Tag: San Francisco (Calif)

San Francisco Mayor Gives Panda Diplomacy a Try

Facing a tough re-election fight in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has already proposed building a soccer stadium in place of an underused mall, adding a college to the hollowed-out downtown and filling the city’s quiet streets with lively night markets. But now, Ms. Breed has a new idea to reverse the city’s post-pandemic woes: […]

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Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty

He has an easy smile, blue eyes and a life-threatening bone infection in one arm. Grateful for treatment, he jokes with the medical intern each morning. A friend, a fellow doctor, is supervising the man’s care. We both work as internists at a public hospital in the medical safety net, a loose term for institutions […]

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California Highway 1 Collapse Leaves 2,000 Tourists Stranded

A portion of Highway 1 in the Big Sur area of California collapsed over the weekend, stranding about 2,000 motorists, most of them tourists, overnight. Officials with the California Department of Transportation said on the X platform that a section of the highway, from Lime Creek to the north and Limekiln to the south, would […]

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