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Politics editor @sfchronicle , alum of @voiceofsandiego , @politico & @TPM , USC Trojan, Oregonian, runner, snacker

San Diego, CA
Joined April 2009
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Just dropped my baby for his first day of daycare. It costs 30% more per year than OUT-OF-STATE tuition to San Diego State and took a year to secure. Seems like a thing politicians could choose to care about.
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I really don’t think most people, particularly in the West, are grappling with how serious this drought is. A vast lake is set to run dry. Scientists are scrambling to save its endangered fish
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BREAKING: The archbishop of San Francisco wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday, informing her "you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion" because of her support for abortion rights.
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As someone who spent the last several years covering how sexual misconduct in schools is perpetually swept under the rug/predators are often paid to leave, the fact that people are now interested in "grooming" and yet ... don't actually care about any of that is, uh, frustrating!
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MEN MADE VERY UNCOMFORTABLE BY KAMALA HARRIS, A SERIES
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Dissent from Justice Goodwin Liu, a former UC Berkeley law professor: "Even if those students enroll elsewhere, the reshuffling will cause other displacements, and the effects of the enrollment cap will reverberate up and down the state."
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BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein is en route to D.C., could return to Senate votes as early as Tuesday evening, @sfchronicle confirms.
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Free vasectomies! One of the bills included in the package of abortion protection measures Gavin Newsom signed today requires health insurance plans to cover vasectomies, without co-pays.
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7 years
I feel like we should be talking more about how an Army solider and vet were murdered by crazed racists on US soil w/in a week of each other
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5 years
This is a persistent myth about California homelessness being trumpeted by California's senior senator. Studies and data from LA and San Diego show the homeless populations there are overwhelmingly home-grown residents.
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Asked Feinstein yesterday about Trump's comments about homeless people in CA:
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3 years
Some personal news: After nine (!!!) amazing years at @voiceofsandiego , I'm headed to the @sfchronicle as its next politics editor. Thrilled to be leading this talented team, and am bursting with pride over what Voice has accomplished.
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BREAKING: Los Angeles and San Diego Unified School Districts, the two largest districts in California, announce they'll close Monday. Tentative plans to reopen April 6.
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7 years
2 years ago, O'Reilly told NYT's Emily Steel "I am coming after you with everything I have." Didn't go well for him.
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3 years
Wow. Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have decriminalized jaywalking. In veto message, says he's determined to address unequal enforcement against people of color but "in a manner that does not risk worsening California's pedestrian safety."
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3 years
Journalists have *finally* begun to internalize the fact that we shouldn’t take police at their word about critical incidents (or much else). Many still haven’t learned that lesson when it comes to uncritically trumpeting PR from businesses.
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7 years
Training officer at CA racial profiling hearing was just asked about de-escalation. Basically said it's on citizens not to scare officers.
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2 years
Newsom’s address in a nutshell: California has problems, but we’re still better than everyone else!
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3 years
San Diego Sheriff makes it official: The hospital took no toxic screening tests in incident it held out as an overdose from merely being in the vicinity of the drug.
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@nhannahjones I also wear one in settings where I'm with my toddler and he's expected to wear a mask. So much easier to get him to do it when the whole family is doing it together.
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A Border Patrol agent stationed at the McAllen, Texas, facility didn't dispute the term concentration camp to @ProPublica and likened the migrants' experience there to torture.
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Shoutout to the protesters who went with the gutsily wonky "Override the Parliamentarian" banner in this morning's immigration demonstration on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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6 years
Since it's #internationalwomensday I wanna bring up a big pet peeve about that famous quote, "Well-behaved women seldom make history." The historian who wrote it in 1976 didn't mean it the way we use it.
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3 years
Wish John Lewis could see this.
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2 years
California wants to be a haven for abortion-seekers, trans people seeking gender-affirming care, refugees seeking safety. But its heart is writing checks its housing element can’t cash.
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But what Laurel Thatcher Ulrich meant was that history consistently overlooks women who were NOT agitators -- those who quietly toiled, struggled and worked tirelessly.
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6 years
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed @LorenaSGonzalez 's bill requiring election officials to include pre-paid postage on mail ballots, starting in 2019.
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8 years
California SoS says there were 200K new registrations or registration updates yesterday, the last day to register before the primary.
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2 years
A heartbreaking read and important accountability work.
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5 years
Palo Alto resident who opposes SB 50 to spur more housing construction says the real problem is ... too much job creation. “We have too many jobs,” said the *checks notes* RETIRED ECONOMIST.
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7 years
It's gonna be so rad next year when @laurenduca wins the commentary Pulitzer.
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6 years
It's a call to recognize all kinds of work and all kinds of people as valuable, not just men and not just those who are loud, or privileged, or who are actively setting out to be noticed.
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Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins
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Name your top three public figures you wish were still alive right now to comment on what’s happening in our country. I’ll go first (in no particular order): John McCain, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson
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4 years
However dumb this milkshake story is, it *perfectly* encapsulates what's wrong with policing: Assume every benign interaction is actually an aggressive attack, don't bother investigating before publicly smearing a person or business, go quiet when proven wrong, repeat.
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2 years
I've seen a looooooooot of CEQA casualties over the years, but UC Berkeley being forced to cap enrollment because of a neighborhood group opposed to a development is still a bit mind-blowing.
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Gov Gavin Newsom statement on Betty White: “above all else, she was a beacon of hope throughout her career, bringing joy and humor to everything she did. Although she may not have been born here, she was a timeless Californian treasure, through and through”
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BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he will halt a new round of homelessness funding until jurisdictions can "coordinate an approach that will deliver more substantial results."
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5 years
Man, keep these pieces on badass women journalists coming! This week alone there's been great pieces on @jiatolentino in Elle, @JaneMayerNYer & @jkbjournalist in InStyle, now this on @nhannahjones :
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Within an hour of the Texas shooting, the California Senate passed a bill allowing private citizens to sue, a la Texas' abortion law, makers and sellers of illegal assault weapons or ghost guns.
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So, no offense if you have a shirt or a bumper sticker or whatever. But it doesn't mean what you think it means. Shoutout to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and anyone shining a spotlight on all kinds of women's work.
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6 years
Whoa. Border Patrol arrested an off-duty LAPD officer yesterday for driving with two immigrants in his car. (This was at an I-8 checkpoint, not at the border.)
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BREAKING: A judge has issued an emergency order banning San Francisco from clearing homeless encampments and citing people for sleeping in public and other violations.
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2 years
This weekend at the grocery store, a man came in and started screaming "I own this store." Thinking about Buffalo, I yanked my 4-year-old out of the cart and started looking for hiding places. This is just ... regular life?
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3 years
This is just, wow.
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2 years
Conservative politicians & media have had a field day tying California's electric car push to its current strained power grid. But the data flatly debunks a connection. EVs make up .4% of peak energy load, and the mandate doesn't take effect until 2035.
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Honestly shocked that the California Democratic Party has endorsed Mike Schaefer, a Board of Equalization member and perennial candidate who's been convicted, sanctioned, disbarred and served a restraining order.
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I hope @Sulliview is stretching her arms over her head in a hammock somewhere, sipping some tea, delighting in not having to clean up this mess.
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@mtsw I will just never wrap my mind around the fact that COPS are insisting that THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T FORCE YOU TO DO THINGS. 🤯
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There's one big difference between the Texas abortion law and what Newsom's proposing -- assault weapons are already banned in CA, and those laws are enforced (and defended in court) by the state.
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San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten has been nominated deputy education secretary. When her handpicked comms director joked about murdering a @voiceofsandiego reporter, she declined to fire him. But hey, “be kind, dream big” right?
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Next time you hear about fake news remember that journos are so committed to facts they correct giraffe photos
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The AP has deleted a tweet about a giraffe being born because it included a photo of the wrong giraffe. A new tweet is upcoming.
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🚨BREAKING: A judge has struck down San Francisco's law allowing noncitizen parents to vote in school board elections, saying it violates the California Constitution.
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BREAKING: CHP has confirmed to @sfchronicle that Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was arrested for a DUI in Napa County on Saturday night.
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Whoa. Kamala Harris is sponsoring a bill to allow civil asset forfeitures before charges are filed. Via @ceballosap http://t.co/yNguY426lx
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In and out of the San Diego DMV in 7 minutes for a REAL ID. Please clap.
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3 years
New bill from Republican state Sen. Melissa Melendez aims to "fight against cancel culture" by adding political affiliation as a protected class.
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In 2015, California turned to data to combat police racial profiling. But a deep dive into the numbers shows the problem is only getting worse. Please spend some time with this incredible piece by @dustingardiner & @susieneilson
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the best part of being a parent, imo, is how bad luck and absurd circumstances are constantly colliding with devastating institutional failures to support families 🙃
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4 years
Weird how conservative media outlets lost their minds when @LorenaSGonzalez publicly swore but haven't mentioned GOP lawmakers saying "fuck" and "THIS IS BULLSHIT" during actual legislative sessions over the last two weeks. It's almost like language policing is performative.
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Upon learning the coronavirus vaccine she created really worked, she responded, “Oh, I thought so” and “ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”
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Fortuitous shot from @sfchronicle photog @ScottStrazzante in 2016: Then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla, and then-Electoral College Chair Laphonza Butler. Now Butler will join Padilla in the U.S. Senate.
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In my feelings on this one. Six years ago, I wrote about how the San Diego DA tried to railroad a young man based on ... Facebook pics. A judge eventually tossed the case against him. This weekend, Aaron Harvey graduates from UC Berkeley.
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WOW. Rep. Susan Davis, in an email to constituents, announces she won't seek re-election.
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Wow. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed @LorenaSGonzalez ’s AB 51, ending forced arbitration as a condition of employment.
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Daycare won’t allow my son, who has a runny nose, back without a Covid test, BUT the same clinic that’s tested him twice when he was asymptomatic/no known exposure now won’t test him ... because of the runny nose. We’re 7 months into this and we’re nowhere.
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I’ve got the hot election news you crave, by which I mean my HOA has been roiled by a newcomer who ousted a longtime incumbent BUT her home is actually owned by a trust so her eligibility is UNDER REVIEW YALL.
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i'm dying ... got a new records request response from San Francisco PD and this is how they redacted a mug shot. this is ART.
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Journalism matters. Two weeks after we revealed SDPD was still enforcing a blatantly unconstitutional law, the department says it will stop and the city attorney is working to repeal it.
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The California Senate and Assembly have both just unanimously passed the bill removing student enrollment from CEQA consideration - 72 hours after the measures were introduced.
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I'm sorry ... WHAT???
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SDPD announces one of its officers has been suspended without pay after he was arrested for threatening people with a gun while off-duty outside a bar in Pacific Beach.
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Guy delivering @sfchronicle election night pizzas: “Sorry but … what election is it?”
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First day at @sfchronicle !
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In case you thought the UC Berkeley incident was isolated (no one thinks this), here’s what’s happening at UC San Diego:
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Kind of amazing that just a couple months ago, Kevin Faulconer mocked @vosdscott for focusing on reopening schools to an audience of San Diego business leaders. Now he's making reopening schools the centerpiece of his run for governor.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed SB 519, making investigations into in-custody deaths public. This absolutely would never have happened without the tireless reporting on San Diego jail deaths by @kellylynndavis , whose findings are cited heavily in the bill analyses.
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Talking about prospective police reform is great, but we should also talk about the ways police don't comply with *existing* reforms. Some recent examples:
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Wow. A Sheriff's deputy discussing a wildly contentious parking lot for the homeless in Encinitas said NIMBYs are the problem, not the lot's occupants.
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This is just gutting.
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Interesting timing for @Kevin_Faulconer to have just embraced Trump for the first time in his career
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🚨 @abbydphillip gets an SNL character!!!
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Trump said on Hannity that San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer thanked him for "doing the wall" at their meeting earlier this week. Faulconer, who opposes the wall, tells @voiceofsandiego that never happened.
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Aaaaaand @taylorswift13 performing Soon You’ll Get Better for the first time ever live broke me.
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The Blue Angels have flown overhead multiple times during Feinstein’s funeral. “It’s what Dianne wants, it’s what we get,” Pelosi quipped as she was forced to pause once more. London Breed says she told the Angels “just two times” but they’ve kept going.
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Honestly mortified by how much people in San Diego - a major U.S. city at the intersection of virtually every big policy issue - freak out every time the New York Times acknowledges its existence.
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Rep. Jackie Speier told @sfchronicle this morning after her retirement announcement that when she told Pelosi her decision last night, the speaker was surprised and responded "But you're so young!" Speier is 71.
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This kicker 😭
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Great reporting from @SophiaBollag on the status of a bill to force Google & Facebook to pay for news in the wake of the gutting LA Times layoffs:
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👀👀👀The California Supreme Court just blew a huge hole in police immunity, striking down decades of appellate rulings shielding officers from lawsuits. The decision was 7-0.
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2 years
Just astonishing how much money was lit on fire for some of these losing California ballot measures.
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If you want a sense of what it's like to be a homebuyer in California -- this house STILL HAS A METH LAB INSIDE, and the cost to clean it up is tacked on. The price has increased since it hit the market.
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