How a vocal community and a supervisor who listened sent an encampment packing

In May, I received dozens of emails from neighbors of the Marina Safeway about open air drug use and sales, stolen goods, fights, and assaults at an encampment that popped up behi... Read More

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Knockout blow

As newsrooms make cuts, the coronavirus may finish what the Internet started

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

There are numerous cases throughout history where people got it wrong. Very wrong. Take for example Michael Dell. At the Gartner Symposium on Oct. 6, 1997, the founder of Dell Inc... Read More

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You can’t fool Mother Nature

Our mistreatment of animals will be the end of us

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousi... Read More

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Mayor London Breed’s legacy

Will it be corruption and cronyism or cleaning up City Hall?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When I wrote my April 2019 Reynolds Rap column suggesting Mayor London Breed should fire Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru after decades of corruption and incompete... Read More

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DPW boss Mohammed Nuru finally swept to the curb, but not by Mayor Breed

Once again, the Feds clean up San Francisco’s mess

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Despite ethical missteps, misappropriated taxpayer funds, lawsuits, and incompetence as the leader of street cleaning in one of the world’s filthiest cities, the mayor continues ... Read More

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Gotham by the bay

With a rampant drug crisis and ineffective leadership, it will take a superhero to save San Francisco

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

This past September, police made a horrifying discovery inside a Santa Rosa home: Patrick O’Neill was unresponsive, and his 13-month-old son, Liam, was dead. O’Neill later died... Read More

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Johnny Mathis comes home for the holidays

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It’s hard to imagine the holidays without Johnny Mathis. From “The Christmas Song” (“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) to “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” his smoot... Read More

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Cirque du Soleil

With rambling diatribes on cultural appropriation, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Soleil Ho makes a mockery of food criticism

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When the San Francisco Chronicle decided to replace food critic Michael Bauer, I wasn’t alone in thinking “It’s about time.” After all, the New York Times had six food cri... Read More

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Are the candidates for San Francisco district attorney tough enough?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Current San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón’s decision not to run for reelection makes this Nov. 5 more important than ever. Not since William Langdon stepped aside in... Read More

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State of emergency

Leaders fiddle while San Francisco burns

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

At 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 11, Paneez Kosarian came home to The Watermark condominium complex on Beale Street, just steps away from a planned homeless navigation center, when she was sud... Read More

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Dignity through accountability

Austin’s Community First Village knows the homeless aren’t helpless

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It’s 98 degrees on a June day in Austin, Tex., but the humidity makes it a balmy 118. I’m sitting on a shaded bench waiting for Alan Graham, founder of Community First Village,... Read More

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Irrevocable parole and our property crime crisis

Arrest, charge, release, and repeat

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Last month the Marina Times ran a quality of life survey, and it comes as no surprise that the two major concerns for city residents remain homelessness and property crime. I’ll ... Read More

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Uber and Lyft, Mohammed Nuru, Navigation Centers

Your letters and some updates on recent columns

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

My last three columns garnered correspondence from residents all over the city. From a formerly homeless man who wrote the most touching letter I’ve received on the topic, to ins... Read More

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Real reason to stop navigation centers: They don’t work

Success rate for permanently housing the homeless just 14 percent

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“I don’t want to obsess over one little piece of the system, because navigation centers do not exit people from homelessness, they’re a path towards that.” — Jeff Kositsk... Read More

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It’s time for Mayor Breed to sweep DPW boss to the curb

But does she have the guts to fire a fellow Willie Brown protégé?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!” —President Donald Trump to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Twitter When bully in chief Donald Trum... Read More

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