The Dissent

Happy Earth Day, San Francisco. While city officials will no doubt use the occasion to announce some new…

Here's a fun thought experiment: imagine you're walking down Third Street in the Dogpatch, minding your own business…

Two Steller sea lions put on an absolute show for tourists at Pier 39 this afternoon — one industriously clearing deck…

Sometimes the best things in San Francisco don't involve a ballot measure, a task force, or a $2 million feasibility…

San Francisco was already staring down a $634 million budget deficit.

Here's a small but telling sign of civic life in San Francisco: when a local resident recently went looking for a bar —…

San Francisco has a tourist problem — not too many tourists, but too many tourists doing the same five things.

In a city where the Board of Supervisors can't pass a budget without a psychodrama, where SFMTA treats every parking…

Sometimes you need to get a few hundred feet off the ground to remember why you put up with everything happening at…

There's a version of San Francisco that doesn't make it onto anyone's three-day itinerary — no Pier 39, no rented…

Here's how bad the e-scooter situation in San Francisco has gotten: residents are now grateful when a delivery moped…

San Francisco's iconic cable cars are about to get a whole lot pricier — and a whole lot more complicated.

Here's a radical concept for San Francisco in 2025: growing your own food on a tiny slab of concrete you're already…

Starting in May, cranes will descend on Embarcadero Plaza to begin dismantling the Vaillancourt Fountain — hoisting its…

A Bay Area school backed by Mark Zuckerberg is closing its doors and laying off 147 people.

There's a free screening and Q&A coming up in San Francisco for No Place to Grow Old, a documentary tackling the city's…

While everyone's busy arguing about housing permits and whether you can bike up Nob Hill without a death wish, there's…

San Francisco's theater scene has never been shy about tackling big themes, and Burden of Proof is no exception.

San Francisco is rolling out $33 million in street repair and repaving work over the next two years, with most of the…

Something unexpected is happening in California politics: Xavier Becerra is actually competitive.

Here's a sentence that shouldn't need to exist: a person was stabbed inside a San Francisco hospital.

Here's a question that really shouldn't be controversial: Should Algebra 1 be offered to all 8th graders in San…

Somewhere in the Bay Area, there's a bird named Mochi — possibly living its best feral life, possibly perched on a…

Here's a government program we can all get behind: zero bureaucracy, zero tax dollars, and the return on investment is…