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Joe Kukura

San Francisco

Assistant Editor and Reporter at SFist

I write for everyone @peterthiel hasn't sued yet @SFist, formerly @SFWeekly, @thrillist @BrokeAssStuart & @Hoodline. He/Him, categorically exempt under CEQA

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  • 1 week ago | sfist.com | Joe Kukura

    Local:Cal’s star running back Jaydn Ott is leaving Cal through the transfer portal, and transferring to another school he has not yet disclosed. It’s a rough hit after quarterback Fernando Mendoza also transferred to Indiana in December, and regrettably for “Calgorithm” fans, that Chappell Roan “​​Ott-To-Go” parody has, well, got to go. [ESPN]  A semi truck flipped over along the side of Highway 29 in Calistoga, and that highway has been operating as only one lane since around 2 pm.

  • 1 week ago | sfist.com | Joe Kukura

    As anti-Trump sentiment sweeps Canada over the whole tariff chaos, California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to sweet-talk Canadians into visiting blue-state California, either because we’re losing tourism dollars, or maybe just to irritate Trump. California Governor Gavin Newsom has been pretty uniquely proactive in combating Donald Trump’s astronomical tariff lunacy, even exploring legal strategies for other nations to exempt California from the tariffs.

  • 1 week ago | sfist.com | Joe Kukura

    We may have another SF Pride controversy like the Chelsea Manning grand marshal fiasco in 2013, as some activists say they’re being denied requests to make deported makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero this year’s honorary grand marshal. Of the 238 Venezuelan migrants that President Trump has had shipped off to a Salvadoran prison (most of them with no criminal records), a few of them have become particularly newsworthy.

  • 1 week ago | sfist.com | Joe Kukura

    It’s a story we’ve heard before, and is apparently still happening, as a Black and Latino couple had their Oakland home appraised in recent years for $250,000 less than it was worth, but now the state is forcing the appraisal company to pay the couple $75,000 in restitution.

  • 1 week ago | sfist.com | Joe Kukura

    SF’s famed microbrewery Fort Point Beer Company won’t exactly be an SF microbrewery anymore, as it’s merging with Santa Rosa’s HenHouse Brewing Co. and moving all its operations up to Sonoma County.

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