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Grant Marek
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San Francisco journalist. @sfgate.com editor-in-chief | Also: Daily Cal Board Member | Always: Cal Golden Bear | Signal: grantmarek.83
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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · Jun 25
Oh, hey, @pressgazette.co.uk in the UK wrote about what we're doing @sfgate.com.

"Rather than trying to cover the entire state from San Francisco, SFGATE has placed reporters and editors directly in the places it’s writing about. Half the newsroom is remote."
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps
SFGATE has the largest audience of any purely local news site in the US.
pressgazette.co.uk
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kqedforum.bsky.social
🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to @morgansung.bsky.social, @sfgate.com's Stephen Council, and @kjezermorton.bsky.social about friction-maxxing and how doing things the hard way can bring us more joy, serendipity and human connection.

❓How do you friction-maxx?

📻 Listen:
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January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
"Cal Poly is certainly not a football factory — Ponder is just the 32nd Mustang to play an NFL game, according to Pro Football Reference, and the school hasn’t had a player drafted since 2012."

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...
The undrafted Cal Poly prodigy who led the Patriots to the Super Bowl
"SEC schools were offering him six-figure deals and he turned them down."
www.sfgate.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
"This yurtlike architectural oddity is the only one left of its kind: the last standing Fotomat in San Francisco. And the average person doesn’t even know it exists."

via @amandabartlett.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/ar...
Cracking the mystery of the little hut on San Francisco’s Haight Street
"You'd see it on the horizon and always know what it was."
www.sfgate.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
Many news outlets have used a single podcast remark as an indicator ICE agents would be “throughout Levi’s” and have a “major, visible” presence, but SFGATE reached out to 6 law enforcement agencies who haven't heard anything to that effect.

via @leddder.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
Trump advisor’s remark becomes a viral problem for the Super Bowl
Rumors are swirling around what ICE might do at this year's Super Bowl.
www.sfgate.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
Whoa. I had no idea about the Tom Bergin's challenge to Buena Vista Cafe's Irish coffee claims.

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/california/a...
Is America's most famous Irish coffee bar actually in SF?
The caffeinated debate lingers on.
www.sfgate.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
"Within seconds, though, the size of the falling debris began to increase. The rocks were the size of doorknobs. Then grapefruits. Then soccer balls."

Wild story from @sfgate.com National Parks Bureau Chief @ashleyharrell.bsky.social:
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Massive eruption launches rock storm in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Some park visitors refused to evacuate during Kilauea's hazardous eruption.
www.sfgate.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
If advance sales for "Melania" are any indication, the theaters are set to be largely empty. Some screenings in San Francisco have yet to sell any tickets at all.

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Around SF, the Melania movie is not 'selling out, FAST' like Trump says
We looked at ticket sales at five theaters in and around San Francisco.
sfgate.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
grantmarek.bsky.social
"That meant 80,000 square feet of sod got split up into 570 rolls, with each roll weighing around a ton, loaded up into 32 trucks and driven the more than 100 miles to Santa Clara."

via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/centralcalif...
The Central Calif. business solving one of the NFL's biggest Super Bowl worries
How Super Bowl 60's look got started in California's Central Valley.
www.sfgate.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:10 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
A Shasta County man who had reportedly been active in local right-wing politics was arrested last week with a bunker and large cache of illegal weapons, according to authorities.

via @leddder.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
MAGA activist in Shasta County arrested after discovery of bunker
The California Highway Patrol called the weapons a threat to public safety.
www.sfgate.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 AM
grantmarek.bsky.social
A long shadow looms over a new generation of college students.

via @madilynnemedina.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
The pandemic's hidden damage is showing up on college campuses
Experts warn the effects could linger for years.
www.sfgate.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
As people outside the Target Center in Minneapolis on Sunday continued protesting the killing of a man by federal immigration agents, the effects were felt inside as well during the Golden State Warriors’ game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...
One of the most bizarre, sad games': Warriors' Kerr on mood in Minneapolis
Fans in Minneapolis shouted “F—k ICE” during a moment of silence for Alex Pretti.
www.sfgate.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 AM
grantmarek.bsky.social
“Scientists aren’t sure yet what caused the early bloom, or what the impacts will be on the trees’ ability to bear fruit — and they’re asking the public to help solve the mystery.”

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That’s bad news.
Joshua trees rely on a single moth species to reproduce.
www.sfgate.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
The NBA has postponed Saturday's scheduled game between the Golden State Warriors and the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in the city.

via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...
Warriors game in Minnesota postponed after another ICE shooting
The NBA is moving Saturday's scheduled game back a day.
www.sfgate.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:11 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
Yosemite employees are now required to “keep the Licensed Space at all times clean, safe, free of dirt, free of modifications and damage, free of trash and personal property.” Yes, you need to keep your home free of personal property or risk eviction.

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
"It's basically like a big f—k you."
www.sfgate.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Reposted by Grant Marek
gilduran.com
Seventy percent of Solano County residents oppose California Forever, a tech utopia proposed by a billionaire-funded company.

But the project is planning to steamroll the local community with help from Trump and construction unions.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
New Bay Area city of 400,000 could be built 'non-stop' for 40 years
California Forever's plan includes housing for more than 400,000 people.
www.sfgate.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
Yosemite employees could be fired for refusing to comply with Aramark's new housing policy.

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
"It's basically like a big f—k you."
www.sfgate.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Grant Marek
drewmagary.bsky.social
Good morning. Bari Weiss is scum. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I'm sorry but you need to know who Bari Weiss is
"It's time to play a little game of Know Your Enemy."
www.sfgate.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:57 AM
grantmarek.bsky.social
The DOI's plan “includes as many as 34 potential offshore lease sales ... covering approximately 1.27 billion acres. That includes 21 areas off the coast of Alaska, seven in the Gulf of America, and six along the Pacific coast."

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
Trump admin quietly attempts to open the entire Calif. coast to oil drilling
"We've stopped this before, and we can do it again."
www.sfgate.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee was detained at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, the team confirmed.

via @alexsimonsports.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...
SF Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by Customs at LAX
Lee is traveling from South Korea back to California for a Giants fan event.
www.sfgate.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 AM
grantmarek.bsky.social
5th grade field trip Grant would be so fired up about this article.

via @farleyelliott.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...
Can LA's La Brea Tar Pits be fixed in time for the Olympics?
The race to remake a historic California site.
www.sfgate.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:55 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
I ate 100 breakfast sandwiches in San Francisco in a quest to find the city’s best. I never found one quite like this delicious offering at new breakfast sandwich spot Hatched.

My latest for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/food/article...
Just-opened Palo Alto breakfast sandwich spot has a genius new business model
And a signature breakfast sandwich that's one of the Peninsula's best.
www.sfgate.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
"Just the fact he hasn’t thrown a football over 48 hours before a playoff game — listen this guy’s never won a playoff game. To go to that length, it’s not insignificant, this is not nothing." - ESPN analyst/ex-49ers QB Alex Smith on Sam Darnold

via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/49ers/articl...
Injured Darnold hasn't thrown a pass in 48 hours. One ex-49ers QB is worried.
"He hasn’t thrown a football over 48 hours before a playoff game."
www.sfgate.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:52 PM
grantmarek.bsky.social
"Although he didn’t know it at the time, he was being recruited as part of a project code-named Aerodynamic, an attempt by the CIA to convince Soviet athletes to defect to the West. Sime's target: 22-year-old Ukrainian Igor Ter-Ovanesyan."

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/49ers/articl...
The dark, fascinating life of Christian McCaffrey's grandfather
Few NFL players have a relative as strange and dark as Dave Sime.
www.sfgate.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Reposted by Grant Marek
divesofourlives.bsky.social
Nice little article on the Burlingame bar American Bull.
From @sfgate.com
grantmarek.bsky.social Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 14d
This was a tough one to write.

"Tucked away in the same display case as the Mantle and DiMaggio balls is his first and only home run as a little leaguer. His dad put it in there the day after he hit it. 'He passed away a week and a half later.'"

for @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/49ers/articl...
The tragic backstory of one of the Bay Area's best 49ers bars
"The community has really rallied around us."
www.sfgate.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Grant Marek
scattercushion.bsky.social
🏜️My first feature for @sfgate.com, and such an important story. For decades, the inventory & monitoring program has ensured that parks are being managed based on the best available science. Now, that effort is being threatened.
Trump admin strips key science data from America's national parks
The inventory and monitoring program steers decisions in the national park system.
www.sfgate.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM