field. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)]()
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![FILE - In this May 11, 2021, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Fauci has been a lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, when he was lionized by the left as a beacon of truth and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat who too often sought to undermine then-President Donald Trump. But since the release of a trove of his emails obtained by news outlets, Republicans have sharply escalated their attacks on the nation's top government infectious diseases expert. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP, File)]()
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![Southwest Airlines jets are parked at gates at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on Dec. 29, 2022.]()
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![A Russian military convoy is seen on the road toward the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Southeastern Ukraine on May. 1, 2022.]()
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![Salesforce Tower puts on a light show as the fog returns after a brief storm earlier in the day in downtown, San Francisco on August 17, 2022.]()
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![Read some articles in today's newspaper and try to omit in your mind the politician's party, or the partisan descriptors "liberal" or "conservative."]()
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![House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks at the California Republican Party convention at Anaheim Marriott Hotel in Anaheim on April 23.]()
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![Anyone can book a hotel room anywhere in the world through an app like Hotel.com. Why can't San Francisco develop an app for a couple dozen shelters?]()
