Susan Dyer Reynolds

Election Matters with SDR

Did mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin get his dreamhouse by bullying the previous owner?

Peskin’s powerful Telegraph Hill Dwellers neighborhood group filed numerous complaints and refused to give their blessing
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Peskin used a lot of my plans that I couldn’t get approved and got them approved … So how does the project they opposed become a single-family home? I’m no fan of Aaron�... Read More
Election Matters with SDR

City funnels billions of dollars to homelessness nonprofits without requiring performance reviews

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Homelessness is not designed to be solved. It is designed to be perpetuated. It is to treat the problem, not solve it.”— Former mayor Willie Brown in the CNN documentary �... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Election ‘Rap’ up: self-proclaimed ‘progressives’ need to read the room

‘Democrats for Change’ wiped out the far left slate, taking control of San Francisco DCCC — and those coveted party endorsements
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

In the final results of San Francisco’s March 5, 2024, election, the “Democrats for Change,” or as I call them, the “Democrats for Commonsense,” nearly wiped the slate c... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Former Mayor Mark Farrell

Why he’s running, and how he plans to get San Francisco back on track
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Public safety and homelessness are the two issues I’ve heard the most about and spent the most time on as a supervisor, and without a doubt they will remain two areas of ... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Endorsements for the March 5, 2024 election

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

SAN FRANCISCO RACES Superior Court Judges  Seat 1: Albert “Chip” Zecher (Challenger) Seat 13: Jean Myungjin Roland (Challenger) Despite what the incumbents se... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Free pass to harass

Ex-wife of Don Carmignani says jury got it wrong in acquittal of attacker Garret Doty, and she’s furious
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When Garret Doty, a transient from Louisiana, was caught on security footage methodically grabbing two metal pipes, putting them together, taking practice swings, then chasing for... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Hypocrite Hill is more like Mount Everest for this year’s oxygen-deprived nominees

Hypocrite Hill is more like Mount Everest for this year’s oxygen-deprived nominees
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It may not come as a surprise, but several of the 2023 nominees for my second annual Hypocrite Hill Awards made the list in 2022. This year’s runner-up, however, isn’t an indi... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Follow the money

Shamann Walton’s YCD subsidiary got a no-bid contract on shipyard homes — but where’s the money?
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

On Dec. 17, 2014, the late Mayor Ed Lee and Lennar Urban broke ground on Pacific Pointe at the Shipyard, 60 permanently affordable family homes in Bayview-Hunters Point shipyard. ... Read More
Car break-in suspects crash after police pursuit. (Photo: SFPOA)
Reynolds Rap

Failed IPO

Break-in duo worked for DPW, earning nearly $700,000 while committing crimes
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Fate works in mysterious ways. On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, I tweeted a video on X of a brazen smash and grab near San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, one o... Read More
A rendering of the new harbor. (Photo: Rec and Park Department)
News Briefs

Controversial harbor threatens Marina Green view

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Acontentious meeting about the harbor brought out a bevy of boats but no board. District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani recused herself from representation because her husband own... Read More
Juliet Ellis and her boss and lover, Harlan Kelly (photo: https://kilamanjaro-kilamanjaro.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-are-very-serious-charges-brought.html)
Reynolds Rap

Wherefore art thou Juliet Ellis?

SFPUC Community Benefits scheme mastermind missing in action
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings!” A friend of mine with a wry sense of humor recently quoted that famous line from the 1946 Christmas classic It’s a Wonder... Read More
Reynolds Rap

CEO of the homeless industrial complex

Coalition on Homelessness boss gets residency for out-of-state unhoused to ‘keep things the same’
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

My August 2023 Reynolds Rap (“Fraudenbach: How the Coalition on Homelessness is holding San Francisco hostage”) elicited one of the strongest reactions from readers I’ve eve... Read More
Reynolds Rap

A gay icon is living in fear because of a Twitter meme

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

‘Doe 1’ posted a Western-style “Wanted Poster” of HealthRIGHT 360 V.P. Gary McCoy that resulted in a lawsuit — and a yearlong attempt to uncover his iden... Read More
Jennifer Friedenbach
Reynolds Rap

Fraudenbach: How the Coalition on Homelessness is holding San Francisco hostage

From Prop. C to a lawsuit against the city, Jennifer Friedenbach and her band of activists have no plan to solve the homeless crisis
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When CNN announced that former Bay Area reporter Sara Sidner would be coming to delve into San Francisco’s lethal cocktail of fentanyl and homelessness, I knew what to expect. ... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Former SFPUC boss Harlan Kelly heads to court

How we got here, other officials who might be nervous, and why the new U.S. attorney could squash the City Family corruption investigation
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

There’s a certain irony in the fact Harlan Kelly Jr., former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, headed to court on corruption charges June 26 — ... Read More

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