WITH A SHUTDOWN of the federal government by the end of the day Tuesday if Congress cannot pass a budget, the two organizations that produce San Francisco Fleet Week are making contingency plans.  

This year’s event, Oct. 5 to 13, will serve as the official West Coast celebration of the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary, commemorating a legacy of naval service in the Bay Area. The event is packed with peacetime community engagement events including tours of historic and contemporary military ships. There is a neighborhood concert program planned, with over forty performances throughout the city, and Friday and Saturday airshows featuring the Blue Angels precision demonstration squadron.  

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.