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BART Police Investigating Vandalism That Caused Major Service Delays
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Pension Amnesia? Two SF Measures Would Reward Police and Firefighters
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Parents, Educators 'Out of the Loop' as Teens Experiment With Generative AI, Study Finds
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Oakland and Its Own School Board Are Locked in a Legal Fight Over Election Costs
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The Future of San Francisco's Valencia Street — and What Oakland's Telegraph Avenue Tells Us About It
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Stanford’s New Protest Policies Ban Tents Overnight, Require Students to Remove Masks When Asked
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Parents, Educators 'Out of the Loop' as Teens Experiment With Generative AI, Study Finds
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San Francisco to Host International AI Safety Summit After Election, Biden Administration Says
How Researchers Measure Wildfire Smoke Exposure Doesn't Capture Long-Term Health Effects — and Hides Racial Disparities
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A Pomegranate Goes on a Cosmic Journey in Yasmeen Abedifard’s New Book
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Dregs One’s ‘History of the Bay Day’ to Return to SF; Full Lineup Announced
South Asian Literature and Art Festival Puts Creatives In Conversation
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Election 2024Election 2024

Pension Amnesia? Two SF Measures Would Reward Police and Firefighters
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How We Made the Expanded KQED California Voter Guide 
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What Are the 'Divine 9' and How Are They Helping Kamala Harris?
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Housing Affordability

This Bay Area County Approved Sweeping Protections for Disaster-Affected Tenants

Sonoma County’s Board of Supervisors approved a package of tenant protections that could minimize displacement during disasters.
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At a San Francisco Shelter for Unhoused Families, Cooking Helps Heal Trauma

Buena Vista Horace Mann, a Spanish immersion school in San Francisco’s Mission District, turns into a homeless shelter at night for families with children enrolled in the school district.
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Berkeley Moves to Expand Homeless Encampment Sweeps in More Aggressive Approach

The Berkeley City Council voted to allow sweeps even when shelter isn’t available, which came the same day as a lawsuit against the city over several large encampments.
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Inside a Community For Farmworkers and Low-Income Families Near Half Moon Bay

Moonridge is an affordable housing community of 160 homes for low-income residents and farmworkers just outside of Half Moon Bay. It was built more than 20 years ago.
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Immigration

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Fact-Check Reveals Trump's Inaccurate Claims About California and Kamala Harris

Donald Trump didn’t attack California or Kamala Harris’s home-state record during their presidential debate. He didn’t miss his chance on a fundraising visit, blasting the state on crime, homelessness and more.
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One Unaccompanied Minor's Journey to the US Sparks Hope in California's Pilot Program

An unaccompanied minor shares his struggle to adjust to life in the U.S. He now champions California’s pilot program that helps immigrant youth but is scrambling for funding after budget cuts.
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Newsom Vetoes Controversial Bill to Help Undocumented Immigrants Buy Homes

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a controversial bill on Friday that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to access one of the state’s first-generation homeownership loan programs.
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West Marin Worker Housing Often Substandard and Faulty, New Report Finds

Researchers found that housing conditions on ranches, where most respondents lived, were especially dire, with issues like non-functioning toilets, mold, holes in walls and leaky ceilings.
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Pension Amnesia? Two SF Measures Would Reward Police and Firefighters

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Parents, Educators 'Out of the Loop' as Teens Experiment With Generative AI, Study Finds

San Francisco-based Common Sense Media has released a national survey of 1,045 teens and their parents, asking about their use of generative AI at home and school. Nearly three-quarters of teens have used at least one type of generative AI tool, typically for homework.
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A man stands at a train platform as a train leaves the station. A sign above says "Lake Merritt."

BART Police Investigating Vandalism That Caused Major Service Delays

Incidents involved fiber-optic cable that the transit agency's train-control system relies on.
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Oakland and Its Own School Board Are Locked in a Legal Fight Over Election Costs

The Oakland school board said it’s not responsible for covering elections costs in response to a lawsuit filed by the city over a more than $2 million tab.
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The Future of San Francisco's Valencia Street — and What Oakland's Telegraph Avenue Tells Us About It

San Francisco transit officials want to revamp a controversial bike lane. An Oakland thoroughfare offers clues as to how it will go.
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Stanford’s New Protest Policies Ban Tents Overnight, Require Students to Remove Masks When Asked

The new policies centralize and clarify rules on “freedom of expression” after last year’s protests over the war in Gaza and set up a new system for reporting discrimination.
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San Francisco to Host International AI Safety Summit After Election, Biden Administration Says

President Biden’s administration on Wednesday announced a two-day international AI safety gathering planned for Nov. 20 and 21.
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