When Troy McAlister ran a red light in a stolen car that struck and killed 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-year-old Hanako Abe on Dec. 31, 2020, San Francisco District Attorney... Read More
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
“Basically, they’re saying my daughter was nothing, she wasn’t worth anything anyway. And that’s just not true and I get so angry about that.” — Sherree DeYoe, moth... Read More
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
This past New Year’s Eve, 45-year-old parolee Troy McAlister was evading a robbery in a stolen car. He ran a red light, striking and killing 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-y... Read More
Virtue signaling: the sharing of one’s point of view on a social or political issue to garner praise or acknowledgment of one’s righteousness from others who share that point ... Read More
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
Just 15 minutes before the Board of Supervisors meeting on Dec. 1, 2020, District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston told his colleagues that he planned to single out the Marina Times from... Read More
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
Readers may remember our dear departed columnist Bruce Bellingham, who wrote of his ramblings around the city in Bellingham by the Bay. Every December he ended that column with th... Read More
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
Neighbors in the Richmond District have been begging their supervisor, Sandra Fewer, to deal with a growing homeless situation known as the 18th Avenue encampment. On Aug. 17, a g... Read More
As a resident of the Haight-Ashbury for over two decades, I watched the neighborhood deteriorate through five supervisors. In 2010, I wrote an article for Northside San Francisco ... Read More
“1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.”—Queen Elizabeth II Nearly three decades ago, the British monarch demonstrated her countrymen’s ... Read More
He looked intimidating, like he could punch his fist through a brick wall without straining himself. Tall, beefy, bald; he spoke forcefully and directly, just like the ex-Marine h... Read More