Issue June 2020

SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly Jr. and his deputy, Juliet Ellis, at a job site. Photo: LinkedIn
Reynolds Rap

Friends with Community Benefits

Is the SFPUC running a social impact program or a pay-to-play scheme?
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Over a year ago, I broke the story of Department of Public Works boss Mohammed Nuru’s corruption, his romances with Mayor London Breed and Sandra Zuniga, and the way City Hall h... Read More
The writer and his little brother Bob sitting in Santa’s lap at the old Emporium department store in San Francisco
Real Estate

A Kid’s View of SF in the 60s

By Garey De Martini

We’ve all had the chance to daydream and maybe reminisce a bit over these many weeks of shelter-in-place during the pandemic. Nearly empty San Francisco streets brought my mind ... Read More
Coastal Commuter

Dining and dancing with myself

By Michael Snyder

From all the available evidence, we’ll be living under some sort of pandemic strictures for longer than any of us could possibly want. I’m not gonna say that a mask is... Read More
Reynolds Rap

It’s the drugs, stupid

It will take a literal village to get a handle on this crisis
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

At the April 8 meeting of the Board of Supervisors budget committee, City Controller Ben Rosenfield reported San Francisco hotels were providing 1,977 rooms to the homeless during... Read More
Real Estate

What’s Ahead for San Francisco Real Estate

What a balanced market means for buyers and sellers
By Garey De Martini

The March 16 shelter-in-place order brought San Francisco home sales to a virtual standstill. Because real estate sales had been fairly brisk to that point, it was difficult to ge... Read More
Previous encampment behind Marina Safeway, May 2020. PHOTO: Rachel Podlishevsky
Reynolds Rap

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

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

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
Supervisor's Report

Emerging from the crisis

Economic recovery must be fueled by community, cut out corruption
By Aaron Peskin

I was recently appointed to the city’s Economic Recovery Task Force to help chart a post-Covid path forward for San Francisco’s industries, mom and pop businesses, workers, a... Read More
Rarely does someone needing help with mental health bring it up themselves — often it’s a loved one who notices unhealthy behaviors. Photo: artbykleiton
Community

Mental health checkup

Attention to mental health needs to continue postpandemic
By Kevin Frazier

As states begin to open up, more and more folks will require mental health support. How do I know? As a “former” anorexic, I’ve experienced life under strict, somewhat arbit... Read More
Road trips are great alternatives to airline travel. Photo: petrenkod
MomSense

Recreating summer during the pandemic

By Liz Farrell

The pandemic has forced us to face so much uncertainty over the past months, and as we near the end of the school year, we know two things: Scientists are all but guaranteeing a s... Read More
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip to Greece, an IFC Films release. Photo: courtesy of IFC Films
Films

Of alien invasions and aliens abroad

By Michael Snyder

With indoor theaters shuttered, summer movie blockbusters may be on hold or bumped to later in the year. Don’t despair. Exciting new releases are available to stream at home. He... Read More
Firefighters work to extinguish a major fire at Pier 45 on May 23. Photo: NAOMI ROSE
News Briefs

Four-alarm fire at pier 45

By John Zipperer

Around 4 a.m. on May 23, locals were awakened by multiple fire engines called to put out a large fire at a warehouse on Fisherman’s Wharf’s Pier 45. As many as 130 firefighter... Read More
News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

1.16: percentage increase in available job listings in California since May 8, according to TOP data . . . 3.65: percentage increase in available job listings nationwide since May... Read More
News Briefs

Crime update

By John Zipperer

For the week of May 11–17, there were five robberies reported by Northern Police Station, bringing the year-to-date total to 127, the exact same number as the 2019 year-to-date ... Read More
News Briefs

Lease and eviction relief proposed for small businesses and nonprofits

By John Zipperer

If a new bill proposed in Sacramento is adopted, small businesses and commercial landlords would be able to modify leases in light of the economic devastation wrought by Covid-19.... Read More
News Briefs

Slow streets movement picks up speed

By John Zipperer

It started in Oakland — a move to close streets temporarily to vehicular traffic to allow pedestrians and cyclists more space to be physically distanced while getting exercise o... Read More

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