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Editorial
A Tropical Disease Hit a Berkeley Homeless Encampment. Courts Blocked Cleanup.
Homelessness & Drug Crisis
Leptospirosis, common in underdeveloped countries, spread through Berkeley's Harrison encampment—and courts continued to prevent cleanup efforts.
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Editorial
Oakland Has a Gang Problem Disguised as a Gun Problem
Public Safety & Policing
Less than 2,000 Oakland residents drive most of its gun violence. Oakland Ceasefire shows just how important it is to target the right people.
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Editorial
SFO Is Trying to Bury Waymo
Tech
Waymo cleared every safety bar and got exiled to the Rental Car Center. Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft keep 800,000 monthly trips.
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Editorial
California Auditors Confirmed Billions in Fraud. The State Ignored Them.
State Capacity
California's EDD lost $20 billion to fraud and still owes $21 billion on its federal pandemic loan — and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
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Editorial
The Easiest Way to Sell Wine in San Francisco Is Illegally
Small Business & Regulation
SF makes restaurant owners navigate four agencies and wait six months to serve wine legally. Two blocks away, stolen bottles trade with impunity.
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Editorial
Grandpa Vicha's Killer Was Just Released on Probation
Criminal Justice
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
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Editorial
Yes, Fare Gates Actually Reduce Crime
Public Safety & Policing
BART's 2025 crime collapse confirms what NYC learned in 1990: fare enforcement isn't about the fare. It's about who's riding your system.
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Editorial
Merz Called It a Mistake. Then He Called It Irreversible.
Techno-Optimism
Germany's nuclear phase-out is costing factories, workers, and the climate. The man who said it was wrong now says nothing can be done.
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Editorial
New York Wants to Ban the AI That Outscores Doctors
Tech & Startup Regulation
S7263 would ban AI from answering medical and legal questions, protecting billable hours while the people who can't afford doctors lose their only option.
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Editorial
GPT-5.4 Cracked a 20-Year Math Problem
Techno-Optimism
A Polish mathematician spent two decades building a research-level problem no AI could touch. Run 11 proved him wrong.
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Editorial
Most Democrats Want Normal. Nationally It's Going Bad. In San Francisco, There's Hope.
Elections & Voting Integrity
The moderate majority is real but an 11% fringe is hijacking primaries. But not in San Francisco. Here's why.
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Editorial
Chinatown Stabbing Victim Got No Press Conference
Public Safety & Policing
An Asian American man was stabbed in broad daylight two days before Lunar New Year. The mayor's bodyguards got press coverage. He got bystanders who kept walking.
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Editorial
Richmond Cut Its Crime Cameras. Car Thefts Jumped 33%.
Public Safety & Policing
The city disabled its license plate readers to virtue signal national issues. Immigrant shopkeepers are paying the price.
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Editorial
Asset Seizure: A One-Act Play
Asset Seizure Taxes
Sanders and Khanna want to tax money that doesn't exist on assets you can't sell. The only proportionate response was a one-act play.
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Editorial
The San Francisco Chinatown Grift: 29 LLCs, Political Power, and Too Few New Homes
State Capacity
They are accused of harvesting grandma's ballot, pocket $777K salaries, and wield incredible political power in San Francisco. All on your tax dollars.
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Editorial
The Princeton Professor Who Whitewashed Khomeini, Then Got Promoted by the UN
Media & Narrative
A Princeton professor called the Ayatollah's circle 'moderate' and 'progressive.' Within months, hundreds were executed. He never apologized.
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Editorial
$127 Billion for One City. Worse Outcomes Than Houston.
Budgets & Fiscal Policy
Fareed Zakaria just said the quiet part out loud: blue cities are out of control. But San Francisco might actually be charting a different course.
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Editorial
Data Center NIMBYs Are Killing $1 Trillion in AI Infrastructure
Techno-Optimism
Housing NIMBYs already took 36% of GDP. Now the same playbook is blocking the AI economy. The states that figure out how to share the upside will win the future.
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Editorial
Bernie Sanders Can't Explain American Innovation
Asset Seizure Taxes
Asked point-blank why the US dominates tech while Europe stagnates, the Senator pivoted to healthcare and homelessness. The honest answer would destroy his worldview.
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Editorial
Mahan wants to fix the waste. Steyer just wants to raise taxes.
State Politicians
California bleeds $20-35 billion a year. Steyer wants to raise taxes. Mahan wants to stop lighting money on fire.
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Editorial
She Graduated With Honors But She Can't Read
Merit & Excellence
She's suing the district that failed to teach her. Virtue signal destroyed teaching. How do we restore real education in schools?
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Editorial
MacKenzie Scott's $26 Billion Sugar Pile
State Capacity
Forbes celebrates her as history's greatest giver. But without stewardship, the outcomes are spotty at best.
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Editorial
AI Didn’t Kill Creativity. It Killed Your Excuses.
Tech
The moment you can tell your work sucks is the moment most people quit. AI just makes it harder to hide there.
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Editorial
The $593 Billion Pension Scheme Crushing SFUSD
Budgets & Fiscal Policy
Teachers and parents have a common enemy—and it isn't each other. It's a pension system running a 20-year scam.
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Editorial
BART's Doomsday Gambit: Pay Up or Lose Your Station
Transit & Safety
Instead of fixing endemic graft, overtime abuse, and union-protected waste, they're holding your commute hostage for a November tax bailout.
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Editorial
Boil the Ocean
Techno-Optimism
Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions
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Editorial
The $921M Special Interest Machine That Controls California
State Capacity
Public sector unions collect nearly $1 billion a year to control Sacramento. Normal citizens? A trickle against a torrent.
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Editorial
America's Schools Are Lying About Failure
Merit & Excellence
Film students can't finish movies. Professors curve the grades anyway. And states that 'lowered standards to be kind' betrayed their most vulnerable students.
