Kate Sommers-Dawes

dme @sfexaminer Fmr: copy editor @axios, freelance @TIME, deputy digital ed @AFARmedia, dme @Mashable. @NorthwesternU. All the best words.

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

TLDR? @cigna, call me. You have my number. Let’s wrap this up and move on with our lives. Fin.

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

Any health policy journos or regulators (👋 @cdinews @ricardolara4ca) on here interested in a (probably not unique!) Kafkaesque tale of six months (and counting!) trying to get @cigna to reimburse an allegedly covered medical expense? 🧵1/9

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

Or perhaps I’m just in a weird little purgatory, since this process has taken so long that we’ve switched providers and I’m no longer a customer, so I just keep getting bumped to the bottom of the priority list? Either way seems … outside the bounds of the service paid for. 8/9

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

Cannot overstate how much I loved this food — far better than a Michelin-starred spot I tried the same week. Here’s hoping Ancora reincarnates elsewhere in SF 🤟🏼

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

Co-owner Joe Conte said Ancora, which opened to lots of buzz at 557 Valencia St. last July, saw sales drop off during the winter storms in early January and never recovered.
https://t.co/oDz1kNDs2Y

[Megan Cassidy @meganrcassidy]

Another SFDA employee resigns; by my count this is 7 since DA Jenkins took office. This is in addition to the 15 who were fired

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

When you volunteer to recall your boss then get your boss’ job then disclose a $100k payment is it still volunteering https://t.co/33wYDZVkfs via @meganrosedickey

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

Slow Streets 4eva https://t.co/nMOqtzNWsk

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

“If I'm experiencing postpartum depression, I'm detoxing and I have a mental health disability, how would solitary confinement be a good fit for me?” Important reporting via ⁦@sfchronicle⁩
https://t.co/1nLIGQQ1MF

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

Noooooooooooo dot com https://t.co/eWP4E8djrS

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

“It can feel lonely being one of the few Black people in the city, but San Francisco is my home.” A bit about how the city has changed over the decades, from the brand-spankin’ new @axios SF https://t.co/kxuSqutxQE

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

“San Francisco is a kinky city, and this fair is our dirty little secret.” Compliments to ⁦@SamWhitingSF⁩ for this A+ perfect SF story https://t.co/j1s8f6zwyJ

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

What happens when an S.F. restaurant adds fees to cover a livable wage for its employees https://t.co/gRfsDq4fqg

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

.@axios San Francisco is finally en route to your inboxes! Sign up below for all you need to know about the 7x7 https://t.co/5NrYeZTI3z

[Kate Sommers-Dawes @TheRealKSD]

The 2022-est story 😭 https://t.co/aye3Qm5JKB