Lurie runs nonstop negative Mark Farrell campaign while ignoring Breed’s tenure as mayor

Editor’s note — These are the views of Susan Dyer Reynolds, not necessarily the views of The Marina Times. I laughed out loud when mayoral candidate and Levi Strauss heir D... Read More

Election Matters with SDR, Opinion

From propositions to the school board, here are our endorsements for the November 5, 2024, election

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Editor’s note — These endorsements are the views of Susan Dyer Reynolds, not necessarily the views of The Marina Times. “The quality of independence was almost wholly le... Read More

Election Matters with SDR, Opinion

Marina Times candidate endorsements for the Nov. 5, 2024, election

Don’t go with the status quo — our endorsements include some City Hall outsiders and underdogs who want to be agents of change

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Editor’s note — These endorsements are the views of Susan Dyer Reynolds, not necessarily the views of the Marina Times. In March of 2002, San Franciscans voted to pass rank... Read More

Opinion, Reynolds Rap

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his assemblymember wife tied to disgraced Oakland political operative Mario Juarez

As an assemblymember, Bonta requested $3.4 million grant for Viridis Fuels, run by Juarez, while Mia Bonta shared an office with now-defunct fuel firm

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

People who didn’t grow up in the San Francisco Bay Area or didn’t follow the region’s politics may not remember the story of Jim Jones except for the horrors of Nov. 18, 197... Read More

Election Matters with SDR, Opinion

Why Mark Farrell’s message resonates with San Francisco voters

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A new poll released by the Mark Farrell for Mayor campaign shows Farrell having the most first-choice votes among major candidates, and that after allocating votes to simulate the... Read More

Election Matters with SDR

Did mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin get his dreamhouse by bullying the previous owner?

Peskin’s powerful Telegraph Hill Dwellers neighborhood group filed numerous complaints and refused to give their blessing

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Peskin used a lot of my plans that I couldn’t get approved and got them approved … So how does the project they opposed become a single-family home? I’m no fan of Aaron�... Read More

Election Matters with SDR

City funnels billions of dollars to homelessness nonprofits without requiring performance reviews

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Homelessness is not designed to be solved. It is designed to be perpetuated. It is to treat the problem, not solve it.”— Former mayor Willie Brown in the CNN documentary �... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Election ‘Rap’ up: self-proclaimed ‘progressives’ need to read the room

‘Democrats for Change’ wiped out the far left slate, taking control of San Francisco DCCC — and those coveted party endorsements

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

In the final results of San Francisco’s March 5, 2024, election, the “Democrats for Change,” or as I call them, the “Democrats for Commonsense,” nearly wiped the slate c... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Former Mayor Mark Farrell

Why he’s running, and how he plans to get San Francisco back on track

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Public safety and homelessness are the two issues I’ve heard the most about and spent the most time on as a supervisor, and without a doubt they will remain two areas of ... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Endorsements for the March 5, 2024 election

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

SAN FRANCISCO RACES Superior Court Judges Seat 1: Albert “Chip” Zecher (Challenger) Seat 13: Jean Myungjin Roland (Challenger) Despite what the incumbents se... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Free pass to harass

Ex-wife of Don Carmignani says jury got it wrong in acquittal of attacker Garret Doty, and she’s furious

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When Garret Doty, a transient from Louisiana, was caught on security footage methodically grabbing two metal pipes, putting them together, taking practice swings, then chasing for... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Hypocrite Hill is more like Mount Everest for this year’s oxygen-deprived nominees

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It may not come as a surprise, but several of the 2023 nominees for my second annual Hypocrite Hill Awards made the list in 2022. This year’s runner-up, however, isn’t an indi... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Follow the money

Shamann Walton’s YCD subsidiary got a no-bid contract on shipyard homes — but where’s the money?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

On Dec. 17, 2014, the late Mayor Ed Lee and Lennar Urban broke ground on Pacific Pointe at the Shipyard, 60 permanently affordable family homes in Bayview-Hunters Point shipyard. ... Read More

Car break-in suspects crash after police pursuit. (Photo: SFPOA)

Reynolds Rap

Failed IPO

Break-in duo worked for DPW, earning nearly $700,000 while committing crimes

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Fate works in mysterious ways. On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, I tweeted a video on X of a brazen smash and grab near San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, one o... Read More

A rendering of the new harbor. (Photo: Rec and Park Department)

News Briefs

Controversial harbor threatens Marina Green view

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Acontentious meeting about the harbor brought out a bevy of boats but no board. District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani recused herself from representation because her husband own... Read More

Susan Dyer Reynolds