Bay Area's Wealthiest Commuters Have Quietly Left Transit. That's a Problem for November.
New Census and operator survey data confirms what regulars have sensed on the platforms: Bay Area public transit has…
SF Archdiocese's $395 Million Abuse Settlement Forces the Transparency Cordileone Long Refused
The San Francisco Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle roughly 530 clergy sex abuse claims — the…
Before Wiener and Lurie, There Was Ed Lee: Trans March Has Been Pushing Out SF Politicians Since 2016
State Sen. Scott Wiener is at least the third San Francisco elected official to be driven out of the Trans March at…
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
Joseph Shapiro stepped out of Sunday brunch in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood on June 7 and felt a fist hit him…
Mayor Lurie Called the Trans March Confrontation 'Antisemitic.' The Man Who Filmed It Says That's Wrong.
Five people were arrested and two SFPD officers were injured during the San Francisco Trans March on June 27 — but the…
June 29, 2026
SF's Left Isn't Just Losing — It's Being Structurally Erased
As New York City's democratic socialists swept through the June 23 primary, San Francisco's progressives watched with…
Friends of Sunset Dunes Sue to Block Fourth Ballot Attempt, Alleging Pro‑Road Petition is Built on 'Misinformation'
The nonprofit behind Sunset Dunes filed a lawsuit Friday to block what would be the fourth ballot attempt to reopen the…
Bay Area Advocates Say Supreme Court TPS Ruling Is 'Ethnic Cleansing by Another Name' — Fremont's Afghans Have Already Seen the Playbook
**The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Mullin v.
At SF Pride's Human Rights Summit, Dolores Huerta Warns of 'Regime of Fascism' and Calls for Intersectional Resistance
The day before a million people descended on San Francisco for Pride weekend, Dolores Huerta told a room at the…
Oakland Schools Claim First Balanced Budget in 22 Years. Their Finance Chief Was Pushed Out to Make It Happen.
Oakland Unified's school board approved a tentative budget this week that its president called the district's first…
June 28, 2026
Two Months In, SF's RESET Center Counts 600 People as a Win. Advocates Say Nobody's Tracking What Happens Next.
San Francisco's RESET sobering center has processed roughly 600 people since opening on Sixth Street in May, and…
Fox Corp's $22 Billion Roku Buy Gives Murdoch a Front Door Into 100 Million Homes — Including California's
Fox Corporation's $22 billion acquisition of San Jose-based Roku will hand Rupert Murdoch something he has never…
Community Walks Lake Merritt for Missing Oakland Coffee Shop Owner, Three Months In
About 50 friends, family members and supporters walked around Lake Merritt last Friday in a show of solidarity for Amy…
Newsom Wants a Federal Billionaires' Tax — While Blocking the One That Could Actually Pass
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a sweeping national agenda to tax the ultra-wealthy last Friday, calling for a…
SF's Required Jail Oversight Committee Has Never Met. Now a Grand Jury Says the System Is at a 'Breaking Point.'
A year-long civil grand jury investigation has found San Francisco's jails overcrowded, dangerously understaffed, and…
June 28, 2026
California's Doctors and School Boards Are Helping Billionaires Kill a Healthcare Funding Measure
A California labor union defied pressure from Gov.
SF's Unemployment Rate Is the Best in California. The City Still Has 40,000 Fewer Jobs Than 2019.
San Francisco's unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in May — fourth consecutive monthly drop, second-lowest in California —…
The Law That Made the Marina Safeway Tower Possible May Also Kill It
The state housing statute that fast-tracked a proposed 25-story tower at the Marina Safeway site may have contained its…
California Forever Hired the Democrats Who Built CEQA to Help Dismantle It for Their New City
The tech billionaire-backed plan to build a Bay Area city from scratch has found a new route around local opposition —…
Contra Costa Has Found a Dengue‑Capable Mosquito Five Times Since 2022. Now Officials Want to Fight It with Bacteria.
Health officials in Contra Costa County are weighing a plan to release thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes into…
June 27, 2026
SF Budget Wraps Before Sundown — and That's Not Entirely Good News
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors finished their annual budget fight at 6:30 p.m.
SF's Transfer Tax Revenue Faces Twin Threats as Wicks' Backroom Deal Collapses
A California Assembly bill designed to kill an anti-tax ballot measure has instead united progressive housing advocates…
SF's Glen Canyon Is Officially Low‑Risk for Wildfire. A New Grand Jury Report Says That Might Be Wrong.
San Francisco's Civil Grand Jury has released a report warning that Glen Canyon Park — a 66-acre urban greenspace in…
SF Cartoon Art Museum Curator Fired After Berkeley Arrest for Filming Party Guests — Including Children — in Bathroom
Andrew Farago, a curator at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, was arrested on 20 counts of invasion of privacy after…
A New Lawsuit Says Walmart, 7‑Eleven, and BP Used AI to Fix California Gas Prices. Bay Area Drivers Already Know What That Costs.
A California antitrust lawsuit claims that fuel retailers including Walmart, 7-Eleven, and BP used artificial…
June 27, 2026
Scott Wiener wants 15 debates. The Trans March wanted him gone.
The front-runner in the race to replace Nancy Pelosi spent the week asking for more stages to stand on.
SF General Fixed Its ER. UCSF, Sitting on an $809M Surplus, Let Its Get Worse.
San Francisco's busiest and most stretched emergency department — Zuckerberg SF General, a trauma center serving…
California Invokes 60‑Year Farmland Law to Stop ICE From Building While the Lawsuit Is Still Pending
With construction actively underway on a 24.5-acre site outside Gilroy, California's Attorney General and Santa Clara…
The AI Boom Built Cupertino. Now It's Costing Apple Shareholders $250 Billion.
Apple's stock fell nearly 6% Thursday — its worst single-day performance in more than a year — after the Cupertino…
For 2½ Years, SF's Own Monitors Flagged HomeRise. Women Inside Say a Case Manager's Abuse Went Unchecked Anyway.
San Francisco kept tens of millions in annual funding flowing to HomeRise — one of the city's largest operators of…
June 26, 2026
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