Two score in San Francisco

Please don’t be confused by the title of this article. It does not depict when two guys got lucky one night at the Balboa Cafe in Cow Hollow nor does it refer to Buster Posey dou... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Protecting personal information from corporate abuse

By Aaron Peskin

Last month, together with a majority of the Board of Supervisors, I introduced another precedent-setting “only in San Francisco” public policy to safeguard our fundamental Amer... Read More

District 2 Supervisor

Addressing the problems of the chronically homeless

By Catherine Stefani

My eight-year old daughter and I were walking down the street one night recently when we saw a man lying on the sidewalk, shivering under a blanket and in obvious distress. Sadly, ... Read More

News Briefs

June facts and figures

By John Zipperer

78: percentage of Americans who report being “extremely” or “somewhat” concerned about not having enough money for retirement, according to a study by Northwestern Mutual .... Read More

News Briefs

Addressing street needs

By John Zipperer

Mayor Mark Farrell has put some money into the effort to clean up San Francisco’s streets, especially its downtown areas. Media coverage of the amount of human waste, discarded n... Read More

News Briefs

That’s the last straw

By John Zipperer

A lot of attention has been focused lately on the need to clean up downtown city streets, which are laden with drug paraphernalia and human waste. Looking at a different sort of cl... Read More

News Briefs

More officers

By John Zipperer

In mid-May, the city announced it would spend $34.2 million in public safety measures, including the addition of 250 new police officers. The increase will take place over the next... Read More

News Briefs

Jest Jewel honored

By John Zipperer

Fashion and fine jewelry store Jest Jewels was named as District 2’s honoree for Small Business Week in San Francisco. “Jest Jewels is more than just a store,” District 2 Sup... Read More

Art World

The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art at the de Young

By Sharon Anderson

The de Young Museum is presenting a large-scale, traveling survey of Precisionism, the first modern art movement to come out of the United States. During the early 20th century, Pr... Read More

The stopgap election

This month voters choose a short-term mayor and primary candidates for November’s general election

By John Zipperer

In 1962, only 2.63 percent of California votes were cast by mail. That percentage has grown almost every election since then, reaching more than 60 percent in 2014, before dropping... Read More

In Memoriam

Farewell, Bruce Bellingham

By Sharon Anderson

“Mind if I use you as a punchline? It won’t hurt.” Bruce Bellingham said that to me more than once in reference to his Marina Times column Bellingham by the Bay. He was ... Read More

2018 June