Connor Letourneau

Thirteen years after changing his name to "Barack Obama," an Alameda man is running for California governor. Here's his story: sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

yet another beautifully written story from @DanBarryNYT -- one of the best to ever do it

▫ Ghost campus pins hopes on new leader ▫@Con_Chron ▫is.gd/12cDGp @sfchronicle #frontpagestoday #USA 🇺🇸

"At a time when less-selective state universities in the Bay Area are feeling the brunt of the region’s shrinking college applicant pipeline, no school has been harder-hit than Sonoma State" sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

This Bay Area university has become a ‘ghost town.’ Can a new president save it? By @Con_Chron Photos: @Lea_Suzuki sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Sixteen months after enduring far-reaching cuts, Sonoma State's campus life has become what some students simply describe as a "ghost town." Can a new president jolt this once-thriving school back to life? sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

▫ Closure notice stuns worshippers ▫East Bay parishioners were optimistic for the future. Then came the closure notice ▫@Con_Chron ▫is.gd/6Hmm1s @sfchronicle #frontpagestoday #USA 🇺🇸

So proud of team @sfchronicle. Well-deserved @susieneilson, @meganfanmunce and @sara_dinatale!

This was supposed to be a festive year at St. Stephen Catholic Church. Yet, there pastor Lee Chompoochan was at Sunday's Mass, encouraging churchgoers to pick up a copy of a recent letter detailing the once-unthinkable: St. Stephen will soon shutter. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

ICYMI: I wrote on San Francisco's booming luxury dogcare industry, and what it says about a city where loneliness, cramped living and wealth often intersect.

Dogs outnumber kids in San Francisco. Now their luxury doggie day care costs nearly as much By @Con_Chron Photos: @jachristian sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

I wrote something about the great work of @akoseff and @SophiaBollag ‘Keep digging’: How the Chronicle broke the Eric Swalwell story sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

NEW: Appearing at a Southern California press conference, a woman alleges congressman Eric Swalwell drugged and raped her By @abauman2 and @SophiaBollag sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

During a meeting at a senior center in downtown Vacaville last month, according to attendees and video reviewed by the Chronicle, anti-Muslim activists handed out white sheets of paper comparing Islam to the Antichrist. An older white man sent a capacity crowd of roughly 300 people into an uproar when he proclaimed that a new mosque “is not going to happen here!” A middle-aged woman held up pages she’d printed out showing Google results for “Islamic terrorism.” They were all there because the Vacaville Islamic Center is outgrowing the small green house it has occupied at 133 Bush St. for 29 years. By seeking city approval for a self-funded $1.5 million expansion project that would increase their prayer space fivefold, mosque leaders unknowingly made themselves targets and exposed the city’s long-simmering racial tensions. 📸: Don Feria/For the S.F. Chronicle

They thought the Bay Area was welcoming. Then they tried to expand their mosque By @Con_Chron sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

A plan to expand an Islamic center for a growing Muslim community revealed simmering tensions in the Bay Area. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

They Thought the Bay Area Was Welcoming. Then They Tried to Expand Their Mosque sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via @sfchronicle

Gangbuster five days at the San Francisco Chronicle. Want to support work like this? By journalists like @akoseff @SophiaBollag @stjbs @kolyn_cheang @annievain @cesarischafa @namisumida and many more? Digital subscriptions start at less than $1. Go to subscription.sfchronicle.com.

“You can’t help but kind of wonder: Does the community I love actually hate me, and I just never really knew it?” For nearly 30 years, Muslims in Vacaville worshipped in a small green house without incident. Then they tried to expand their mosque. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

America’s capital of ‘super-commuters’ is in California. Now many are hitting a crisis point By @Con_Chron sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…