Small business aid

Mayor London Breed introduced the Small Business Recovery Act in mid-March, building on the streamlining of certain regulations and processes introduced in Proposition H, which pa... Read More

News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

Ninth: national ranking of the Bay Area in terms of its optimism about job opportunities, according to the University of Phoenix; 65 percent of local workers report being optimist... Read More

A car was retrieved from the bay following an incident near the Marina Green. Photo: SFFD Northern Station

Police Blotter

Anti-Asian hate crimes on our streets

By John Zipperer

Here’s a sampling of crimes in the districts covered by Northern SFPD station for one recent week in March. ANTI-ASIAN INCIDENT March 8, 7:30 p.m. Pine and Polk Streets... Read More

Governor Gavin Newsom (center left, along wall) met with Asian Americans during a recent visit to the city. Photo: @CAgovernor / TWITTER

News Briefs

Anti-Asian attacks, more school board woes

By John Zipperer

Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared in San Francisco in late March to decry the continued anti-Asian incidents that have included verbal harassment, physical attacks, and even fatal alterc... Read More

News Briefs

Downpayment payment

By John Zipperer

In mid-March, Mayor London Breed announced that the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development would release a new round of funds to help first-time home buyers make do... Read More

News Briefs

More Wiener housing bills

By John Zipperer

State Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) is bringing his total package of housing legislation to four for the current legislative year. Both of the new bills — SB 477 and SB ... Read More

News Briefs

City COVID vaccination

Vaccination rollout expands

By John Zipperer

With the goal of vaccinating at least 10,000 people a day against Covid-19, San Francisco has continued to fine-tune its vaccination distribution plans to increase the ability of ... Read More

Politics as Usual

Peak woke

Has San Francisco reached the high tide of its progressive resurgence?

By John Zipperer

San Francisco is the new Berkeley,” said KCBS Radio reporter Bob Butler in a recent political discussion. “Remember all the times when we talked about how wacky Berkeley was f... Read More

News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

$12.9 million: amount the city’s Grants for the Arts division had available for grants in Fiscal Year 2020 . . . 81: percentage of viewers surveyed by OnBuy.com who said they wo... Read More

Chinatown’s new Willie ‘Woo Woo’ Wong Playground and Clubhouse features unique structures inspired by Chinese mythology. Photo: Jim Watkins

News Briefs

Willie ‘Woo Woo’ Wong opens

By John Zipperer

Following a $14.5 million renovation, the Willie “Woo Woo” Wong Playground and Clubhouse reopened in February, featuring a larger play area, improved accessibility, public art... Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom at the site of the September North Complex Fire. Photo: Office of the Governor of California

Politics as Usual

The trials of Gavin

Local boy makes good — then hits turbulence

By John Zipperer

In Nov. 2018, Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California, a liberal Democrat winning with a landslide 24-point margin in one of the bluest states in the Union. It was as if h... Read More

Politics as Usual

Heart trouble

Small business is the heart of the economy and the community, and it’s in trouble

By John Zipperer

Small Business Saturday has been a post-Thanksgiving tradition for a decade, drawing people to neighborhood commercial corridors to fulfill their holiday shopping lists. This year... Read More

Editor's Note

New ownership for the Marina Times

Street Media buys Marina Times, Village Voice

By John Zipperer

DECEMBER 22, 2020 Street Media, the publisher of L.A. Weekly and Irvine Weekly, announced today the purchase of San Francisco’s Marina Times newspaper from its current ow... Read More

Politics as Usual

All I want for Christmas is 2021

Looking forward to a better new year

By John Zipperer

Like Charlie Brown being duped into trying to kick a football only to have Lucy take it away every time, I approach January with the optimism that it will herald a much better yea... Read More

News Briefs

Observation Wheel closed

By John Zipperer

A resurgence of Covid-19 cases led San Francisco officials to move the city into the “purple tier” of health-related restrictions in late November. One high-profile response w... Read More

John Zipperer