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Friend of the pod

At a live KQED podcast taping, Mayor Daniel Lurie felt the love

January 23, 2026

The good fight

California AG Rob Bonta says the courts have the Trump Administration on the ropes

January 22, 2026

Crashing out

D4’s Alan Wong says that Sunset Dunes is impacting ‘street safety.’ A new data analysis suggests otherwise

January 22, 2026

Neighborhood watch

One person’s experience living — and protesting ICE — near 630 Sansome St.

January 12, 2026

The city’s sobering center won’t open until March or April

Called RESET (Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage), the facility is part of a larger plan by the mayor’s office to help chronic drug users get treatment

January 6, 2026

Daniel Lurie’s 2025 wins and losses

From family zoning to dead mice, an assessment of the mayor’s first year in office

December 22, 2025

‘Can we be loud?’

A proud display of Jewishness, and a lot of cops, in the Castro after the shooting in Sydney

December 17, 2025

Federal Judge blocks Los Angeles troop deployment

Charles Breyer calls Pete Hegseth’s move for a ‘perpetual police force’ ‘shocking’

December 10, 2025

One event after another

What can a mellow movie star like Benicio del Toro teach a highly-scheduled mayor like Daniel Lurie?

December 9, 2025

California sues Trump to remove final troops from Los Angeles streets

In a ‘lively exchange,’ Judge Charles Breyer zings a representative of Pete Hegseth’s so-called Department of War

December 5, 2025