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Before Wiener and Lurie, There Was Ed Lee: Trans March Has Been Pushing Out SF Politicians Since 2016

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State Sen. Scott Wiener is at least the third San Francisco elected official to be driven out of the Trans March at…

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Punched in the Castro, No Arrest Made: A Gay Retiree Who Moved to SF for Safety Has Been Attacked Twice and Is Now Asking Whether to Leave

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Joseph Shapiro stepped out of Sunday brunch in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood on June 7 and felt a fist hit him…

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Mayor Lurie Called the Trans March Confrontation 'Antisemitic.' The Man Who Filmed It Says That's Wrong.

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Five people were arrested and two SFPD officers were injured during the San Francisco Trans March on June 27 — but the…

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SF's Left Isn't Just Losing — It's Being Structurally Erased

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As New York City's democratic socialists swept through the June 23 primary, San Francisco's progressives watched with…

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Friends of Sunset Dunes Sue to Block Fourth Ballot Attempt, Alleging Pro-Road Petition is Built on 'Misinformation'

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The nonprofit behind Sunset Dunes filed a lawsuit Friday to block what would be the fourth ballot attempt to reopen the…

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Bay Area Advocates Say Supreme Court TPS Ruling Is 'Ethnic Cleansing by Another Name' — Fremont's Afghans Have Already Seen the Playbook

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The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Mullin v.

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At SF Pride's Human Rights Summit, Dolores Huerta Warns of 'Regime of Fascism' and Calls for Intersectional Resistance

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The day before a million people descended on San Francisco for Pride weekend, Dolores Huerta told a room at the…

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Oakland Schools Claim First Balanced Budget in 22 Years. Their Finance Chief Was Pushed Out to Make It Happen.

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Oakland Unified's school board approved a tentative budget this week that its president called the district's first…

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Two Months In, SF's RESET Center Counts 600 People as a Win. Advocates Say Nobody's Tracking What Happens Next.

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San Francisco's RESET sobering center has processed roughly 600 people since opening on Sixth Street in May, and…

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Fox Corp's $22 Billion Roku Buy Gives Murdoch a Front Door Into 100 Million Homes — Including California's

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Fox Corporation's $22 billion acquisition of San Jose-based Roku will hand Rupert Murdoch something he has never…

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Community Walks Lake Merritt for Missing Oakland Coffee Shop Owner, Three Months In

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About 50 friends, family members and supporters walked around Lake Merritt last Friday in a show of solidarity for Amy…

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Newsom Wants a Federal Billionaires' Tax — While Blocking the One That Could Actually Pass

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a sweeping national agenda to tax the ultra-wealthy last Friday, calling for a…

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SF's Required Jail Oversight Committee Has Never Met. Now a Grand Jury Says the System Is at a 'Breaking Point.'

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A year-long civil grand jury investigation has found San Francisco's jails overcrowded, dangerously understaffed, and…

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California's Doctors and School Boards Are Helping Billionaires Kill a Healthcare Funding Measure

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A California labor union defied pressure from Gov.

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SF's Unemployment Rate Is the Best in California. The City Still Has 40,000 Fewer Jobs Than 2019.

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San Francisco's unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in May — fourth consecutive monthly drop, second-lowest in California —…

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The Law That Made the Marina Safeway Tower Possible May Also Kill It

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The state housing statute that fast-tracked a proposed 25-story tower at the Marina Safeway site may have contained its…

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California Forever Hired the Democrats Who Built CEQA to Help Dismantle It for Their New City

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The tech billionaire-backed plan to build a Bay Area city from scratch has found a new route around local opposition —…

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Contra Costa Has Found a Dengue-Capable Mosquito Five Times Since 2022. Now Officials Want to Fight It with Bacteria.

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Health officials in Contra Costa County are weighing a plan to release thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes into…

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SF Budget Wraps Before Sundown — and That's Not Entirely Good News

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors finished their annual budget fight at 6:30 p.m.

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SF's Transfer Tax Revenue Faces Twin Threats as Wicks' Backroom Deal Collapses

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A California Assembly bill designed to kill an anti-tax ballot measure has instead united progressive housing advocates…

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SF's Glen Canyon Is Officially Low-Risk for Wildfire. A New Grand Jury Report Says That Might Be Wrong.

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San Francisco's Civil Grand Jury has released a report warning that Glen Canyon Park — a 66-acre urban greenspace in…

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SF Cartoon Art Museum Curator Fired After Berkeley Arrest for Filming Party Guests — Including Children — in Bathroom

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Andrew Farago, a curator at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, was arrested on 20 counts of invasion of privacy after…

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A New Lawsuit Says Walmart, 7-Eleven, and BP Used AI to Fix California Gas Prices. Bay Area Drivers Already Know What That Costs.

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A California antitrust lawsuit claims that fuel retailers including Walmart, 7-Eleven, and BP used artificial…

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Scott Wiener wants 15 debates. The Trans March wanted him gone.

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The front-runner in the race to replace Nancy Pelosi spent the week asking for more stages to stand on.

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SF General Fixed Its ER. UCSF, Sitting on an $809M Surplus, Let Its Get Worse.

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San Francisco's busiest and most stretched emergency department — Zuckerberg SF General, a trauma center serving…

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California Invokes 60-Year Farmland Law to Stop ICE From Building While the Lawsuit Is Still Pending

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With construction actively underway on a 24.5-acre site outside Gilroy, California's Attorney General and Santa Clara…

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The AI Boom Built Cupertino. Now It's Costing Apple Shareholders $250 Billion.

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Apple's stock fell nearly 6% Thursday — its worst single-day performance in more than a year — after the Cupertino…

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For 2½ Years, SF's Own Monitors Flagged HomeRise. Women Inside Say a Case Manager's Abuse Went Unchecked Anyway.

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San Francisco kept tens of millions in annual funding flowing to HomeRise — one of the city's largest operators of…

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A Silver SUV in the Castro. A Gay Bar Smashed Twice in Vallejo. The Bay Area's Pride Weekend Arrives Under a Cloud.

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In the ten days before San Francisco's largest Pride celebration in years, anti-LGBTQ incidents have piled up across…

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