On March 16, the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community and allies reacted with horror upon learning that an individual had shot and killed eight people, including s... Read More
It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since the first stay-at-home orders were issued. While I breathed a sigh of relief in January, with the inauguration of a new ... Read More
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
We did it. We made it to another year. San Francisco closed out one of the worst years in modern U.S. history with another shutdown after a statewide surge in Covid-19 cases, but ... Read More
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
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
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
When I became an attorney, and again when I became supervisor, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution. On Jan. 20, after an arduous four years, our country will fin... Read More
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
San Franciscans have always been stronger together than apart, healthier unified than divided. For good reason, we will likely remember 2020 alongside 1906 and 1989 as one of the ... Read More
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
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
A man with two dogs has been having a full-blown episode on my doorstep for the last two hours. I think he may hurt himself. I called the police more than an hour ago, but they ha... Read More
This year has been one struggle after another, seemingly without an end in sight. A global pandemic and economic shutdown, California ablaze with wildfires, a national reckoning w... Read More
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