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📰 Local Headlines
City Hall
Supervisors OK Taking a Wrecking Ball to Vaillancourt Fountain, Rejecting Last-Chance Appeal
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San Francisco Expands Child Care Subsidies to Tackle Affordability Issues
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San Francisco mayor unveils plans to make the city more family-friendly
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S.F moves to combine building inspection, planning and permitting into one department
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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to deliver State of the City address
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Play BINGO along with Mission Local for Mayor Lurie’s first ‘State of the City’ address
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SF Mayor Daniel Lurie to deliver first State of the City address
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Politics
Political Notebook: SF House race forum highlights HIV issues
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Should I sign that petition? A handy guide to the clipboards you are seeing on the streets
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Federal Judges Uphold California’s New Congressional Maps Favoring Democrats
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‘Cars Back on the Great Highway’ Crowd at It Again, Vows Another Do-Over Ballot Measure on November 3
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Who’s leaving, who’s staying: The SF Standard’s billionaire tax tracker
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Buckle Up: The Political Fights Set to Define California in 2026
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Criminal Justice
Many California Prisoners Get a Second Chance. A Declining Parole Rate Shows That’s No Guarantee
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SF sheriff responds to letter about female, trans strip search
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California Advocates Fearful as Supreme Court Weighs Bans of Trans Student Athletes
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John Beam murder case on hold pending competency evaluation
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California Investigates Elon Musk’s AI Company After ‘Avalanche’ of Complaints About Sexual Content
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Attorneys for San Jose Family Accused In 2021 Exorcism Death of Three-Year-Old Claim Racial and Religious Bias
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‘Grandpa Vicha' murder case: Defense offers detailed closing statement
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Public Safety
No REAL ID? TSA Will Charge You $45 at the Airport Starting Feb. 1
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Oakland Police Raid Suspected Gambling Den, Find Gambling, But Also Lots of Dynamite
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Oakland Speed Cameras Are Online, Will Begin Issuing Warnings
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Santa Cruz the First in California to Terminate Its Contract With Flock Safety
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S F Police Seek Person Interest Attack Man Dog
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Immigration
Bay Area Congressman Describes “Horrific” Conditions At ICE Detention Center
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Attorney General Rob Bonta Says if Trump Ends Sanctuary City Funding, He Will Lose
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Alameda County Considers ICE-Free Zones Amid Trump Immigration Crackdown
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Labor
Trump Eliminates 157 Jobs at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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Patients, staff say ‘holes are everywhere’ in SF VA after cuts
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‘Our School Felt Sick’: Former Staff Allege Turmoil at Berkley Maynard Academy
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Business
California Now Investigating xAI Over Grok's Non-Consensual Deepfake Imagery
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SF tourism official says city is building on 2025's progress with latest conference
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Conference in San Francisco highlights success of women's health care investments
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Culture
Mission Buzz: Desperately seeking cemita bread
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Environment
Meet The Locals: Yarrow
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Human Rights
How the Bay Area’s Gay Bars Became a Battleground for LGBTQ+ Rights in the 1950s
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Health
Deadly bacterial outbreak discovered at Berkeley homeless encampment
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Veterans in the Bay Area protest changes to the VA health care system
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Education
As Vanderbilt takes over CCA, students ask WTF?
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Opinion
Guest Opinion: Forced outing, free speech, and the students caught in between
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Editorial: Abolish ICE
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The US fails again to fix the real causes underlying poor health
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‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
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Federal Court Says Prop 50 Gerrymander Is Good to Go, Cites Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Maps
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JP Morgan Conference Goes Full Woke and DEI, Women Executives in Pink Suits Flash-Mob Union Square
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Negative space
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Kawakami: Shanahan’s longevity, Purdy is a bargain, and more 49ers status checks
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Arts and Events
News Briefs: SF to hold MLK Day march
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Guy Fieri Hosting 'World's Largest Tailgate' on Super Bowl Sunday at Cow Palace; Noah Kahan Doing Warfield Show
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Formerly Incarcerated Performers Headline Berkeley Rep’s Main Stage
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BIG WEEK: Honoring MLK, SF Sketchfest, SF Art Week, Bob Weir and Claude tributes…
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Miscellaneous
Humpday Headlines: BART Has Another Power Issue
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Sponsored: Caterer for Small Birthday Party Wanted
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California’s Highway 1 Fully Opens Through Big Sur Years After Major Landslides
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Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 Fully Back Open In Big Sur, After Three Years
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Lawsuits, billionaires, and Sade: An Atherton mansion’s long road to a $45M sale
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