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What Happened to the Chronicle's Paywall?

By Rachel Swan
East Bay Express | February 9, 2012
The San Francisco newspaper has quietly stopped charging for stories on its website.
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Tags: San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area News Group

East Bay Express

If one mayor represented all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, that person's 2.5 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. And just as these East Bay counties are very different from the rest of the San Francisco...
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