San José's Police Auditor Quits Abruptly — the Seventh to Cycle Through a Watchdog Office With No Teeth San José's independent police auditor will retire at the end of the month.
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Year Two, Same Question: SFUSD's Maria Su Still Won't Give a Date for School Closures Superintendent Maria Su opened the San Francisco Unified School District's new year with a balanced budget and a…
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Five Months After Calling It 'Too Dangerous,' the FAA Restores a Version of Parallel Landings at SFO Beginning Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration started running a new "staggered parallel landings" procedure…
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Lurie Cuts the Ribbon on SoMa's $62M Gene Friend Rec Center — the Showpiece of His 'Family' Agenda The single basketball court that SoMa squeezed into a concrete bunker in 1990 is gone.
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SFMTA's 'Fare Day Out' Is the Friendly Face of a $134 Enforcement Push — Even as Its Own Citations Fell by Half San Francisco transit workers in bright vests rode the buses and trains this week handing out fare tips, not tickets —…
23h ago Photo: Illustration by The Dissent (Recraft AI) San Benito Probation Worker — Once a Juvenile 'Boys Ranch' Counselor — Charged in TikTok Grooming of a 13‑Year‑Old A 53-year-old Gilroy man who spent 16 years supervising incarcerated youth in San Mateo County — and now works for the…
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Convicted of a Muni Bus Rape Attempt, He Was Already a Registered‑Failed Sex Offender on Probation A San Francisco jury has convicted Dasan Warsaialem Brown of trying to rape a lone woman on a late-night Muni bus last…
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AIPAC Money and Dueling FEC Complaints Upend the Race to Replace Swalwell A week out from the Aug. 18 special election to fill Eric Swalwell's East Bay congressional seat, more than $5 million…
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Oakland Releases Body‑Cam Footage and Finally Names the Man Its Officers Killed Near Fruitvale A month after a homeless advocate sued to force Oakland police to say whom they killed on July 13, the department…
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A Dishwasher and a Class Action: SF's Elite Battery Club Is Sued by Two of Its Own Workers The Battery — the invitation-only Jackson Square social club whose roughly 5,000 members pay $2,400 a year to mingle in…
23h ago Photo: Illustration by The Dissent (Recraft AI) Lurie Brands Prop I a 'Slush Fund' — Backed by the Police and Fire Unions He Just Gave Raises Mayor Daniel Lurie has come out against Proposition I, the November ballot measure that would steer San Francisco's…
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Magnitude 4.1 Earthquake Strikes Near San Leandro A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck just north of San Leandro at 8:30 a.m.
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The Controller Just Priced Out Prop G — and Both Sides Claim They Won San Francisco's first official cost estimate for reopening the Upper Great Highway to weekday cars landed Monday at…
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Woman dies after fire in Fremont apartment building on Irvington Avenue A woman died after a fire broke out in the shared ground-floor hallway of a Fremont apartment building Wednesday…
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SF's City Attorney Became a Tech CEO's Takedown Notice — Then Settled for $45,000 San Francisco's chief lawyer sent demand letters ordering a journalist and Substack to erase a lawfully published story…
Yesterday Photo: Illustration by The Dissent (Recraft AI) A Fifth Avenue 7‑Eleven Has Been Hit Five Times This Year. Oakland's Answer: Officers Still in Training. A crowd of about 20 young people stormed a 7-Eleven at Fifth Avenue and International Boulevard around 4:30 p.m.
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Oakland Sues Mosser Companies Over a 52‑Day Elevator Outage at La Peralta For 52 straight days last summer, both elevators in a six-story downtown Oakland building full of elderly and disabled…
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San Francisco Leads the Country in ICE Ankle Monitors and App Tracking — 20,804 People, Most With No Conviction San Francisco's ICE region now monitors more immigrants through ankle bracelets, smartphone apps and wrist devices than…
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The Criminal Case Stopped at Two Drivers. A San Mateo Jury Put a Quarter of the Blame on the Racer's Parents. A San Mateo County jury on Tuesday awarded $33 million to the twin girls orphaned in a 2022 Redwood City street race —…
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SF Would Pay $825K to a Woman an Officer Slammed Against a Wall Over Jaywalking — If Supervisors Sign Off Sept. 3 San Francisco has agreed to pay $825,000 to Christiana Porter, a single mother who left a jaywalking stop with a…
Yesterday Photo: Illustration by The Dissent (Recraft AI) San Jose Will Spend Until December Writing Data‑Center Rules — While It Keeps Approving Data Centers San Jose opens its first public meeting on data-center standards Aug.
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United's New SFO Nonstop This Fall Lands at an Airport Florida Just Renamed for Trump Starting Nov. 7, United Airlines will fly a seasonal Saturday nonstop between San Francisco International and West Palm…
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SF Waived the Affordable‑Housing Rules to Get Offices Converted. Its Latest Win, 150 Hayes, Has 104 Units and No Required Below‑Market Homes. To coax developers into turning empty downtown offices into apartments, San Francisco cut transfer taxes, rezoned…
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A woman was killed in a hit‑and‑run outside an Oakland church — across from the police Traffic Division A woman in her 40s was struck and killed late Saturday night by a driver who fled the scene at 73rd and Garfield…
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The Report That Was Supposed to Settle SF's Sprinkler Fight Pegged the Cost at $15,000 to $225,000 a Unit — and Settled Nothing The Board of Supervisors' own budget analysts studied what it would cost to force fire sprinklers into 126 aging San…
Yesterday Photo: Illustration by The Dissent (Recraft AI) Haney's Ticket‑Resale Cap Cleared the Assembly. Now It's Stuck on the Senate's 'Suspense File.' A bill by San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney to cap ticket-resale markups at 10% above face value has quietly…
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SF Contractor Couple Charged in Alleged Workers' Comp Fraud Scheme Involving an Injured Worker Prosecutors say a San Francisco construction couple hid years of payroll from the state, then told an employee who lost…
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