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Newsom loves his veto pen so this one surprised me! Cannabis cafes are now on their way to California. Most pot shops won't have lounges. And most lounges won't spend the money to serve food. But the few businesses that explore this area of cannabis hospitality could blaze a trail for an entirely new type of cannabis culture in America... https://lnkd.in/gadYqnwz
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had a tough announcement for his company’s remote work enthusiasts on Monday: The tech and logistics giant is bringing its staff back into the office five days a week. https://lnkd.in/g5xc8Hid
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This is hard for me to write... I have good friends who have invested their entire businesses into producing amazing cannabis vapes. I believe that it is possible to produce clean vape carts. And I've spent years writing about how vaping can be a great product category. But I won't hit a vape anymore, and I recommend all of my family and friends stay away as well. There's simply too many risks associated with dirty vape carts, from heavy metal leeching into the oil to mystery pesticides that the state has no idea how to regulate. No one has studied the risks of vaping carts every day for years of decades. Do you want to be the guinea pig for an entire new product category? I don't. https://lnkd.in/gikKckUf
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Newsom fires the latest shot fired in California's war over hemp: https://lnkd.in/gwPGDJ4w
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Oh HEY. 👋 According to the NYT, local news is not dying in SF. As the EIC at SFGATE — SF's most visited media site (and the largest free outlet on the ENTIRE West Coast) — just wanted to say it's true, plus update you on how "not dying" (https://lnkd.in/gpD6wM2b) we are 👇 It’s been 5yrs since SFGATE & San Francisco Chronicle became two separate entities w/ our own independent newsrooms. Since then SFGATE has created 34 new #journalismjobs, more than doubling the size of our staff. In 2022, we got our very own newsroom 😊 The investments we've made have been local — we hired SF's first dumpling columnist, its most diehard Giants fan and coolest East Bay resident — but also statewide. We now have journalists living in 21 different cities across the state. Lots of them are doing deep feature journalism in media deserts, while others are covering huge swaths of CA (The entire Central Coast! All of our national parks!) that normally only see formulaic travel coverage from national outlets parachuting in: https://lnkd.in/g27zApiy We also hired a full-time cannabis editor (Lester Black) to cover the state's pot economy and our first CA editor (Tessa McLean) to cover things like what comes next for CA's malls and the death of the state's historic piers: https://lnkd.in/gBa6Mmiw Plus we launched an entire SoCal Bureau featuring the country's best journalist writing about Disney (Julie Tremaine) and — just this February — added four tremendously talented LA journalists (Farley Elliott Paula Mejía Karen Palmer Erin Rode). We also started covering Hawaii earnestly (thanks to the incomparable Christine Hitt) and RIGHT NOW are in the process of hiring a North Coast editor to write about everything between the Bay Area and the CA-Oregon border. During that ENTIRE 5-year span of editorial independence here SFGATE, we haven't had a single layoff. Zero. So yes, we're 'not dying' in SF, but we've also been quietly growing local news coverage in cities across CA. And, as of today, they seem very much alive as well.
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🚨 JOB NEWS 🚨 SFGATE is expanding again! We just opened 2 new roles! 🌲 North Coast Contributing Editor (20hrs per week, $45K-$50K) ✍ Contributing News Editor (20hrs per week, $45K-$50K) This expands our newsroom to 55 journalists, we've created 34 new jobs since 2021 and had 0 layoffs during that span. Let's start with the North Coast Contributing Editor! This is such a cool role! We're looking for a contributing editor (20hrs/wk) to cover the coast and far north of the state generally. We want a couple features a week and are looking for writers with deep ties to the area who can challenge readers’ understanding of a place they love to visit or already live in. We want locals (or near-locals), who understand the history of where they live, and the implications of changes to it. They should be able to provide an expert's perspective on these places that readers can't get elsewhere. And we want someone who can shine a light on an important place to a community that otherwise doesn't get a lot of shine. What about the Contributing News Editor? Glad you asked: We write lots of very ambitious pieces at SFGATE and those ambitious pieces need a steady hand guiding them throughout the editing process — whether they're investigations, FOIA deep dives or about a sensitive topic. If you're super comfortable navigating all of those and have a bunch of writers who will be waiting in line to talk about how you’re the best editor they've ever had, you should apply. These hires will give us 43 incredibly talented journalists providing best in class coverage of the Bay Area, but also 12 others covering the rest of CA + Hawaii, including in a lot of complete media deserts. Join us. https://lnkd.in/grGcM4B7
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Last year, I bought a cannabis vape pen in San Francisco that sent me down a rabbit hole with a startling conclusion: Banned pesticides keep showing up in California’s legal weed products, the state government appears to be unable to do much about it, and, most startling, the DCC is currently unable to test for pesticide contamination in some pot products, leaving questions about how, exactly, they’re investigating allegations of contamination.
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Thank you SFGATE for the thoughtful feature. We're excited to bring a fresh take on meaningful travel experiences to Lake Tahoe.
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Climate destruction is overwhelming, but donating hair is rather easy. In my first for SFGATE, I wrote about Matter of Trust, which uses hair mats to clean up bodies of water...and starting to use hair as mulch to help plants grow.
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I was interviewed by SFGATE about my photography and videography I post on Instagram. Beautifully written, this is definitely an highlight of what I hope to make into a full-time career one day. #photography #sonyalpha #sanfrancisco https://lnkd.in/gThBsT8Z