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PUBLISHER'S VIEW from page 2 get out of your head, leave your apartment, put yourself out there, don’t take yourself so seriously. But it has its limits. Sometimes, there’s no one to play with, or it’s icky outside, or you just don’t know how to be with other people, or they don’t know how to be with you. Then what do you do?

In some ways coping with, defeating, surrendering to loneliness is the central question of today’s harried, hurried, mean, inauthentic America. How to be solitary, or even with others, and not be lonely. How not to be seduced by remedies that’re more harmful than good, to ourselves and to others. How to guard against isolation turning to fear or anger, especially as (social) media’s strident, alienating whispers become fiercer. A challenge each of us must face. Together, alone.

SHORT CUTS from page 2 decorating the pink melaleuca tree with hanging ornaments and hosting ongoing neighborhood gatherings.” CGS, under the aegis of Greening Projects, a Citybased nonprofit that creates sustainable spaces, hopes to raise funds to add benches and “more grown-up seating” beyond the five large “Soma Stones” at the median’s southern end, which SFPW provided in 2017. It’s also applied for an Urban Watershed Stewardship Grant sponsored by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission . “If we receive the grant, we’d like to build infiltration gardens and bioswales, to pool and transport stormwater. Such hardscaping helps filter water runoff from the median before entering into the storm drains… is ecologically beneficial,” said Blum.

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Hardware and telecommunications company Cisco renewed a seven-year, 247,000-square-foot, office lease at 500 Terry A Francois Boulevard. It’s by far the biggest San Francisco let so far this year, at a time when tech giants are shrinking offices and the City’s commercial vacancy rate has surged to a record 29 percent. Cisco laid off more than 4,000 workers last fall, but said it’d keep hiring and maintain a staff of around 83,300 people… Seven tenants are moving into Pier 70’s

Building 12: Standard Deviant Brewing, Breadbelly bakery, custom sneaker designer Studio Duskus, florist Marbled Mint, design studio Prowl Studio, alternative motorcycle dealer Scuderia, paper artist Zai Divecha and metalsmith and maker Emi Grannis Each will open at different times throughout the next year. Building 12 was constructed 82 years ago as part of World War II shipbuilding. The football-field sized steel structure has undergone extensive restoration by Brookfield

STIs from page 3 to 3,859 in 2022, a 1.1 percent increase for the year. Fifty-five of those tested were HIV positive in 2022 compared to 39 positives in 2021, a 1.4 percent rise. The San Francisco Department of Health didn’t respond to interview requests.

According to Eric Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Innerbody, a health and wellness company, “the CDC has noticed a concerning upward trend in the amounts of STD’s nationwide over the past eight years. At the tail end of the pandemic cities have been dealing with a multitude of issues that have contributed to their rising number of STD infections.”

Southern cities have experienced the greatest increases in STI rates, particularly in states with little healthcare spending. The national average for healthcare expenditures is $10,191

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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR LANDLORDS per person. The states with the highest STI rates – Mississippi, Tennessee, and South Carolina – are ranked among the lowest in healthcare spending in the country. In 2021 Memphis, Tennessee had the uppermost STI rate, 1,460 cases per 100,000 residents, significantly greater than San Francisco’s 1,002 cases per 100,000 residents that year.

San Francisco landlords now need a license before imposing annual and banked rent increases on tenants subject to the City’s rent control laws. To obtain or renew a license, property owners must report certain information about their units into the San Francisco Housing Inventory Portal each year. Property owners can submit their Housing Inventory information to the Rent Board in a few ways, but are strongly encouraged to complete the process online at portal.sfrb.org. Once the system accepts the submission, a rent increase license will be automatically generated and readily available. Owners can also deliver a paper Housing Inventory form to 25 Van Ness Ave., Suite 320, San Francisco, CA 94102 or to rentboard.inventory@sfgov. org. Assistance is available by calling 311 or emailing rentboard.inventory@sfgov.org. Visit sf.gov/rentboard for more information.

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The San Francisco “Department of Health has made it a priority to increase public awareness through education in its neighborhood clinics and hospitals,” said Rodriguez. “There has also been an increase in access to treatment and testing throughout the City…Although San Francisco does a pretty good job with reporting, there are some issues with the homeless population and the accuracy of documented infections, because they are not always seeking regular testing or treatment.”

SFDH recently issued a study that found ”doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) significantly reduces the acquisition of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis.” The report, which detailed the results of a random trial conducted by SFDH, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and the University of Washington, focused on men having sex with men and transgender women. It recommended a 200 milligram dose of doxycycline taken between 24 and 72 hours after sex to prevent STIs.

According to the SFDH “this is the first biomedical tool to be shown effective and well-tolerated…community awareness is growing, and many SF providers are prescribing doxy-PEP frothier at risk patients.

STOLEN from page 9 thieves broke the ignition, the hood, and stole parts.

Between January and April 2023, there were 1,674 car thefts in San Francisco, a 6.4 percent decline from the same period last year when they were 1,788.

Hicks started a GoFundMe to help the family replenish their belongings, raising about $7,600, not enough to cover refurnishing their entire home. Borbon and Felbermayr decided to close the campaign, moved by the amount already received.

“We are thankful for the donations,” Borbon said. “It could have been nothing and we lost everything and that was it but instead the community was so nice to donate to us. We’ve read everything that’s come in and it’s very nice, very heartfelt, and overwhelming.”

Borbon and Felbermayr moved to San Francisco to work for Daily Driver in 2019.

Hicks and Jablons “welcomed us with open arms,” Borbon said. “They felt like family and it’s why it was so hard to move down to L.A. but we wanted to be closer to my family. One hundred million thanks to [Hicks and Jablons]. Because of them, we had a great experience at Daily Driver and they introduced us to Potrero Hill. We’re saddened we had to leave them and the community but they gave us a wonderful experience being in San Francisco.”

Hicks said, “It really seems hard to be living in SF right now, and many share that sentiment. The donations from friends, neighbors, and strangers restored much of the belief that the City is mostly filled with kind-hearted people.”

Kansas Street resident, Jai Walthew, 13, graduates from Saint John School this month. "I am excited to attend Riordan High School" in the fall, he said.

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