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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco's people and beauty...

A recent surge in home break-ins and brazen shoplifting has some San Francisco residents feeling that the city they fell in love with is in decline.

Politically liberal San Franciscans are used to living cheek by jowl with open drug use, feces-infested streets and petty crime. But a surge in home break-ins and brazen shoplifting has some residents feeling that the city they fell in love with is in decline. Caitlin Foster is among San Francisco

Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco's people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago. But after repeatedly clearing away used needles, other drug paraphernalia and human feces outside the bar she manages, and too many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the city has soured.

Parent group proposes eliminating school board elections in favor of appointment-based system Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail The exterior of the San Francisco Unified School District offices on Friday, March 13, 2020. Prolonged remote learning has spurned some parents to propose new methods for appointing SFUSD board members.Doug Zimmerman/SFGATE SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) A group of San Francisco Unified School District parents, frustrated that schools remain closed for in-person learning, proposed on Monday doing away with elections for Board of Education commissioners and instead movi...