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Seven candidates for California governor crowded onto a San Francisco stage Thursday night for the final debate before the June primary, and if you were hoping...
The White House just named six new members to the Presidio Trust Board of Directors, and the lineup reads like a who's-who of Bay Area wealth and Republican don...
San Francisco police arrested five individuals tied to repeated retail theft — and when you look at their rap sheets, you start to understand why the city's sho...
Here's something you don't see every day in San Francisco politics: a broad coalition — spanning the ideological spectrum — coming together to tell voters to re...
San Francisco's Department of Children, Youth and Their Families chief Maria Su has been called to testify before Congress alongside superintendents from Chicag...
A Kaiser nurse right here in San Francisco — someone who shows up every day to take care of patients, pays her taxes, and contributes to a healthcare system tha...
Just seven Black students plan to enroll as freshmen at Lowell High School this fall. Seven. Despite years of active recruitment efforts by one of the city's mo...
In a city where government bloat isn't a bug but a feature, the Board of Supervisors just did something genuinely surprising: they voted to trim the fat. More...
The District 4 supervisor race is heating up in the Sunset, and so far the discourse is split between two equally unserious poles: candidates whose biggest poli...
San Francisco has a talent for writing policy that sounds righteous on a bumper sticker but crumbles under five minutes of scrutiny. Proposition D — the so-call...
Xavier Becerra has a problem. The former congressman and current gubernatorial front-runner hasn't been directly implicated in a fraud case involving a former a...
San Francisco's immigration courts have lost more judges than any other jurisdiction in the country. Let that sink in for a moment. Whatever your position on i...
Here's a fun exercise: take a city that's already hemorrhaging businesses, slap a new tax on the ones brave enough to stick around, and see what happens. If you...
There's a certain irony in running for office on a platform of making San Francisco better while simultaneously papering the city in glossy cardstock that ends...
Let's play a quick game: What kind of job pays you nearly a quarter-million dollars a year, doesn't require you to show up to the office, attend meetings, or ap...
Governor Newsom just announced a shiny new $1 billion rebate program for electric trucks, framing it as California's bold stand against the Trump administration...
Here's something you don't see every day: a right-wing organization hosting an event in San Francisco, and city officials actually showing up — not to protest,...
Here's a fun question for anyone who's ever sprinted back to their meter to avoid a $98 ticket: Why do you bother? A NOPA resident recently flagged a situation...
San Francisco politicians have been quietly cozying up to the American Enterprise Institute, one of the most influential conservative think tanks in the country...
It wouldn't be San Francisco without an annual addition to the ever-growing list of things you're not allowed to do. This year's entry: smoking in outdoor bar p...
Here's a question that should bother you regardless of where you sit politically: what happens when the person whose literal job is to hold law enforcement acco...
Mayor Lurie made fixing San Francisco's notoriously nightmarish permitting process a cornerstone of his agenda. Faster approvals. Less red tape. A modernized sy...
Judicial races are usually the sleepiest line on your ballot — the ones where you stare blankly and either skip or pick the name that sounds vaguely familiar. B...
Here's a fun thought experiment: imagine the government told you they were going to install cameras on every major road to track your car's movements, build a s...
Assemblymember Matt Haney is headlining a Bruce Lee event — because nothing says "I'm working hard for my constituents" quite like showing up to celebrate a mar...
A broke college student knows exactly where his stolen iPhone is. He has GPS data showing its movements. He filed a police report. He's driven from the East Bay...
Here's a dirty little secret that anyone who's actually worked in San Francisco politics already knows: the city's legendary progressive identity is largely a b...
Mayor Lurie wants you to know homelessness is down in San Francisco. About 8,000 people were counted on the streets and in shelters during January's Point in Ti...
If you want to understand a San Francisco politician's actual priorities, don't ask them about housing or homelessness — those answers are pre-loaded and poll-t...
San Francisco is staring down a $600 million budget deficit, and Supervisor Connie Chan's big idea is to take spending cuts off the table. Let that sink in for...