Politics
Supervisor Fielder Goes Dark — And Her Constituents Deserve Answers
District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder is reportedly on a "medical leave of absence," according to her staff, who are asking the public to give her "time and spac...
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Former SF Official Sheryl Davis Hit With Felony Charges — And Nobody Should Be Surprised
Sheryl Davis, the former head of San Francisco's Human Rights Commission, has been arrested and charged with felonies alongside an alleged collaborator. And if...
Politics
SF's 911 System Went Down and You Should Be Furious About How Little We Know
If you tried to call 911 from your cell phone in San Francisco recently and couldn't get through, you weren't imagining things. A cell outage blocked emergency...
Politics
No Kings Protesters Want Answers on Iran and Epstein — And Honestly, Fair Enough
The latest No Kings protest hit San Francisco streets over the weekend, and while the movement's anti-authority branding casts a wide net, two topics dominated...
Politics
San Francisco: From Surveillance Watchdog to Surveillance Playground
Remember when San Francisco banned facial recognition technology in 2019? The city patted itself on the back as a civil liberties trailblazer — the first major...
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Former SF Human Rights Commission Head Arrested — Because Apparently 'Human Rights' Didn't Include Your Right to Honest Government
Former San Francisco Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis and nonprofit executive James Spingola have been arrested and booked into jail in c...
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Mayor Lurie's Asia Trip: Diplomacy or Taxpayer-Funded Tourism?
Mayor Daniel Lurie is packing his bags for his first official international trip, heading to China and South Korea with a stated focus on sister-city ties, tour...
Politics
Sheriff Miyamoto to Supervisor Fielder: See For Yourself Before You Audit Me
San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto is not having it. After Supervisor Jackie Fielder pushed for an audit of the Sheriff's Department — following reports that...
Politics
Lyft Says SF Overtaxed It by $100 Million — And Honestly, We Believe Them
## Lyft Says SF Overtaxed It by $100 Million — And Honestly, We Believe Them Lyft is coming after San Francisco with a $100 million tax dispute, claiming the c...
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Could San Francisco Lure the UN Back Home?
Here's a fun bit of civic trivia that tends to get lost in the fog of San Francisco's daily dysfunction: this city is the birthplace of the United Nations. The...
·Civic Center
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Super Bowl Sunday or Deportation Day? The Fine Line Between a Sting and a Sweep
Every year around the Super Bowl, federal agencies roll out the same press release playbook: massive crackdown on sex trafficking, dozens arrested, children sav...
Politics
When the Judge Sanctions the Defense: A Troubling Signal for Criminal Justice
A San Francisco public defender has been sanctioned by a judge in a criminal case that's quietly raising some uncomfortable questions about how justice actually...
Politics
The Wealth Tax Fight Is Real, But Losing the Governor's Race Would Cost You More
Everyone in tech is fired up about the wealth tax. Fair enough — a proposal to tax unrealized gains is the kind of fiscal absurdity that deserves every ounce of...
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Someone Actually Wants to Rename Cesar Chavez Street. Here's Why That's a Bad Idea.
San Francisco has a proud tradition of solving problems that don't exist while ignoring the ones that do. The latest entry in that canon: seriously entertaining...
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Someone Wants to Rename Cesar Chavez Street. Here's Why That's a Terrible Idea.
San Francisco has a proud tradition of solving problems it doesn't have. The latest entry: reopening the debate over whether Cesar Chavez Street needs a new nam...
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Who's Really Running City Hall? 236 Lobbyists and 4,324 Reasons to Wonder
While San Franciscans are busy debating bike lanes and arguing about which supervisor said what on social media, a quieter and considerably more expensive conve...
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Who's Really Running City Hall? Meet SF's 236 Lobbyists
Here's a number worth sitting with: 4,324. That's how many contacts San Francisco lobbyists made with city officials in a recent reporting period. And they didn...
·Civic Center
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SF Says Yes to Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong?
San Francisco has officially greenlighted the use of robots capable of lethal force by local law enforcement — making it one of the first cities in the country...
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Garry Tan Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Tech's Most Online Civic Gadfly Is At It Again
Garry Tan is having a moment. Whether that moment is inspiring or exhausting probably depends on how you feel about tech founders treating City Hall like a prod...
Politics
Sam Altman Is Now Running City Hall's Vibe Check
San Francisco hasn't even sworn in its new mayor yet and already the plot is thick: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been tapped to co-chair mayor-elect Daniel Lurie's...
Politics
Fielder Down, City Hall in Flux: What Happens When a Supe Goes Dark?
Supervisor Jackie Fielder is hospitalized, and the ripple effects are already being felt across City Hall. Fielder's office has reportedly been in disarray for...
Politics
SFUSD's Make-Up Week Is a Fantasy — Nobody's Showing Up
After a teachers' strike wiped out five instructional days, the San Francisco Unified School District school board did what school boards do best: made a decisi...
Politics
Trump's San Francisco Obsession Is Getting Old — But The City Shouldn't Get Comfortable
Here we go again. The Trump administration is back on its San Francisco kicks, threatening federal intervention in the city while Bill O'Reilly — yes, that Bil...
·Tenderloin
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Lyft vs. SF: A Tax Fight Only a City This Expensive Could Dream Up
San Francisco and Lyft are locked in a tax dispute, and honestly, it's hard to know who to root for — a city government with a history of burning money on broke...
Politics
SF Crime Is Actually Down — But Don't Let Politicians Fool You About Why
Here's something you don't hear every day: San Francisco's crime rate has dropped to levels not seen in decades. Yes, really. Go ahead and read that again. Of...
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Ten Years of Fentanyl and SF Still Can't Quit It
A decade. That's how long San Francisco has been grappling with fentanyl — and after ten years of task forces, emergency declarations, Narcan distributions, saf...
·Tenderloin
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Wiener Wants Your Vote, Just Not Your Questions
Scott Wiener is running for Congress, and if you're surprised, you haven't been paying attention. The state senator has spent years building a brand as SF's mos...
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Don't Let the Spin Machine Bury the Truth About SF's Real Estate Tax Measure
Something predictable is happening around San Francisco's latest real estate tax measure — and if you're not paying attention, you might miss it. A narrative i...
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SF's Street Ambassador Program Is Actually Working — So They're Expanding It
Here's something you don't hear often enough: a San Francisco city program that actually works, and a city government responding by doing more of it. The Marke...
·Tenderloin
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Fielder's Not Going Anywhere — But District 9 Shouldn't Have to Wonder
It's been a whirlwind 48 hours in District 9, and if you blinked, you missed a full political drama cycle — hospitalization, resignation rumors, neighborhood ra...
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