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Dai Sugano

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Staff photojournalist at The Mercury News @mercnews in San Jose, Calif., covering news in the Bay Area. Posts are of news, not endorsement.

 San Jose, Calif. USA
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Joined December 2010
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Photos: Veterans Day celebration in Alameda mercurynews.com/2025/11/11/p… #veteransday #USSHornet
Photos: Veterans Day celebration in Alameda

Photos: Veterans Day celebration in Alameda

USS Hornet commemorates Veterans Day

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In-person work takes big leap in the Bay Area mercurynews.com/2025/10/13/i…
In-person work takes big leap in the Bay Area

In-person work takes big leap in the Bay Area

A new poll suggests remote work is fading, and even hybrid models are losing ground.

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After pandemic gloom, are Bay Area residents feeling more optimistic about the region? mercurynews.com/2025/10/06/p…
After pandemic gloom, are Bay Area residents feeling more optimistic about the region?

After pandemic gloom, are Bay Area residents feeling more optimistic about the region?

Half of those surveyed agree the region is headed in the right direction, an uptick from previous polls.

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High cost of living forces Bay Area residents to delay medical procedures, having kids mercurynews.com/2025/10/05/h…
High cost of living forces Bay Area residents to delay medical procedures, having kids

High cost of living forces Bay Area residents to delay medical procedures, having kids

Bay Area poll: Residents are adjusting their lives to compensate for the region’s outsized expenses — everything from housing to electricity seems to cost more here than almost anywhere else.

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Sales tax to help fund Bay Area transit appears to be headed for 2026 ballot mercurynews.com/2025/09/15/s…
Sales tax to help fund Bay Area transit appears to be headed for 2026 ballot

Sales tax to help fund Bay Area transit appears to be headed for 2026 ballot

The half-cent sales tax would help raise revenues for struggling transit systems that still haven’t recovered ridership since the pandemic

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Where We Live: The Valkyries' purple madness mercurynews.com/2025/08/31/w…
Where We Live: The Valkyries’ purple madness

Where We Live: The Valkyries’ purple madness

In their inaugural season, the Golden State Valkyries have drawn sellout crowds night after night as fans flock to see the Bay Area’s newest team. The characters who arrive at Chase Center showcase...

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The Eichler Effect: Why Bay Area homeowners are wild about their Eichlers mercurynews.com/2025/08/29/t…
The Eichler Effect: Why Bay Area homeowners are wild about their Eichlers

The Eichler Effect: Why Bay Area homeowners are wild about their Eichlers

These sleek, modernist suburban homes, built for the masses after World War II, have a devoted following.

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Does this small city have the Bay Area’s worst homelessness problem? mercurynews.com/2025/08/24/g…
Does this small city have the Bay Area’s worst homelessness problem?

Does this small city have the Bay Area’s worst homelessness problem?

Gilroy has the highest homelessness compared to its population in the region, but lacks the resources to help it deal with that problem.

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Happy World Photography Day! Photo by Dai Sugano / @daisugano
Image from Dai Sugano (@daisugano)
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Human Pegivirus may be environmental trigger for Parkinson's disease mercurynews.com/2025/07/10/h…
Human Pegivirus may be environmental trigger for Parkinson’s disease

Human Pegivirus may be environmental trigger for Parkinson’s disease

Northwestern Medicine find HPgV in brain samples of people with Parkinson’s, not in those without.

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Only one of Bay Area's three main downtowns has bounced back to nearly prepandemic levels mercurynews.com/2025/07/06/o…
Only one of Bay Area’s three main downtowns has bounced back to nearly prepandemic levels

Only one of Bay Area’s three main downtowns has bounced back to nearly prepandemic levels

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose are dealing with similar problems of vacant offices and homelessness, but one of them has reported foot traffic bouncing back after the pandemic as they execute...

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Finding connections, 50 years after the fall of Saigon mercurynews.com/2025/04/27/c…
Finding connections, 50 years after the fall of Saigon

Finding connections, 50 years after the fall of Saigon

Her quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have loaded her onto a C-130 and life in America.

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The Bay Area's deadliest local roads — and what's being done to make them safer mercurynews.com/2025/03/26/d…
The Bay Area’s deadliest local roads — and what’s being done to make them safer

The Bay Area’s deadliest local roads — and what’s being done to make them safer

Transportation officials have been working to improve safety on some large, busy thoroughfares that have a bloody history of deadly auto collisions.

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New Parkinson’s treatment developed at Stanford could help millions: Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation isn’t a cure — but it’s a total game changer mercurynews.com/2025/03/23/n… #Parkinson #parkinsonsdisease #aDBS #treatment #Stanford
New Parkinson’s treatment developed at Stanford could help millions

New Parkinson’s treatment developed at Stanford could help millions

Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation isn’t a cure — but it’s a total game changer.

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Where We Live: Nature illuminated at Coyote Hills Regional Park mercurynews.com/2025/01/26/w…
Where We Live: Nature illuminated at Coyote Hills Regional Park

Where We Live: Nature illuminated at Coyote Hills Regional Park

The magic begins at sunset, the “Golden Hour” at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont is a photographer’s favorite light.

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How to help people impacted by the Los Angeles fires mercurynews.com/2025/01/10/h…
How to help people impacted by the Los Angeles fires

How to help people impacted by the Los Angeles fires

As the Palisades and Eaton fires rage on, here are organizations accepting donations to help.

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2024: High School Sports in Pictures mercurynews.com/2024/12/29/2… Photos by @mercnews @EastBayTimes photographers
2024: High School Sports in Pictures

2024: High School Sports in Pictures

What a year 2024 was for Bay Area high school sports. It started with Archbishop Mitty’s girls basketball program having one of the most dominant seasons in recent memory, while the Salesian Pride...

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2024: A look back at Bay Area images that made our year mercurynews.com/2024/12/28/2…
2024: A look back at Bay Area images that made our year

2024: A look back at Bay Area images that made our year

2024 was a year of joyous celebrations, tearful farewells and impactful decisions that could forever change our lives and those that come after. Among some of the more difficult departures were in...

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Wish Book: How can foster kids prepare for life after they leave the system? A new South Bay nonprofit has a plan mercurynews.com/2024/12/03/w…
Wish Book: How can foster kids prepare for life after they leave the system? A new South Bay...

Wish Book: How can foster kids prepare for life after they leave the system? A new South Bay...

Ambitious effort hopes to launch a pilot program in the Bay Area – focusing on teens from Santa Clara, Alameda, San Mateo, San Francisco and Contra Costa counties – by 2026.

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Photos: Joy, sorrow and more on display as Election Night results roll in mercurynews.com/2024/11/06/p…
Photos: Joy, sorrow and more on display as Election Night results roll in

Photos: Joy, sorrow and more on display as Election Night results roll in

Voters throughout the Bay Area reacted to both local and national elections on Tuesday night.

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