In this issue of the Marina Times, you will find a number of articles and columns addressing the homeless problem in San Francisco. This paper is an active participant in a coaliti... Read More
An increase in robberies in April appeared to abate in May, reported Northern Station Captain John Jaimerena. He had shifted some of his officers to focus on robberies and saturate... Read More
Saying the addition of George Lucas’s much-bandied-about museum to Treasure Island might be the “special sauce” the island has needed, District 3 Supervisor Aaron... Read More
Repeated efforts to introduce the use of stun guns to the San Francisco police force as a way to reduce shooting deaths at the hands of officers have gone nowhere. Greg Suhr, who w... Read More
A few months ago I came across a letter to the San Francisco Business Times. The author, an understandably frustrated San Francisco resident named Richard Kales, went on at length about the perils of working downtown with its throngs of drug addicted, mentally ill, and sometimes violent denizens.... Read More
Homelessness is an intractable issue that has plagued San Francisco and cities and countries across the world for decades. Poverty, housing shortages, growing income inequality, s... Read More
At the Board of Supervisors meeting following the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history, my colleagues and I re... Read More
The last time I saw Alphonsus McCourt was at the memorial for his celebrity bartender brother, Michael. Alphie, as everyone calls him, came out from New York and read one of his p... Read More
You can finally see the signs that some have predicted and others have feared (and a few have cheered) for some time: the local economy is beginning to cool, and its impact is bein... Read More
Gov. Jerry Brown and the state legislature agreed on a budget that also moves forward the governor’s plan announced in May to speed up approvals of new housing developments i... Read More
Market Street, the famous commercial road cutting through San Francisco from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks, is the city’s leading place for office rents. Asking rates for ... Read More