Much has changed since I exposed the blatant pay-to-play scheme at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission disguised as a social impact program (“Friends with Community Be... Read More
This was not what the city intended when it banned single-use plastic bags and told people to bring their own reusable shopping bags. The video earlier this year of a man filling ... Read More
Doing even some light research into recent California gubernatorial politics dredges up a wealth of famous names. Take Gray Davis, for example. He was succeeded in the governor’... Read More
The Booker T. Washington Community Service Center was created under the name Victory Club during World War I as a gathering spot for Black soldiers. It closed after the war and re... Read More
One can easily imagine Harry A. Franck in San Francisco. I expect he’d have felt right at home hanging out in a North Beach bar, swapping tales — many of them true — with lo... Read More
And this is where Balko announces he’s found the villain in this attack. No, not the attackers. Not the SF legal system, which still seems confused about what to do about the at... Read More
He was a homeless veteran, suffering from mental health and drug problems. And he was a danger to his neighborhood. Arrested time after time for assault and public nuisance, he he... Read More
As long as we have people who are addicted to drugs, who are willing to destroy their own bodies and their own lives, no amount of investment on the law enforcement is going to so... Read More
On January 9, 2015, four men were shot and killed inside a car in the Lower Haight near Laguna and Page streets. Police eventually arrested Lee Farley Jr. for the killings and wer... Read More
We might all have gone through this pandemic together, but we neither experienced the same things nor will our lives be the same afterward. On June 15, a month after the Center... Read More
On Jan. 1, 2021, the government should have just issued one big trigger warning for the year. Everything is going to upset you. Case in point: The recall election. Former Olymp... Read More
In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.— Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897 By now everyone is familiar with the sordid ... Read More
Hugging. Apparently there will be a lot of hugging. That’s the answer given by many people when asked what they are most looking forward to once the sheltering-at-home phase of ... Read More
When Troy McAlister ran a red light in a stolen car that struck and killed 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-year-old Hanako Abe on Dec. 31, 2020, San Francisco District Attorney... Read More
San Francisco is the new Berkeley,” said KCBS Radio reporter Bob Butler in a recent political discussion. “Remember all the times when we talked about how wacky Berkeley was f... Read More