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Group 20: SF Anti-Dysfunction Civic Operators (1 of 3)
SF residents with deep civic roots — commissioners, former staffers, longtime residents — who are frustrated with city budget waste, departmental dysfunction, and progressive machine politics. They want to fix SF from the inside. **Thin...
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Group 21: SF Anti-Dysfunction Civic Operators (2 of 3)
SF residents with deep civic roots — commissioners, former staffers, longtime residents — who are frustrated with city budget waste, departmental dysfunction, and progressive machine politics. They want to fix SF from the inside. **Thin...
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Group 22: YC Founder Civic Awakeners – SF (1 of 7)
YC-backed founders living in San Francisco who have recently become civically engaged, motivated by SF dysfunction around homelessness, housing, and safety. They bring startup-speed thinking to civic problems and are looking for fellow b...
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Group 23: YC Founder Civic Awakeners – SF (2 of 7)
YC-backed founders living in San Francisco who have recently become civically engaged, motivated by SF dysfunction around homelessness, housing, and safety. They bring startup-speed thinking to civic problems and are looking for fellow b...
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Group 24: YC Founder Civic Awakeners – SF (3 of 7)
YC-backed founders living in San Francisco who have recently become civically engaged, motivated by SF dysfunction around homelessness, housing, and safety. They bring startup-speed thinking to civic problems and are looking for fellow b...
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Group 25: YC Founder Civic Awakeners – SF (4 of 7)
YC-backed founders living in San Francisco who have recently become civically engaged, motivated by SF dysfunction around homelessness, housing, and safety. They bring startup-speed thinking to civic problems and are looking for fellow b...
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Group 26: YC Founder Civic Awakeners – SF (5 of 7)
YC-backed founders living in San Francisco who have recently become civically engaged, motivated by SF dysfunction around homelessness, housing, and safety. They bring startup-speed thinking to civic problems and are looking for fellow b...
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Group 27: YC Founder Civic Awakeners – SF (6 of 7)
YC-backed founders living in San Francisco who have recently become civically engaged, motivated by SF dysfunction around homelessness, housing, and safety. They bring startup-speed thinking to civic problems and are looking for fellow b...
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Group 28: South Bay & Silicon Valley Pro-Housing Coalition (1 of 3)
San Jose, Fremont, Cupertino, and South Bay residents who support pro-housing reform, tech-sector pragmatism, and results-oriented local governance. They admire Matt Mahan's San Jose leadership and want to build a South Bay civic network...
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Group 29: South Bay & Silicon Valley Pro-Housing Coalition (2 of 3)
San Jose, Fremont, Cupertino, and South Bay residents who support pro-housing reform, tech-sector pragmatism, and results-oriented local governance. They admire Matt Mahan's San Jose leadership and want to build a South Bay civic network...
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Fireside Chat with Xavier Becerra - submit your questions here!
Garry is hosting a fireside chat with Xavier Becerra tonight. Drop your questions below and upvote the ones you want answered. Submissions close at 2pm and the best get asked on stage. Keep them sharp and specific: housing, the budget, ...
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Editorial
The Environmental Law That Became a Housing Veto
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was signed to make government account for its own construction. A court decision later put it in the hands of homeowners instead, and housing paid the price for half a century.
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Editorial
How Oakland's Leadership Produced the Worst Property Crime Rate in the Nation
Behind the nation's worst property crime rate lies fifteen years of disastrous decisions.
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Editorial
The New Gatekeepers
San Francisco has co-opted the language of justice to run a homelessness machine built on control, not outcomes.
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Editorial
The Democratic Party Endorsed the Wealth Tax. Its Doctors, Teachers, Nurses, and Firefighters Didn't.
California Democrats backed Prop 40 by two votes. The real story is the coalition of workers who voted no, and they are the ones the tax claims to save.
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Editorial
The Caucus to Watch as California's Legislative Session Closes
The Legislature is back for the final weeks of its session. One bipartisan, bicameral caucus has turned problem solving from a talking point into a track record.
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Editorial
Billions of Dollars in, Homelessness in LA Continues to Rise
Los Angeles' own audits show a system that can't track what it spends, can't say what works, and never makes anyone answer for either.
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Editorial
Why California Is a Crucial Artery in Beijing's Campaign Against American AI
The nation's data center battles are the front line of a quiet, Beijing-linked influence campaign.
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Editorial
False Choice Narratives Are Anti-Asian
Three fictions San Francisco sold as justice, and the community that keeps paying for them.
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Editorial
LAUSD's Looming Insolvency Crisis
The second-largest school district in America has until mid-August to convince county overseers it can avoid the fate of Oakland, Vallejo, and Inglewood—after signing $1.13 billion in union contracts the county had already warned, in wri...
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Editorial
A Big Win for San Francisco's Budget—With Bigger Tests Still Ahead
San Francisco closed a $643 million deficit and passed its largest budget ever weeks ahead of schedule, but the bigger challenges are only just coming into view.
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Editorial
California Just Lost 10,000 Jobs to Texas—Again
A $3.2 billion shipyard just picked Texas over Solano County. It's the latest builder to walk away from California's red tape rather than fight through it.
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Editorial
A Primer: The Labor and Public-Interest Coalition Against Prop 40
A union wrote California's wealth tax and marketed it as a way to fix healthcare and schools. But the teachers, doctors, clinics, and officers it names as beneficiaries are now fighting to kill it.
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Editorial
The Nonprofit Behind San Francisco's Pay-to-Play Scandal Wants Another Supervisor Seat
A Bayview nonprofit at the center of two separate City Hall scandals is trying to send its third consecutive leader to the Board of Supervisors.
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Editorial
The Merchant and the Lawyer
A story of shared struggle, shifting coalitions, and abandoned alliances.
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Editorial
LA's Council Voted No on Oversight, Yes on a Lighter Schedule
The council shelved every measure that would have checked its power—and rushed through the one that lightens its schedule.
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Editorial
Bribes and Blind Spots: SF's Corruption Problem
San Francisco's recent scandals aren't one story—some are proven bribery, others are officials who didn't recuse. But both keep slipping through the same two chokepoints: contract awards and project approvals.
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Editorial
How a Honduran Trafficking Network Captured San Francisco's Fentanyl Trade
San Francisco's elected officials had years to act on the Tenderloin's drug network. They chose posturing instead.
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Editorial
The Campaign to Kill American AI Runs Through San Francisco
How a web of foreign money, from Shanghai to Geneva, found its way into Bay Area nonprofits now driving the movement to block American AI.
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Editorial
California's Encampment Fire Crisis
California won't enforce basic public order in its encampments. Working-class neighborhoods are paying for that choice in fire, smoke, and lost property, while wealthier ones are zoned out of the crisis entirely.
