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Covers:  Politics, tech, environment. Mostly California and the West.
Author, Last Night in San Francisco (2025, Steerforth Press) www.scottlucas.me/

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Scott Lucas’s Journalist Portfolio

Can Code Be Art?

Can Code Be Art?

Scott Lucas | Photo: Frame: iStock | May 5, 2016 In 2013, a painter named Fernando Cwilich Gil stumbled upon …

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The Daly Show Las Vegas

The Daly Show Las Vegas

Scott Lucas | Photo: Courtesy of S.F. Board of Supervisors/Getty Images | February 23, 2016 The gleaming mono…

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Articles

Live with Monique Camarra

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By Zarina Zabrisky, Monique Camarra, Scott Lucas, Heidi Cuda
| Prevail with Greg Olear
, and many others for tuning into my live video with ! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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Opinion | Super Smash Francisco: Recasting the city's icons as Nintendo characters

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By Scott Lucas, Jesse Rogala Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Published May 26, 2024 • 2:00pm On Friday, beloved video game company Nintendo announced it would be opening its second-ever retail store in the United States in San Francisco. (Doom loop? More like a kaboom loop!) Like many of you, we’re pretty excited. So excited, in fact, we started thinking about which San Francisco icons could play which Nintendo characters. Here, we present our scientifically unimpeachable results. Obviously, the Splash Bros.
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Opinion | 'I, Gavin': Gov. Newsom pens the political memoir of our dreams

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By Scott Lucas
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Published May 17, 2024 • 6:00am Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would publish an autobiography sometime after the 2024 presidential election. Newsom’s planned memoir has added to the speculation that he will be running for president, but the book’s contents have not been disclosed—until now. Thanks to The San Francisco Standard’s innovative reporting techniques (we read a lot of fan fiction), we can now reveal these exclusive excerpts from Newsom’s life story.
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National Magazine Award

2015 - Single-Topic Issue

Winner. "The Oakland Issue," June 2015.

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National Magazine Award

2016 - Single-Topic Issue

Finalist. "The Chinese-American City," April 2016.

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National Magazine Award

2016 - General Excellence (Service and Lifestyle)

Finalist. April, November, December 2016.

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Education Writers Association

2015 - Single-Topic News or Feature (Medium Staff)

Children in Crisis. Las Vegas Sun.

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