Heather Knight

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San Francisco Bureau Chief at The New York Times

San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times; former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-host of #TotalSF podcast; proud to call SF home

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Stanford Protesters Charged With Felonies for Pro-Palestinian Occupation

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight |Isabelle Taft

He said his investigators were able to "work around" the protesters' attempts to conceal their planning and found they had surveilled the building; studied the patterns of local police officers and security guards; and assigned themselves specific tasks, such as who would break the window and who would use a crowbar to pry open the door.
San Francisco Rethinks Its Free Handouts of Drug Paraphernalia

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight

Plastic straws are banned in San Francisco, at least if you want to drink a soda or lemonade. Those smoking fentanyl, however, have been able to get them for free, at taxpayers' expense. There was also the time five years ago, when the city helped pay for a billboard that showed smiling, glittery partygoers. "Do it with friends," the public service message said, urging drug users to consume with others so they could treat a potential overdose.
Will she or won’t she? Retirement hovers over Pelosi, and her city.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Heather Knight

SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi flicked her hand like she was shooing away a gnat. She had just been asked whether she was concerned about her new challenger in next year’s election to represent San Francisco in Congress. His name, Saikat Chakrabarti, is unfamiliar to many of the city’s voters. But it’s one that gets under Pelosi’s skin, given the tense history between the two Democrats going back to his brief and contentious time on Capitol Hill.
Will She or Won't She? Retirement Hovers Over Pelosi, and Her City.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight

Nancy Pelosi flicked her hand like she was shooing away a gnat. She had just been asked whether she was concerned about her new challenger in next year's election to represent San Francisco in Congress. His name, Saikat Chakrabarti, is unfamiliar to many of the city's voters. But it's one that gets under Ms. Pelosi's skin, given the tense history between the two Democrats going back to his brief and contentious time on Capitol Hill.
Trump Targets the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, a Pelosi Achievement

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight

Nancy Pelosi, one of President Trump's most vocal critics in his first term, has mostly held her fire this time around, largely out of deference to the Democratic leaders who succeeded her. But that changed this week after Mr. Trump struck directly at Ms. Pelosi's local legacy and the liberal city that she adores.
Sister's goodbye to World War trooper, 80 years on: Captured by Germans in 1944, soldier’s body returns to US - Telegraph India

2 months ago | telegraphindia.com | Heather Knight

On Friday, Wong, now 94, sat in the front pew of a mortuary just south of her home in San Francisco, her brother’s remains in a casket draped in an American flag Heather Knight Published 10.02.25, 06:56 AM Yuen Hop. Sourced by the Telegraph When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her for joy rides in his used convertible around the apple orchards their family worked.
Her Brother Disappeared in War 80 Years Ago. She Finally Got to Say Goodbye.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight

When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her for joy rides in his used convertible around the apple orchards their family worked. Yuen Hop left their home in Sebastopol, Calif., a small town 55 miles north of San Francisco, at 19 to join the U.S. Army. His little sister never saw him again. She knew he had died in the war, but she did not know how. Or where. Or what had happened to his body.
When a pro-Trump crypto king came knocking, San Francisco elites locked the door

2 months ago | pressdemocrat.com | Heather Knight

“I certainly don’t have a problem sharing a building or an elevator or a neighborhood with people with very different ideas of my own,” Powell said. “They are certainly not showing me any grace or any open-mindedness.
In Fight Over San Francisco Building, Bitcoin Pioneer Is Rejected by Democratic Elite

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight

In San Francisco, it is informally called "Susie's Building" in deference to the owner of the 12th-floor penthouse with wraparound views of the bay. Susie Tompkins Buell, a power broker in Democratic politics, is known for throwing lavish fund-raising parties and writing checks so large they can start a campaign. A who's who of the Democratic Party has made a point of stopping by over the years. Bill and Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. Kamala Harris. Nancy Pelosi.
San Francisco's New Mayor Is Rich. Is That a Good Thing?

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight

Like the little red labels on the pockets of Levi's jeans, the heirs to the Levi Strauss fortune are woven into the fabric of Bay Area philanthropy. The Sterns, as in Stern Grove, the 12-acre park in San Francisco that hosts free summer concerts. Haas, as in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Haas Pavilion, where the university's Golden Bears play basketball. Goldman, as in the Goldman Environmental Prize, called the Green Nobels.