San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has done an outstanding job as D.A. and deserves to be elected on November 8. I speak for myself as a Vietnamese American and Asian ... Read More
Prop. M will make more rental units available in our city and will likely raise new funds for low-income renters and for low-income housing projects. It is a targeted measure, see... Read More
City College is an indispensable, much-beloved institution, and taxpayers have time and time again been very generous. San Francisco already pays for Free City. Last year, CCSF re... Read More
ANGELA’S ASHES I read your Alioto story in the October issue [“Angela Alioto on the 25th anniversary of the smoking ban,” Reynolds Rap]. Angela certainly deserves great credi... Read More
I just finished [Susan Reynolds’s] fine piece on the Café des Amis, and the Marina/Cow Hollow restaurant scene in general [“The real story behind closing Café des Ami... Read More
NOT SO SKETCHY Lately I have been reading “Sketches from a North Beach Journal” by Ernest Beyl in the Marina Times. Last month lo and behold is his best — “The ... Read More
First, George Lucas had no plan for the museum [“When did S.F. become the no-go city?” Marina Times, July 2014, page 7]. Would it contain souvenirs from his childhood? ... Read More
Sadly, we must share with your wonderful animal-friendly newspaper mention of the profoundly devastating and untimely loss of Virginia Handley, who for 40 years headed the S.F. bra... Read More
Bubble III The Commonwealth Club’s opinions as reported in the article “Mid-Year Economic Forecast” (Business & Finance, September 2013, page 13) presented a ... Read More
Keep The Arboretum Free Recipe for Theft of the Commons. Serves class interests of a few thousand. Hire well-connected lobbyist Sam Lauter. Pay him hundreds of thousands for years.... Read More
SFMTA parking woes Dear Editor: The currently in-place and out of balance, heavy and excessively loaded parking and meter fees, tickets, fines, penalties etc., is already too much.... Read More
The Polk Polka In “Polk Street Latest Site for Parking, Biker Clash” (News, April 2013), I seemed to be one opponent in a boxing ring, so I’d like to restate that... Read More