After a rash of recent crimes, I have heard from countless neighbors about how they and their children don’t feel safe on the streets, on Muni, or even in their own homes. We’v... Read More
Welcome back from whatever summer adventures you may have embarked on! You have no doubt already started receiving campaign literature in the mail and are waking up to yet another ... Read More
Four days before I became supervisor in January 2018, I was sitting in a room with my family waiting for a doctor to present us with my father’s diagnosis. “We believe that you... Read More
A little over a year ago, I received an urgent request from parents at a District 3 elementary school to support the restoration of funding for a para-educator — partly because s... Read More
We all know that traffic in San Francisco is some of the worst in the entire country — and we are overdue for action to address it. A recent study by the San Francisco County Tra... Read More
San Francisco faces many urgent challenges: the homelessness crisis, growing mental health and substance abuse issues, and housing unaffordability. These issues are often the first... Read More
Many readers may know that Supervisor Catherine Stefani is a seasoned triathlete, but you may not know that she sometimes joins me for an early morning swim and brainstorming sessi... Read More
About a year ago, my son and I were walking down Chestnut Street when we saw a man in obvious distress rummaging through garbage cans with his pants at his knees. Sadly, this story... Read More
We talk a lot about San Francisco’s heart and soul — how it’s being crushed by speculation, erased by gentrification, or hurt by those who don’t understand it. How it conti... Read More
Last month, I stood a few hundred feet from the intersection of Geary Boulevard and Parker Avenue staring at a spot that had been engulfed in a 50-foot high fireball a couple of h... Read More
One of the reasons I voted to elect my colleague Supervisor Norman Yee president of the Board of Supervisors two months ago was his experience and ability to cobble together a coa... Read More
On the evening of Thursday, Jan. 24, I joined dozens of volunteers traveling the streets of San Francisco conducting the biennial homeless count. The purpose of the count is simp... Read More
Last month, I introduced a resolution urging the state not to succumb to yet another corporate bailout, after the legislature approved a partial bailout plan last year that will l... Read More
Whether it was helping shape the local ballot in the two 2018 elections or passing every conceivable manner of legislation, 2018 was a busy time for the District 3 office. ETHICS ... Read More
On Jan. 30, 2018, I was sworn in as supervisor. Fifteen days later, a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Florida. Less than a month ago, I attende... Read More