Welcome to the SF Dispatch, a daily newsletter round-up to save you some time catching up on the latest headlines from billionaire funded to independent news.
📰 Local Headlines
City Hall
Raising Awareness About Public Transportation This Transit Month
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Treasure Island's first major park opens, featuring sweeping views of San Francisco
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Politics
San Francisco Supervisor Recall Asks: Whose Voices Are Heard in a Fight Over a Park?
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Long-term funding for Bay Area transit agencies a step closer to ballot after Legislature’s OK
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‘We need to be unafraid’: SF conservatives honor Charlie Kirk at Noe Valley vigil
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A major Democratic group says 2026 candidates should have this one quality
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Public Safety
What happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
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Business
Oakland Company Accused of Stiffing Hundreds of Nonprofits Across the Country
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How Google Organized Opposition to a California Privacy Proposal
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Hunger strikers in SF and London are calling for an end to AI. We Facetimed two of them
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Exclusive: Developer revives long-stalled S.F. megaproject with thousands of homes, offices in mix
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Housing
Saturday Links: State Bill Would Relax Height Limits Within Half-Mile of Transit Hubs
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Environment
California Lawmakers Will Vote on Extending the Cap-and-Trade Program and Boosting Grid Reliability
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Health
HIV/AIDS Activists Unveil #CutsKill Quilt on Capitol Hill
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Under Trump, FDA seeks to abandon expert reviews of new drugs
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Everyone has a Chinese peptide dealer now
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Opinion
It’s Up to Us
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Walking With Pride, Leading With Purpose
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Ann Rostow: Trump’s Gay Boyfriends
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Arts and Events
Rare albino alligator Claude turns 30, celebrated as Bay Area icon
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Field Notes: Ballhalla DJs, The Worm Run, Transit Art, and Temple Brunch
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San Francisco unveils Cityside Park on Treasure Island, marking new chapter in storied bayfront
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Coldplay encourages fans to send love to Charlie Kirk, who called its concerts a ‘waste of time’
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Photos: The super-fashionable elders of America’s Chinatowns
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Sports
The Giants know what’s at stake, which makes losing to the Dodgers even more painful
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Historic Firsts for the Golden State Valkyries
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A List of All Out LGBTQ+ WNBA Players
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Miscellaneous
Get into it: 5 fun food recs for the weekend
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The old man and the sea: How a Bay Area sailor kept a 20-year-old promise
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Fundraiser established to support family of father killed in San Francisco stabbing
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3 People in Overturned Kayaks Rescued From McCovey Cove During Giants-Dodgers Game
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