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On July 4th, we wandered across the city to hear from residents.
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Skateboarders jumping over used fireworks, people climbing traffic lights for better views, & lots and lots of Modelos.
The parties, pyrotechnics, and police response in the Mission District for July 4 — in photos.
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San Francisco police officers shut down the annual street fireworks shows in the Mission District this year, as they do most years.
Officers moved block by block, giving dispersal orders & yelling "Move!" The crowds retreated quickly, & soon thinned.
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San Francisco police dispersed July 4 fireworks crowds in the Mission District this year, as happens most years.
Lines of riot cops w/batons moved down 24th St. The revelers, which had been partying w/pyrotechnics & street beers, retreated quickly.
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Jul 4
Many museums are open on July 4. Look closely and explore!
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Jul 4
San Francisco immigration hotline loses funding in mayor’s final budget
The nonprofit lost its funding because it failed to get its request in time, according to its executive director’s account of a conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office.
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The Golden State Valkyries are building on what appears to be a promising season
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Protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge in 2024 were found guilty of several misdemeanors Thursday, but jurors were deadlocked on the felony charges against them.
They could face up to five years in prison.
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Jul 2
For months, Ring cameras around Bernal Heights have captured something strange: a shadowy figure stealing sidewalk sewer vent grates.
Who is this mystery man? And why is he stealing worthless bits of metal?
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S.F. supervisors on Tuesday postponed voting on a 362-page ordinance that would have made well over a hundred changes to the city code.
Several raised concerns that the proposal was so broad, they did not even understand what was being changed.
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A huge thanks to @esquire: Here's my debut article in which we tell the story of American history through the lens of San Francisco's Mission Dolores.
And a huge thanks to @MLNow for allowing me to work on this.
Please enjoy: esquire.com/news-politics/a7…
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Jun 30
It's a long way from home for Ahmed Ali Mazen, who left his farming village in Palestine decades ago.
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San Francisco artists warned a new city policy would force them to pay for projects up front, potentially saddling them with debt.
The city is now reconsidering.
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Jun 30
Mission Local has retracted two articles on the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center. The articles did not meet our standards.
We apologize for the way in which we approached both stories, & have undertaken a review to ensure it does not happen again.
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San Francisco police officers arrested 20 people Saturday night at a 300-person Pride "Stud Alley" block party in SoMa.
Officers wearing tactical gear ran into the crowd. The vast majority were arrested for not dispersing.
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Jun 29
Oldest panadería on 24th St. has the taste of home
La Mexicana Bakery has served the Mission for 54 years, and one employee moonlights as a musician with dreams bigger than the bakery.
By @clarasophiadaly
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Jun 29
San Francisco Pride, day 3: The parade, corporations galore, and Scott Wiener returns after being chased off earlier this weekend.
Read dispatches from Sunday.
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Jun 28
What's the most popular dog in San Francisco? According to city data, it's the chihuahua — ruling the east while labradors dominate the west.
But go to any dog park and a third breed has quietly taken over, and the data doesn't even know it exists: missionlocal.org/2026/06/san…
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Meet Megan Prelinger, a local archivist who feels more than nostalgia for the 50,000 historical items she has collected at a former warehouse in SoMa.
How else to understand the present, and reimagine the future, than by examining relics of the past?
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