Issue August 2014

Jail Staffing Shortage Costs City Millions

A San Francisco Civil Grand Jury has issued a report claiming that the Sheriff’s Department can’t meet state-mandated staffing levels without spending millions of dolla... Read More

News Briefs

Washington Square Subway Station

Hoping for a convenient and quick ride downtown when the city’s long-planned and uber-controversial Central Subway extension is completed, the Russian Hill Neighbors group is... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Change and loss in the city of gloss

By Michael Snyder

A day prior to writing this piece, I posted a status update on Facebook about the demise of a favorite Thai restaurant in my neighborhood — a pleasant, increasingly upscale distr... Read More

Real Estate

Where to go from here

Exploring what can be done to deal with city growth successfully

By John Zipperer

Final of a four-part series (Part 3, Part 2) When NPR’s comedy news quiz program Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me visited San Francisco in late July, host Peter Sagal joked, ... Read More

Travel/Sports

Freezing with my father at Candlestick Park

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Some of my best recollections of my father revolve around the one thing that really connected us: sports. I have no doubt, being a tremendous athlete himself, that my dad was hopin... Read More

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