“And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!” —President Donald Trump to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Twitter When bully in chief Donald Trum... Read More
“Shared scooters/bikes are an exciting part of the future of urban mobility . . . If we’re serious about reducing congestion, as we should be, we need to make it easy for peopl... Read More
San Francisco has a large Irish-American community, so large in fact, that its annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade and festival at City Hall is the West Coast’s largest Irish cel... Read More
The financial times, the business newspaper, publishes a lavishly illustrated oversized magazine insert with the least understated name on the planet: How to Spend It. Inside, read... Read More
Part 1 of a series. You may have grown accustomed to it. after all, you walk down Chestnut and Union at least once a week, if not more. So when you stroll passed an empty storefron... Read More
What are you hoping to get from your sweetie on Valentine’s Day: roses, jewelry, or dinner at a romantic restaurant? Certainly, chocolate. In the weeks leading up to Valentine’... Read More
For more than half a decade, I’ve written about the problems plaguing San Francisco. Once considered the Bay Area’s urban jewel, San Francisco now attracts media outlets like T... Read More
My friend recently asked me for the best way to get from the Ferry Building to the Marina; I didn’t have a good answer. But there used to be an easy response: the E- or F-line. T... Read More
Around the world, children spend the holidays hurriedly writing out all of their wishes for the year ahead. There are no limits on what can be wished for; from ponies to PlayStatio... Read More
As we wind down one year and prepare for the next, it’s worth a look at the incredibly strange year that we just experienced. “Fake news” has been much in discussion of late,... Read More
The setting of start-up stories may soon shift from the garage to the kitchen, thanks to a new California law. Garage-based innovation has long been a seed of entrepreneurship and ... Read More
November will bring a wave election to San Francisco voters, but not for partisan reasons. The tidal forces facing the city’s voters instead will come through a ballot measure re... Read More
When I interviewed Chris Megison, the co-founder and CEO of Solutions for Change (“Meet the man who runs a homeless program with a 93 percent success rate,” Reynolds Rap, Sept... Read More
Political pundits are predicting a huge blue wave of Democratic voters in the midterm elections. But here in lefty San Francisco, waves of Democratic voters casting their ballots i... Read More
The Presidio, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Crissy Field are among the top 12 most frequently visited places by tourists to San Francisco. What’s more, thanks to form... Read More