Stephanie K. Baer

A killing at Palisades: How a Black employee was slain by cops at Tahoe’s biggest resort A visa worker spent two seasons at one of California’s premier mountains, until a mental health crisis led to a tragedy.

A killing at Palisades: How a Black employee was slain by cops at Tahoe’s biggest resort

Aggrieved drivers are losing it over ‘aggressive’ parking-ticket push The SFMTA has seen a $16 million increase in revenue from parking tickets over the last 12 months. Said one resident: “It’s fucking war now.”

Aggrieved drivers are losing it over ‘aggressive’ parking-ticket push

SF may ground Fleet Week funding amid city budget crisis The city funds the event's preparedness exercises between San Francisco’s emergency staffers and the Department of Defense.

SF may ground Fleet Week funding amid city budget crisis

We hunted for buried treasure. The real prize was the crypto-pirates we met along the way The booty, worth $10,000, was found just 11 hours after organizers posted the clues.

We hunted for buried treasure. The real prize was the crypto-pirates we met along the way

‘A slap to the face’: Families say Zuckerberg-backed school to close as couple pulls funds Families said they learned that the tech couple was moving its money elsewhere, forcing the Primary School to close, in a Zoom call last week.

‘A slap to the face’: Families say Zuckerberg-backed school to close as couple pulls funds

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Deadly Cybertruck crash: Teen driver was drunk, on cocaine, tox report shows The driver, 19-year-old Soren Dixon, had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.195%, according to a toxicology report.

Deadly Cybertruck crash: Teen driver was drunk, on cocaine, tox report shows

Her son died ‘surfing’ BART trains. Now she’s suing the agency The lawsuit says the trains should be “equipped with monitors, sensors, or alarms” to prevent someone from accessing the train’s exterior. 

Her son died ‘surfing’ BART trains. Now she’s suing the agency

Chaos, fear, and thousands of calls: Inside the network verifying ICE raid rumors Rumors, ICE sightings, trolls and concerned citizens.

Reporter @jonahowenlamb.bsky.social spent a day alongside workers of SF's Rapid Response Network, which verifies ICE raid rumors. His peek behind the scenes is fascinating: sfstandard.com/2025/02/05/i...

‘I’m going to die on Ninth Street.’ Shot 7 times, a man makes a miraculous recovery “I don’t even know if Jack Reacher could’ve written this,” a friend said of a 47-year-old’s miraculous recovery.

“I kept thinking to myself, ‘I can’t believe I’m gonna die on Ninth Street,’ like, holy shit, I’m dying on Ninth Street,” Vapor Room founder Martin Olive recalled, adding that there are nicer parts of the city in which to take your last breath.

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Forget the Valencia bikeway: The new ‘neckdown’ is driving motorists crazy A traffic-calming measure that narrows Kirkham Street from two lanes to one proves controversial.

Forget the Valencia bikeway: The new ‘neckdown’ is driving motorists crazy

Parking vigilantes are painting curbs red — a local says he spotted the culprits Vigilantes have painted several curbs red in the Richmond,

Parking vigilantes are painting curbs red — a local says he spotted the culprits

Driving SF city workers are hitting pedestrians at an alarming rate The Standard obtained 151 claims from pedestrians and cyclists who say a driving city worker hit them with their vehicle. The cases have cost the city $40 million, so far.

Despite the city spending hundreds of millions of dollars and transforming miles of streetscape, 2024 is set to be one of the deadliest traffic years in recent memory.

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SF is losing a generation of Black men to overdoses. It’s worse here than anywhere San Francisco is losing a generation of elder Black men to the deadly fentanyl overdose crisis. It's worse here than anywhere.

SF's overdose crisis has hit Black men born 1951-1970 harder than any other demographic in America. They're 32x more likely to die from an overdose than the average American, despite being <1% of SF's population.

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Embarcadero murder suspect caught on BART without ticket The SFPD booked a 36-year-old man into jail Sunday, hours after he was detained at an East Bay station.

SFPD has confirmed the murder suspect arrested by BART PD for not having a ticket was wanted in the Nov. 13 fatal stabbing at the Embarcadero. sfstandard.com/2024/11/25/e...

Update: Wynne’s arrest sprang from an investigation that named him as a suspect in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old, according to a police report viewed by The Standard.

SF's most arrested homeless man sleeps outside childhood home San Francisco police have arrested one homeless man five times since the city launched a crackdown on sidewalk encampments. But the man continues to return to the scene because it's next to his childh...

Earnest alert: Geoffrey Frye is the most arrested homeless person since San Francisco’s crackdown started this year.

He and his mom’s heartbreaking story is a microcosm of the crisis that keeps people on the city’s streets.

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I rode Muni's new, free on-demand shuttle — and it was magical There’s an on-demand public transit option in one of the city’s least-connected neighborhoods.

Waiting for a bus is rarely fun, and apparently, some San Franciscans aren’t keen on paying the fare, either. Now one part of the city has a free shuttle service you can hail through an app. - @allaboutgeorge.bsky.social

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SF's most arrested homeless man sleeps outside childhood home San Francisco police have arrested one homeless man five times since the city launched a crackdown on sidewalk encampments. But the man continues to return to the scene because it's next to his childh...

Really moving story from the @sfstandard.com's David Sjostedt:

San Francisco's most arrested homeless man sleeps outside his childhood home.

“This is all he knows. He loves it here,” his mother said.

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Sam Altman tapped for Lurie's transition team San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie on Sunday named OpenAI boss Sam Altman to his transition team Monday.

Breaking: Sam Altman joins Mayor-elect Lurie’s transition team. #sfnews #sfpol

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Finally, a San Francisco home in my price range There’s no water or electricity, and it’s burned to a crisp, but at least it’s near public transit and restaurants. And at $300,000, I could actually afford it.

"A fire-gutted shack in San Francisco with no bathroom, kitchen, running water, or electricity can be yours — or dare I say mine? — for $299,000."

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San Francisco isn't ready for Trump’s mass deportation plans Even before Trump takes office, the waitlist of undocumented immigrants seeking legal representation in SF is over 1,000 people. Many are already in removal proceedings.

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has been silent on Trump’s deportation plans and implications for S.F.

One lawyer called it “disheartening”

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