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1,000 Muni trips in 30 days? I wrote about the #TransitMonth2024 Ride Contest from Seamless Bay Area & SF Transit Riders Where Bay Area residents get very competitive riding BART, San Francisco Bay Ferry and Dumbarton Express for fame & prizes. ⛴️🚍🚊🏆 sfchronicle.com/totalsf/articl…

The Chronicle's hat game is about to take a serious hit. 🎩 But in all seriousness, I've learned so much reading and talking with John King. Wishing him the best retirement. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-…

A secret system covers up and perpetuates police misconduct in California. We expose that system today. It took 3 yrs of digging by UC Berkeley IRP reporters Katey Rusch and Casey Smith and superb editing by Demian Bulwa and the whole San Francisco Chronicle team. sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

Yesterday we posted an unusual story for us at the San Francisco Chronicle that was actually about 400 stories. Here is a little thread about how it happened. sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

Today is forecast to be the hottest of the heat wave sweeping across the Bay Area, with temperatures as much as 25 degrees above normal. Live updates >> trib.al/cJpCgSK

We are launching the only comprehensive guide for families applying to California’s public universities, featuring in-depth acceptance rates and enrollment data for all University of California and Cal State campuses.

The Excessive Heat Warning has been extended for inland portions of the Bay Area, Central Coast, and the city of San Francisco through 11 PM Thursday. The Heat Advisory directly along the coastline has also been extended through 11PM Thursday. #CAwx

My (free!) farewell column after 23 years -- why I wish I'd been carrying a camera my first day on the gig, and why S.F.'s future is brighter than what the doomsters say: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bui…

How many cars vs. pedestrians use SF's Great Highway? I was curious about Prop K's potential impact, so I went out to the Great Highway and counted every car & pedestrian I saw over the course of an hour Here's what I found San Francisco Chronicle sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

What's the best event in San Francisco? We held a ranked-choice poll to find out, but also used the results to explain how ranked-choice voting works, including whether voters can "game" the system sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

Still have those eclipse glasses handy? Quick, look at the Sun — there is a sunspot group large enough to see without a telescope (using a proper solar viewing method, of course)! That's active region 13848, which has produced two M-class flares in the past week. 🤩

Trick or treat San Francisco! sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bes…

#MountainFire UPDATE: The fire has crossed Highway 118 and is now impacting the Camarillo Heights area. Evacuation orders are in effect, and we urge residents to follow these orders for their safety. Several individuals have been injured and transported to local hospitals.

Pop-up YouTube livestream today (11/22) at 10am Pacific Time! discuss ongoing #AtmosphericRiver & record-breaking precipitation event across parts of N. California today, including reflection on broader context. Expect a live radar & satellite tour. #CAwx youtube.com/live/2QXwn9obl…

Looking for a change of pace when folks gather on Thanksgiving and don't want to talk politics? Try this eye-popping survey of what AI gets wrong about SF, from tri-towered Golden Gate Bridges to foliage-shrouded towers. Aka my final San Francisco Chronicle byline: sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

How did the 2024 Cape Mendocino earthquake happen? Kurtis Alexander & I asked seismologists & geologists for the San Francisco Chronicle Read our story to learn about the science behind the 7.0 & what experts know about where & when aftershocks could occur ➡️rb.gy/or1e7e

Ok night owls🦉let's talk about the recent tsunami warning🌊We don't get these alerts very often and there are lot of questions, frustration, and even some anger about how it all unfolded. We'll go over the history, science and warning process👇

Fascinating story by Hannah Hagemann: Scientists are 'harvesting' fog for water. Here's what it could mean for California "Fog — a part of daily life for millions of Californians — is fundamentally fickle." Photo by @YOSHIFOTO sfchronicle.com/weather/articl…

Hundreds rallied in support of science outside SF City Hall and around the country in the face of widespread cuts and layoffs by the Trump administration: sfchronicle.com/science/articl… w/ Jack Lee

NEW: How Trump's NOAA cuts could hurt California "Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise storms flooding downtown San Francisco. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms." By @edwardsanthonyb & Jack Lee sfchronicle.com/weather/articl…