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- The San Francisco Examiner editorial page complains that while that city’s tech employment boom is on the whole a good thing, “this influx of well-paid tech workers also has pushed up rents and made San Francisco profoundly less affordable for people working in service jobs — as well as for The City’s shrinking middle class.”
- At a TechCrunch conference, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee says that he’s addressing those growing socioeconomic gaps with, among other things, the new Bay Area Bike Share program.
- More Examiner: “It is mystifying how anyone could imagine that it will keep struggling residents from leaving The City.”
- Also, when asked at the conference why the city is cracking down on the airport car sharing company FlightCar, Lee pointed out that that’s the (elected) city attorney’s doing.
- Venture capitalist Stuart Ellman walks readers through the incubation of Shake, a mobile app for creating plain English legal agreements.
- Continuing its quest to try providing on-demand everything at least once, Uber is connecting bar goers in parts of the Mission and Lower Haight tonight with on-demand tamales from Virginia Ramos, aka the Tamale Lady.
- Here’s the short, um, film that Airbnb made entirely from user-made six-second Vine videos.
- About that bike lobby: More people have Citi Bike keys than voted for Anthony Weiner. Or, for that matter, now-Republican nominee Joe Lhota.
- It is indeed possible to make a 45-pound Citi Bike do tricks.
- “One of Atlanta’s most chaotic corridors” is getting a bike lane.
- And Michigan is handing out $10,000 grants to get food trucks on the road.
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.