Sophia Bollag
California Politics Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle
California politics reporter @sfchronicle
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sfchronicle.com | Sophia Bollag |Shira Stein
Gov. Gavin Newsom offered new tools to California cities in an effort to entice them to crack down on homeless encampments. Noah Berger/Associated PressGov. Gavin Newsom is calling on cities to outlaw homeless encampments, nearly a year after the Supreme Court gave them broad power to do so.
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modbee.com | Sophia Bollag
May 5-But Trump's Sunday evening social media post about the idea follows a well-honed strategy that the president has been deploying for years. He makes outlandish claims and goads the media into writing stories debunking or criticizing them, which focuses the national conversation around his preferred topics. Centering the news cycle around the idea that he wants to crack down on crime could keep Americans' focus on an issue that's politically advantageous to him, experts say.
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sfchronicle.com | Sophia Bollag
President Donald Trump’s remarks about reopening Alcatraz as a prison could work to his advantage with a public yearning for tough-on-crime policies, experts say.
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sfchronicle.com | Sophia Bollag
A bill in Congress to restrict voter access would be a step backward, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber argues. Salgu Wissmath/Special to The ChronicleSACRAMENTO — President Donald Trump wants California to adopt voter identification requirements, but he faces intense opposition from top Democrats in the state, including the state’s top elections official.
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sfchronicle.com | Bob Egelko |Sophia Bollag
White House "border czar" Tom Homan speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2025. Jim Watson/TNSDemonstrators take part in the People's March for Democracy in San Francisco on April 12, 2025.
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