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Demian Bulwa
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Director of News, San Francisco Chronicle
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San Francisco’s first ‘equity’ weed store was an epic failure. City Hall insiders may still pocket millions

By @chris-roberts.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
San Francisco’s first ‘equity’ weed store was an epic failure. City Hall insiders may still pocket millions
The cannabis shop on storied Haight Street had it all: prime real estate, star power, political clout and social justice. Then things got ugly.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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An FBI agent killed a man after the Boston Marathon bombing. Oakland PD had helped hide his past

By Katey Rusch and @mgafni.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
An FBI agent killed a man after the Boston Marathon bombing. Oakland PD had helped hide his past
A trove of internal police files provides a more complete accounting of the early episode that could have jeopardized Aaron McFarlane’s career before a high-profile shooting.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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An alleged killer is living in a San Francisco psychiatric care facility that is considered secure and locked, but a reporter strolled right in

By @jonahowenlamb.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/08/12/a...
An alleged killer is living near Golden Gate Park in a facility where patients go missing
Michael Jacobs’ story illustrates how even a ‘homicidal’ defendent can end up living right next door.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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hopefully his departure will make a small difference or maybe even a vas deferens
June 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The Bay Area’s police nemesis is not quite ready to quit

By @stjbs.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Bay Area’s police watchdog is not quite ready to quit
The national reckoning over police abuse has lost momentum. But at age 80, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris keeps suing to force change.
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May 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic

By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry
Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Before killings linked to cultlike ‘Zizians,’ a string of psychiatric crises befell AI doomsdayers

By @meganrcassidy.bsky.social @michaelbarba.bsky.social and @mgafni.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
Before killings linked to cultlike ‘Zizians,’ a string of psychiatric crises befell AI doomsdayers
Before killings linked to cultlike ‘Zizians,’ a string of suicides and psychiatric crises befell AI doomsdayers
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May 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The complicated legacy of S.F. Police Chief Bill Scott

By @meganrcassidy.bsky.social and @michaelbarba.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
The complicated legacy of S.F. Police Chief Bill Scott
The complex legacy of SF Police Chief Bill Scott, who navigated a pandemic, a theft epidemic, union backlash and a reckoning against killings by officers.
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May 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This UC Berkeley student, who wears chicken-themed socks under her GPS ankle monitor, could go to prison for taking four birds from a slaughterhouse.

Was it a crime — or a ‘rescue’ www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
This California student could go to prison for taking four chickens. Was it a crime or a ‘rescue’?
UC Berkeley student Zoe Rosenberg is going to trial for taking chickens from a California slaughterhouse. Critics call it terrorism, but she calls it a rescue.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Catch me on NPR’s national “Here and Now” show with the inimitable Deepa Fernandez today talking about my book, “The Lost and The Found” — @atriabooks.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social here’s the recording and an excerpt from the book: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
'The Lost and the Found' takes a deep dive into two stories of homelessness
For decades, retired San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan covered the city's unhoused population.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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San Francisco’s Parks Alliance is in financial disarray, leaving community groups ‘high and dry’

By @michaelbarba.bsky.social and @jdmorris.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
San Francisco’s Parks Alliance is in financial disarray, leaving community groups ‘high and dry’
San Francisco’s Parks Alliance is in financial disarray, leaving community groups ‘high and dry’
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April 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A wealthy Marin County couple that owns a $12 million home with bay views are suing tony Belvedere, saying their extensive remodel turned into a nightmarish ordeal that prompted a $250K fine. The city says the project just took too long.

By @stjbs.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Marin couple’s pursuit of ‘dream home’ destroyed by city’s nightmarish bureaucracy, suit says
A lawsuit alleges that the city of Belvedere levied excessive fines and set arbitrary deadlines for a home remodel that dragged on for years.
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April 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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A San Francisco journalism teacher says he was reassigned over a controversial story in Lowell High School's student newspaper

By @jilltucker.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
S.F. journalism teacher says he was reassigned over a controversial story in Lowell’s student paper
S.F. journalism teacher says he was reassigned over a controversial story in Lowell’s student paper
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April 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Trump asserts that his critics care more about foreign-born murderers and thugs than they do about law-abiding Americans. Yet the case of one imprisoned migrant has come to crystallize the debate about whether Trump himself is a law-abiding American. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...
In Fight Over Abrego Garcia’s Deportation, Trump Seeks to Shift the Focus
The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A major California city lost its river. Residents are fighting to revive it

By @kurtisalexander.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
A major California city wants to revive its dry river. It’s not easy
Decades ago, the Kern River flowed through Bakersfield. Now it is dry — but some residents are dreaming of its return.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Oakland needs a win. Will Barbara Lee follow the lead of two recent Bay Area debuts?

Latest @joegarofoli.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
Oakland needs a win. Will Barbara Lee follow the lead of two recent Bay Area debuts?
Like San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Warriors forward Jimmy Butler, political veteran Barbara Lee must unite competing factions as Oakland’s next mayor.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Should you visit Yosemite this summer? It’s complicated

By @gregrthomas.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Should you visit Yosemite this summer? It’s complicated
As Yosemite's busy summer tourism season looms, trepidation and uncertainty swirl.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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An aerial photo of San Francisco shows vast destruction — and the seeds of a new city

Great stuff from @peterhartlaub.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
The 1906 earthquake devastated downtown San Francisco. Here’s a tour of what survived
From the Fairmont Hotel to the Flood Building, a visual tour of landmarks that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
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April 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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One lucky farmer is about to buy a slice of Wine Country way below market value www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...
One lucky farmer is about to buy a slice of Wine Country way below market value
A new program, Buy-Protect-Sell, seeks to sell agricultural land to a Sonoma County farmer anywhere from 30% to 70% below current market value.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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They wouldn't give their names.

“We’re definitely afraid,” said one.

Of 10 international students interviewed at Berkeley and Stanford, just one would be identified.

Others said they felt too “vulnerable,” “unsafe,” “helpless.”

By @nanetteasimov.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
‘We shouldn’t have to hide’: UC Berkeley, Stanford international students worry they’ll lose visas
Many international students told the Chronicle they are too scared to speak out as the Trump administration has revoked more than 1,300 college students' visas.
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April 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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It's all cracked windshields and few bipping victims at these San Francisco businesses

By @rswansf.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/b...
As San Francisco car break-ins plunge, these businesses are suffering
Bipped economy? San Francisco auto glass shops are suffering as car break-in crimes drop and their workloads decrease.
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April 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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By the time 15-yr-old Jázmin Pellegrini was found dead in an SF driveway last April, Chronicle reporters Cynthia Dizikes and Joaquin Palomino had already spent months investigating California's for-profit psychiatric hospitals.
They soon found her story epitomized the crisis inside these facilities.
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Dived into history, found a haunted mall and ate a world class piadina in downtown Petaluma.

It was easy to get there by bike/transit!

My day trip into the past — with A++ @jachristian.bsky.social photos!!

Gift link! 🎁 🐓

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This underrated North Bay town makes time travel possible
This historic town built on chickens and eggs and community is like time travel in all the best ways
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February 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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President Trump’s executive orders removing protections from transgender and gender nonbinary Americans could reach California. One trans woman isn’t waiting for that to happen.

By @raheemfh.bsky.social
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She lives in the U.S.’ trans ‘sanctuary.’ This S.F. woman left it to escape Trump
Lynn Riordan found stability as a transgender woman in San Francisco. Now she’s considering giving it up to escape President Donald Trump’s anti-trans agenda.
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February 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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An Oakland man sold his car to an acquaintance. How’d he end up owing San Francisco $38,000 in parking fines?

By @stjbs.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
He sold his car to an acquaintance. How’d he end up owing SF $38K?
An Oakland man sold his car to an acquaintance. How’d he end up owing SF $38,000 in parking fines?
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February 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM