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In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. The news: SF the only county where Elder didn't lead as recall replacement candidate; pockets of low vaccination rates might explain neighborhood's overall high case rates; DBI scrutinized on multiple fronts; BART plans progressive policing; SF retirement fund invested in so-called "vulture" hedge funds. Coming up: Tenant advocates urge renters to apply for COVID assistance; transit agency to hold office hours and open houses on 2022 plans.

In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. The news: Recology fined; no in-school COVID-19 transmissions recorded; overdose crisis. Coming up: Transit Month, Stern Grove repair considerations; meeting to discuss improvements on Geary.

As wildfires rage, unprecedented heat waves become deadly and cities are drowned, climate worry is turning to climate grief for many people. We talk to a young Bay Area climate activist and a psychiatrist about how we move forward in a world in which the climate change threat has become a climate crisis reality.

Pandemic or no, sanitation workers are still collecting the city's waste material. Back in April, Civic hitched an early morning ride with Recology recycling driver Gareth Willey to get a sense for how the pandemic has changed his work. While the decreased traffic had made the streets a little less crowded, the bins he emptied have been piled high with cardboard boxes from mail orders.

In What's New & What's Next, the Civic team offers a roundup of San Francisco news and a look at what's ahead on the city's calendar. The news: COVID cases decline; advocates call for safe consumption sites; DoorDash drivers rally; judgment against landlord for tenant harassment upheld; half-off transit fares. Coming up: CA recall election; protest scheduled for more shelter-in-place hotels; proposed "ghost gun" ordinance; Tenderloin group housing project appeal; large SoMa project seeks approval.

Every city is special in some way to the people who call it home, but as author Gary Kamiya writes, San Francisco is a more potent touchstone than most thanks to the unique place it occupies in the American imagination. In the new anthology “The End of the Golden Gate,” writers including W. Kamau Bell, Margaret Cho and Michelle Tea reflect on a city in flux. Kamiya and writer and artist John Law talk about gentrification, loving the city, and the message newcomers often hear that San Francisco peaked just before their arrival.