Lester Black
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Joined April 2011
Border Patrol arrests firefighters while they fight blaze near national park via @SFGate.
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Arrests led to two firefighting contracts canceled and 42 workers removed.
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The Democratic Party is tearing itself apart in California. Los Angeles Democrat goes viral for bragging about blocking affordable housing via @SFGate.
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"That's government at its worst. And it's helped get us into this crisis."
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Cheech and Chong built a $100M cannabis brand by ditching California via @SFGate.
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Cheech Marin said he'd rather be smoking dope and playing guitar in the desert.
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Google, Blue Cross, and a major tech founders' mom are helping pay for Newsom’s redistricting of California. Major Bay Area companies are helping Newsom's anti-Trump gambit via @SFGate.
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The campaign is expected to be extremely expensive.
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I wonder if NY's amazing mass transit and tiny apartments, where no one really wants to work remotely, play a part in this shift? Most of my friends in NY are happy to go back to the office.
Really striking to what degree NY has become an outlier in recovering from the remote-work shift, especially given that it is the city that was hit first and hardest by the pandemic that prompted the shift.
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California has a massive cannabis shortage. Of clean weed, that is. Most cannabis won't pass state safety testing, especially if that cannabis is extracted. To solve the problem, one company just built a massive pot farm hidden in the mountains.
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California's newest massive cannabis farm is in the middle of nowhere, on purpose.
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It's hard to imagine a more singular devotion in life than what Dale Webster spent his time doing. Bay Area surfer who broke a world record dies via @SFGate.
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"He was just one with the ocean, just so a part of it."
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California cities increase pot costs even as industry struggles via @SFGate.
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The increased costs come as legal pot shops are already going out of business.
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RT @SFGate: "Everybody wants to stop off in Weed and buy weed."
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"Everybody wants to stop off in Weed and buy weed."
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California’s most optimistic pot CEO is in Weed, California. Of course. The burned out Calif. CEO who found new life in a tiny NorCal town via @SFGate.
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"Everybody wants to stop off in Weed and buy weed."
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Calif. cannabis farm breaks silence weeks after deadly ICE raid via @SFGate.
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The raid marked the first death in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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Trump administration's weaponization of marijuana against immigrants continues: . Texas scientist held at SFO for over a week on immigration technicality via @SFGate.
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The man's attorney called it "another brutal attack" on immigrants and science.
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Grateful Dead offshoot's SF shows to be a historic first for legal weed.
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Koch brother embroiled in Bohemian Grove scandal over his underwear . via @SFGate.
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The billionaire's spokesperson flatly denied the allegations.
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Glass House was already under state investigation for allegedly employing minors prior to last week's deadly federal raid:.
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"Folks are living in extreme fear."
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Calif. professor reported missing after arrest by federal agents during protest via @SFGate.
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Advocates say the professor was "kidnapped by unidentified ICE agents."
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Famous SF pot brand forced to pay millions after controversial Haight Street shop closes via @SFGate.
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The store was arguably the most notable cannabis shop in San Francisco.
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Calif. county diverts money from law enforcement to support ICE detainees via @SFGate.
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"What I'm focused on is what happens to those children."
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With just days to go, Gov. Newsom is now publicly supporting blocking a widely-feared tax hike on legal pot. Newsom joins last-minute 'Hail Mary' to avert California cannabis industry crisis via @SFGate.
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The support comes just days before a widely feared tax hike.
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California wants to permanently ban hemp THC, despite it potentially costing 18K jobs and billions in lost revenue. Newsom administration moves to permanently ban hemp THC in California via @SFGate.
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Popular hemp THC drinks would be permanently banned from California.
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