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Josh Koehn

@josh_koehn

Sr. Political Reporter for @sfstandard. Past: Reporter for @theinformation — Comms for @Evan_Low — Editor @sfchronicle — Editor @metronewspaper & @sanjoseinside

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Here, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez + Josh Koehn dive into how Daniel Lurie's budget collides with the new reality of ICE arrests. The mayor has maintained that cuts are necessary, but what happens when some of those cuts go toward immigrant and legal services? 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/san…

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NEW: Harmeet Dhillon, the head of Civil Rights in U.S., is one of the most complex political figures I’ve profiled. How a conservative immigrant in San Francisco went full MAGA to lead Trump’s culture wars—and what this means for civil rights & elections sfstandard.com/2025/06/23/har…

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After spending the last decade suing everyone under the sun, Harmeet Dhillon — the new head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division — is inarguably equipped to wage Trump’s culture wars. 📝: Josh Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/06/23/har…

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The Golden Gate Bridge CEO’s efforts to purge DEI language and policies suggest that the Trump administration’s aggressive actions are having the intended chilling effect. sfstandard.com/2025/06/24/gol…

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NEW: On paper, San Francisco's twisty skyscraper was executed perfectly. Unique facade. Sold out condos. Cool retail. But less than five years since it's opened, the Mira has already landed on a mortgage blacklist. What gives? 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/06/24/san…

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The Trump administration's overt war on "DEI" has the folks at the Golden Gate Bridge scared that the anti-racist resolutions they passed will cost them their federal funding. This is happening in all parts of the private sector Josh Koehn 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/06/24/gol…

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NEW: Zohran Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primary for New York mayor has some San Francisco political observers spiraling. The city is fresh off its own progressive experiment & some of SF's loudest critics say the Big Apple is in for a rotten turn. sfstandard.com/2025/06/25/zoh…

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Once again, tech CEOs and venture capitalists are wildly out of touch with public opinion in San Francisco. From my perspective, I've never seen so many San Franciscans posting excitedly about a political victory — moderate voters, progressive voters, and apolitical folks alike.

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JUST IN: State Sen. Scott Wiener filed paperwork Friday to run for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress in 2028. But if Pelosi decides to retire, the San Francisco state senator could transfer his warchest into a 2026 committee. sfstandard.com/2025/06/27/nan…

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Scott Wiener has officially filed paperwork to run for Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress — the only question is when The filing is "to prepare for the serious work of running to succeed one of the icons of American politics,” he said ✍️Josh Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/06/27/nan…

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They tried to pitch a 50-story tower in the Sunset. Now they’re filing for bankruptcy. The test case that pissed off both NIMBYs and YIMBYs takes another strange turn 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/07/02/out…

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Breaking: A San Francisco official gets paid up to $100K a year by an architecture firm while approving its projects on the planning commission. sfstandard.com/2025/07/03/san…

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Here's The San Francisco Standard's Margaux MacColl with the best story yet on the Soham Parekh saga. How a perfect-on-paper engineer fooled startup after startup into hiring him. Was he a scammer or just "overemployed"? sfstandard.com/2025/07/04/eng…

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Are we hiring the same guy? All over Silicon Valley, companies are realizing they've been bamboozled by the same gifted coder, often at the same time. 📝: Margaux MacColl sfstandard.com/2025/07/04/eng…