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Marina Newman @marinanewman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Big news: the city attorney's office settled with landlords at Alice Griffith for a whopping $9M. This is what this job is about — a big thank you to my editors and all the tenants who bravely shared your stories with me

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 04/02/2026

The San Francisco school board was all set to vote on an OpenAI contract w/the district. The forms—w/the contract price redacted—had been signed, the deal was seemingly done. Then the district yanked it. Why? missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-s...

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In midst of labor talks, SFUSD proposes deal with OpenAI — then backtracks

The heavily redacted OpenAI contract was put on the San Francisco school board's agenda — the removed without notice. Why?

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 29/01/2026

A Mission Local analysis revealed that the San Francisco Unified School District's proposed cuts fall heavily on small schools and/or schools serving low-income students. From @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/01/sfus...

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SFUSD’s proposed cuts will hit small schools and low-income students hardest

A Mission Local analysis found that roughly 85 percent of schools that would receive cuts to staff have Title I status.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 24/12/2025

San Francisco tenants get a reprieve over the holidays—deputies pause their evictions at the end of the year. But not in court. In court, tenants are still pleading their cases. via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-e...

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S.F deputies don’t carry out evictions during the holidays. But in court, the clock’s still ticking.

For the last two weeks of December, San Franciscans facing eviction get temporary reprieve. But in court, it's a different story.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 23/12/2025

After the death of Alberto Rangel, staff and patients are left questioning what could have been done to have prevented his death. We pieced together the minutes leading up to his attack. What's left are critical gaps in time. via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-h...

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A timeline of the stabbing at San Francisco's Ward 86

Two weeks after the killing of social worker Alberto Rangel, staff and patients are left wondering what could have prevented it.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 22/12/2025

After speaking to half a dozen eyewitnesses, we've pieced together the final hours and minutes leading up to the fatal stabbing of social worker Alberto Rangel in San Francisco General Hospital's Ward 86. via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-h...

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What went wrong in Ward 86? The hours and minutes leading up to Alberto Rangel’s killing.

Two weeks after the death of Alberto Rangel, staff and patients are left questioning what could have been done to have prevented his death.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 30/10/2025

The U.S. Navy found elevated levels of plutonium—twice recommended levels—in Bayview-Hunters Point shipyard last November. But it neglected to tell the city. missionlocal.org/2025/10/navy...

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U.S. Navy found elevated plutonium in Bayview — S.F. says it was kept in the dark

Navy detected double the ‘action levels’ at Hunters Point Shipyard in November 2024. City says it was only told in October 2025.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 28/10/2025

San Francisco’s RV ban kicks in this weekend. RV residents are scrambling to prove they’ve been here long enough — using parking tickets, photos, & even old news clippings — to qualify for a short-term reprieve. via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/10/they...

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Tow trucks are coming for S.F.’s RVs. Their residents struggle for reprieve.

With San Francisco's RV parking ban starting on Nov. 1, dozens of RV dwellers say they were missed in a city-wide count of RVs parked on public streets.

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Marina Newman @marinanewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Supervisor Shamann Walton slammed Mayor Lurie for a “bait & switch:" Moving tiny homeless cabins to a Bayview site w/out speaking to residents. Lurie says it’s temporary storage. Walton says Lurie won’t return his calls. missionlocal.org/2025/10/s-f-...

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S.F. supervisor slams Lurie’s move of tiny cabins to Bayview as ‘dishonest’

Mayor Daniel Lurie is moving tiny cabins from the Mission to the Bayview — and Supervisor Walton says, not with promised community input.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 09/10/2025

S.F. lost its case against Collective Impact—the nonprofit implicated in a corruption scandal won’t be cut off from city funds. It was an odd ruling that came after midnight…& w/out information the judge deemed “critical.” via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/10/in-b...

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In ‘bizarre’ midnight move, S.F. nonprofit tied to corruption scandal wins reprieve

An administrative law judge ruled against the city in favor of San Francisco nonprofit Collective Impact, implicated in a corruption scandal.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 08/10/2025

The Potrero Bus Yard would have been the largest affordable housing project in the Mission — 465 rental units sitting atop a Muni lot. But it’s been slashed to just 100 units. via @marinanewman.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/10/mass...

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Massive 465-unit Mission District affordable housing project slashed to just 100 units

The Potrero Yard Modernization Project cannot secure the funding for an ambitious bus yard and housing plan seven years in the works.

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Marina Newman @marinanewman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Leonard Lacayo calls himself many things: a tax notary, an ex-CIA agent, a behind the scenes political agitator. But one thing he isn’t is a lawyer. That’s why San Francisco has sued him three times and wants $600,000. missionlocal.org/2025/10/from...

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From notario to notorious: S.F.’s most famous accused fake lawyer blames it on ‘satanic’ Dems

Leonard Lacayo calls himself many things: A tax notary, a CIA agent, a political agitator. But one thing he isn't is a lawyer.

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