SF Police Oversight Must Rein in Disreputable Officers

It is time for the San Francisco police oversight department to investigate San Francisco officers using vulgar language and making racist comments on social media. SFPD ... Read More

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Photo: SFGov.tv

Opinion

Semi-annual report: Is DA Boudin spinning or lying?

Does he belong on the Brady List?

By Lou Barberini

Are law enforcement officers inherently honest? Not in the locker room. JFK said, “Victory has 100 fathers.” Sports and law enforcement’s locker rooms are no except... Read More

The burglars are adapting to pandemic patterns and prosecutorial leniency. Photo Mohamed Hassan

Opinion

Boudin boosts burglary business

Are burglars creeping inside your house while you sleep?

By Lou Barberini

For San Franciscans, at the end of a long day, when the last lights go out, and the kids are tucked in their beds, there is an expectation of privacy and refuge. A residence is a ... Read More

San Francisco’s waste agreements are trashy. Photo: Antranias

Opinion

A new deal is needed

It’s time for the city to renegotiate its trash and recycling arrangements to suit rate-payers.

By Quentin Kopp

A truism applicable to San Francisco declares: “Our city was in better condition when there were more whittlers and fewer chiselers.” The degraded status of city government re... Read More

Opinion

Chesa Boudin: Ho-hum, another homicide in the projects

DA’s indifference is perpetuating systemic racism

By Lou Barberini

It was Eddie who found his mother. She had passed from an apparent heart attack. He was closer to his mom than his sister, and her death devastated him. Tragically, within a week,... Read More

Opinion

Confessions of a Dem dialer

By Garey De Martini

In 2016, like millions of other people in America, I was sure there was no way that Donald Trump could possibly win the presidential election. I voted. And that was that. Nothing ... Read More

Opinion

Is it our DA or the algorithm that makes S.F. less safe?

Vote no on Proposition 25

By Lou Barberini

Sadly, San Francisco has become a laboratory for social experiments that are proving destructive and have incentivized the criminal trade. At the heart of the matter is the ... Read More

Opinion

Is Vilaska an Airbnb Candidate for D7?

Which City Department Is Vilaska Lying To?

By Lou Barberini

In July, I authored an article questioning where District 7 Board of Supervisors candidate Vilaska Nguyen resides. Vilaska, a San Francisco public defender, and his wife have resi... Read More

Opinion

A different perspective on the booking process

Rebuttal to Tim Redmond and Chesa Boudin

By Lou Barberini

In his September 21 blog, Tim Redmond claimed my recent article was inaccurate when I ascribed the sexual assault on a juvenile girl by a released burglar as the responsibility of... Read More

Opinion

D.A. Chesa Boudin on Twitter: Spinning or fabricating?

By Lou Barberini

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, recently initiated fact checking in response to the incessant false public statements made by elected public officials on his social media platfor... Read More

Opinion

It’s the millennials’ Marina now

By Kevin Frazier

Little did I know that by moving to the Marina, I’d be joining a massive swell. From 2011 to 2016, a wave of millennials crashed down on Crissy Field and across the entire 94123... Read More

Opinion

Switching the Alcatraz ferry to Fort Mason could cost a lot

By John Farrell

Recently we learned that the National Park Service (NPS) wants to move the Alcatraz ferry from its long-term home at the Port of San Francisco to Fort Mason. This move may be neces... Read More

Opinion

Let’s toast the return of Tosca Cafe

By Ernest Beyl

When Sean Penn intercedes to save a North Beach landmark, I sit up and take notice. One assumes Penn has more pressing things to do — like going to bat for UNESCO’s Haitian... Read More

Opinion

A big ‘No’ to big-box pet food

Pet Food Express on Lombard, Part II

By Susan Landry, San Francisco Pet Store Coalition

In the December 2012 Marina Times, Susan Dyer Reynolds wrote about “big-box” Equinox Fitness moving into the old Metro Theater on Union Street and compared it to the propos... Read More

Opinion

The golden ticket: City’s reverse Robin Hood spending

By John Zipperer

For years, there has been a movement to convince cable television providers to charge for their channels on an a la carte basis. You can select each of the channels you want and pa... Read More

Opinion