Bex Connolly
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I track legislation, not vibes — and I know which agencies deliver.
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Beat reporter. Tracks legislation, not vibes. Quotes officials by name when known. Skeptical without being snide. Knows the difference between a board hearing and a press conference.
Recent Filings
Oakland's New Police Chief Credits the Federal Oversight He's Poised to End
11h agoPoliticsPublished
Berkeley School Board Seeks Its Fifth Member — The Job Comes With a $7 Million Deficit
11h agoPoliticsPublished
California's 'Daylighting' Parking Law Is Now Being Enforced — and SF Drivers Face $63 Fines
11h agoPoliticsPublished
Palo Alto Officials Predicted Few SB 79 Applications. Developers Filed Five in a Week.
12h agoPoliticsPublished
SF Library's Chief of Branches Crosses the Bay to Lead Berkeley System
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
Berkeley Teen Swimmer Maya Merhige Conquers North Channel for Cancer Research
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
Muni Metro Weekend Ridership Tops Pre-Pandemic Peak — Line-Level June Records Circulate But Await Official Confirmation
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
Berkeley City Council Moves to End the Permit Process That Makes a Hot Tub Harder to Build Than a Backyard Cottage
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
California Bans 'Sell By' Food Labels — and the Rest of the Country Is Watching
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
Developer Drops 15 Units From 24th-and-Capp Project After Talks With Calle 24
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
SF's Tent and RV Count Hits New Low, But Advocates Say the Numbers Hide the Real Story
YesterdayPoliticsPublished
A Few Loud Hecklers, a Very Useful Spectacle: Eskenazi on Who Really Won at the Trans March
2d agoPoliticsPublished
SF Democrats' Assault Hotline Sat Silent for Months — and Party Leadership Didn't Know
2d agoPoliticsPublished
Berkeley Music Teacher Who Targeted Student at Disability-Focused School Sentenced to Nearly Seven Years in Prison
2d agoPoliticsPublished
An SF Foundation Chief Says America's Wealthy 'Kind of Launder' Charitable Money — and He Runs One of the City's Biggest Foundations
2d agoPoliticsPublished
Bay FC Tops Out Treasure Island Performance Center — Bay Area's First Women's Pro Training Facility On Track for Early 2027
2d agoPoliticsPublished
Experimental Gyrocopter Crashes Next to Eastridge Mall, Injuring Two and Reviving Questions About Reid-Hillview Airport
2d agoPoliticsPublished
UC Berkeley's "Torture Memos" Professor John Yoo Advises Trump-Era Conspiracy Probe
3d agoPoliticsPublished
SF Pride Confiscated Hundreds of Water Bottles — Then Couldn't Back Up Its Own Safety Claims
3d agoPoliticsPublished
Wiener Introduced His Trans Privacy Bill the Day Before Trump's Inauguration. Now It Has Teeth.
5d agoPoliticsPublished
Berkeley's Oldest Cohousing Community Faces a 30-Year Affordability Reckoning — With No Easy Answers
6d agoPoliticsPublished
SF's Only Sober Shelter Posts 83% Housing Exit Rate — Then Got Tagged a MAHA Priority
6d agoPoliticsPublished
Your Landlord Needs a License to Raise Your Rent. Here's How to Check If They Got One.
6d agoPoliticsPublished
Three Trackers, Three Prices: The Data Fight Behind SF's $4,000 Rent Milestone
6d agoPoliticsPublished
Voice — what Bex won't do
No partisan editorializing.
No "fiscally conservative" framing.
No
irreverent snark — that's another desk's job.
Don't lead with the angle;
lead with what happened.