City Hall
Smart trash bins in San Francisco's Tenderloin to stick around
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San Jose sets up surveillance cameras to crack down on illegal dumping
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Muni will beef up morning rush hour service on some downtown bus lines
Muni will be making changes to some downtown serving bus lines.
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Politics
California’s Political Maps Are Drawn Independently. Will Newsom Change That?
When Jeanne Raya joined California’s first independent redistricting commission in 2010, she felt emboldened — this was the opportunity for a citizen-led group to do what she viewed as important work, free of partisan politics.
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Here’s what redistricting in California used to look like: ‘A diabolical masterpiece’
California Gov. Pete Wilson, left, and Assembly Speaker Willie Brown laugh after a budget meeting at the Capitol in Sacramento on July 23, 1992.
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Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
High Speed Rail to Nowhere
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Trump administration considering releasing transcript of DOJ's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell
The Trump administration is considering publicly releasing the transcript of a Justice Department official's two-day interview with Ghislaine Maxwell last month, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News on Tuesday.
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Immigration
A Day in the Life of San José’s Rapid Response Network, Built to Resist ICE Fear
What once was one of the busiest shopping plazas in San José is now a much quieter place. At Placita Tropicana — located on the corner of Story and King roads — quinceañera dresses still sparkle, pupusas still sizzle and pan dulce is baked fresh every morning.
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Meet the Community Members Behind Santa Clara County’s ICE Rapid Response Network
In the South Bay, calls to a community-led Rapid Response Network have increased as the network fights back against misinformation around Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. Meet the community members on the other end of the line.
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Court orders UC system to rethink policy against hiring undocumented students
On Tuesday, the court said UC’s policy against hiring most undocumented students “discriminates based on immigration status” and may violate California’s employment law.
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Labor
Stanford University Lays Off 363 Employees, Citing Trump Cuts
Stanford University is laying off hundreds of employees as part of sweeping budget reductions forced by federal policies championed by the Trump administration, according to documents filed by the school.
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Unionized Berkeley REI Workers Get Pay Raises After Labor Board Alleged They Were Shut Out
Following a years-long organizing effort, some workers at a Berkeley REI store are set to get retroactive pay raises and bonuses as part of a labor deal with two unions representing workers at 11 stores across the country.
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Opinion
OPINION: San Francisco needs to take disaster warning a lot more seriously
When torrential rains swept through Kerr County, Texas this summer, the Guadalupe River surged 26 feet, and at least 100 people died, many of them children.
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Housing
Letters we answer: Why aren’t cities fighting back against Wiener’s buildathon?
To the Editor: Thanks for your piece today about the Small Business Commission. I have a couple of questions about this whole building thing that I’m hoping you could cover.
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What it costs to rent an average 1-bedroom apartment in the Bay Area
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Arts and Events
Concerts at Golden Gate Park: What it’s like to live nearby
San Francisco resident Susan walks past the Shakedown Makers Market along 20th Avenue at Irving Street with shopping bags, the day after the final Dead and Company show, on Monday, Aug. 4.
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Forget sleepaway camp. This summer, these local teens made a film
A line stretched up Jackson Street, all the way to Grant Avenue from the Great Star theater on Monday night for the premiere of “THE JAR,” a film made by 71 local teens in a four-week summer camp for young filmmakers. “I threatened all of San Francisco,” one parent joked, “You better show up to this.”
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Is Algospeak Coming for Us?
Social media creators started using words like “unalive” and “seggs” to dodge algorithmic filters that might suppress “inappropriate” content. But these workarounds aren’t staying online. They’re leaking into real life — like last year, when the Seattle Museum of Pop Culture explained on a placard that Kurt Cobain “unalived” himself.
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Comic Book Artist Gives Back to His Richmond District Neighbors
By Amiya Seetharam
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Best Bay Area Events 8/5-8/25
This Life by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor
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Thinking outside (and above and around) the gender box at Fringe Fest
In true underground DIY spirit (and very reflective of our moment), Exit Theatre‘s annual independent 15-play thespianic onslaught Fringe Festival (Fri/8-August 24) offers everything from “I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Going to Take It Just a Little Bit Longer” to “Due To an Unforeseen Apocalypse This Will Be Our Final Performance”—with everything from parlor seances and generational trauma to frenzied improv and voices of the formerly incarcerated in between.
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30 Years After His Death, A Reflection On Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia’s Political Legacy
This week marks 30 years since the death of Grateful Dead frontman and San Francisco native Jerry Garcia. Despite Garcia’s disdain for government and politics, he navigated his band through the counterculture revolution of the 1960s and had a remarkable influence on American culture.
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Education
The Bay’s Fastest Growing Language You’ve Probably Never Heard of
Mam is one of the fastest growing languages in the East Bay — Oakland Unified School District reported over 1,100 students speak Mam at home — and its speakers are mostly working-class migrants from Guatemala and parts of Mexico. Many significant fightbacks by workers have included a vast diversity of people who speak different languages and bring to the struggle diverse criticism of capitalism. To understand Mam and its background, I sat down with Javier Armas, author of Mam History: Oakland Notes on the History of the Mayan-Mam Language.
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Environment
Judge Blocks FEMA From Diverting Funds From Landmark Disaster Preparedness Program
A district judge in Massachusetts has granted a request from California Attorney General Rob Bonta temporarily barring the Federal Emergency Management Agency from redirecting money from a landmark program designed to help states prepare for and avoid disasters.
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Gifford Fire Grows to 82,600 Acres In Southern California, Threatening Over 800 Structures
The massive Gifford Fire in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties is now on track to be one of the largest wildfires in recent fire seasons in California, and is just 7% contained as of Tuesday.
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Health
‘Dangerous’: How a Top Civil Rights Attorney Describes Attack on Trans Health Care
In recent weeks, the Bay Area’s trans community has experienced a series of painful political setbacks, following a wave of backlash across the country.
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A ‘public medicine chest’ grows by I-280
Tucked into the southern slope of Bernal Hill and shadowed by the traffic of I-280, Alemany Farm is home to the largest urban agricultural site in San Francisco — and medicinal herb garden.
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Bay Area company's glasses designed to increase independence for visually impaired people
A Bay Area company believes a little glass and some cutting-edge technology could offer a new kind of world view to visually impaired people.
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Public Safety
Six-year-old twins freed from a ‘human-size cage.’ Dad says it’s a misunderstanding
The voice on the police scanner was alarmed. It said a Child Protective Services worker had found two children locked in a cage in a SoMa apartment.
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S.F. woman found with stolen goods at Livermore outlets, police say
Police said they arrested a 38-year-old woman at the San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore on Monday after finding stolen merchandise inside of a stolen U-Haul van.
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Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire in Benicia Shuts Down Many Lanes of I-680
Image: Sara Barron via Facebook
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Sports
How the Giants evaluate the 7 prospects they acquired at the trade deadline
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Miscellaneous
Santa Clara dog park remains closed after dogs fall ill
A popular South Bay dog park remains closed indefinitely as more dog owners are coming forward to say their pet became sick after a visit there.
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‘Pet Pix’: Aldous and Tivoli, Kanchi and Torta, Kimbo and Polly, Hazel, Katia, Kelce, Lilikoi, Lola, Max, Mischa, Nala, Petunia, Princess, Reggie, Rex
Send up to three photos of your pet to [email protected] for consideration for “Pet Pix.” Please include your pet’s name.
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‘Then and Now’: Coliseum Theatre
Below: The former theater has been converted to condominiums. The retail space used to house a Walgreens but is currently unoccupied. Photo by Jillian Regan.
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Justin Bieber shows off wife Hailey and baby Jack in new music video
Justin Bieber’s latest music video features appearances by his wife, Hailey Bieber, and their baby boy, Jack, who will celebrate his first birthday this month.
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Bald eagles spotted settling in Piedmont neighborhood
An East Bay neighborhood is buzzing with excitement after bald eagles have settled into a tall eucalyptus tree in Piedmont.
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Kelley Mack, ‘9-1-1' and ‘The Walking Dead' actress, dead at 33
Originally appeared on E! Online
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The Coachella for tech interns is back — and this time, it’s all business
On a stage flanked by two large banks of near-blinding light, Adam Guild, CEO of restaurant software startup Owner, stood in front of hundreds of college students paying rapt attention to his every word.
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Calaveras Fire: Crews respond to 2-alarm blaze in Sunol
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