The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (@WOEIP) is releasing all its data on pollution in the neighborhood, which includes the good news that black carbon has decreased by more than 40% since 2017
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Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the @PulitzerPrizes for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods. texasmonthly.com/press-room/…
Next Stop: Prom night. Break out the taffeta, tease up that hair, and dust off your dancing shoes.
BART is hosting its first-ever prom at Rockridge Station Saturday, June 6, from 6pm to 10pm!
All ages are welcome. Bring a date or don’t!
Buy tickets👇
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The idea was to take San Francisco’s most recognizable building and reinvent it for the new age. In the end, the Transamerica Pyramid was indeed transformed. It just wasn’t Michael Shvo who got to keep it. My piece 👇
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He lives like a monk. He dines like a king sfstandard.com/2026/02/25/fi… Meet the retired San Francisco man who's dined out at some of the city’s best restaurants more than 50 times
JOB ALERT: We're hiring for several reporting and editing jobs here at @propublica. If you're right for one of these positions, please apply. And feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. Please apply!
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Last June, OpenAI employees flagged violent ChatGPT activity by Jesse Van Rootselaar, the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. The company decided not to alert Canadian police. @georgia_wells has the story. wsj.com/us-news/law/openai-e…
With months-out reservations and impossible expectations, the frazzled owners of SF's romantic hot spots have a complicated relationship with Valentine's Day sfstandard.com/2025/02/14/re…
Re-upping this fun one from last year 💕💜 Happy V-Day y’all, be nice to your servers tonight!!!
A massive PG&E power outage and the ensuing fallout were exacerbated by poor communication, a poorly-trained AI model, and issues putting out a substation set ablaze.
📝: @leahygarrettsfstandard.com/2026/02/13/pg…
NEW: Less than four years since opening their first shop, the owners of Outta Sight Pizza are launching a third storefront.
The pair met at Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's, and now they're planning to take over a dive bar.
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STRIKE OVER: The teachers union and SFUSD reached a tentative contract agreement after a marathon negotiating session that lasted till 5:30 a.m. Friday sfstandard.com/2026/02/13/sf…
This SF university gave up its campus and is focused on growing its online program. Here's why it's still searching for a new space downtown sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/go…