During the summer legislative recess, I went on a road trip with my wife through the great American Northwest. It didn’t matter whether we were in the sweeping rural vistas of Sh... Read More
San Francisco is an amazing city, and I love it. Nowhere in the world can match the character of our neighborhoods, beautiful open spaces, and cultural diversity. For almost two de... Read More
San Francisco has the highest rate of street homelessness in the country, but this reality is not an inevitable consequence of high housing prices, widening inequality, or deinstit... Read More
Northside voters tend to be politically engaged, and 2018 is shaping up to be a year of greater-than-normal activity. It is good that voter interest and enthusiasm are high in this... Read More
Happy October, District 3! If you’re an absentee voter, you should have received your vote-by-mail ballot already. Here’s my roundup of some particularly important state and lo... Read More
Last year, more than 31,000 auto burglaries were reported to the police department. Only 550 arrests were made, and one auto burglar went to trial. As a result, San Francisco had ... Read More
People walking around Chestnut Street, Union Street, and Van Ness Avenue, will see some new faces this fall: Northern Station officers Sandro Alioto, Nick Armanino, Max Mackenzie, ... Read More
In an age in which social media has created a public stage for the 24/7 documentation of curated realities, the lines between the public and private, the fake and real have become ... Read More
After living in Cow Hollow for 17 years, my heart is strongly tied to District 2. This is the place where I had my two children: my son, Dominic, and my daughter, Gianna. I am so p... Read More
San Francisco has the highest rate of street homelessness in the country — more than 4,300 people sleep unsheltered here every night. But mass street homelessness is not an inevi... Read More
Everyday residents like you, dear readers, are serving the city in a variety of roles on city boards, commissions, and advisory bodies. They have all committed their personal time ... Read More
This year’s budget of $11 billion covers the 2018–19 fiscal year, which starts on July 1, 2018 and ends June 30, 2019. Comparing our budget to other cities is difficult because... Read More
Whether you were happy or not with last month’s election results, June 5 was a historic election and San Franciscans proved once again we are still a progressive city ready to fi... Read More
One of the core functions of local government is to protect its citizens. As a former prosecutor and as a mother of two children I am raising in our city, this is not an obligation... Read More
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