Is Board of Supervisors Candidate Vilaska Nguyen carpetbagging District 7?

In a February 13, 2020 48hills piece, editor Tim Redmond wrote that Vilaska Nguyen, a “public defender who coaches girls’ basketball at a Catholic school and has lived in D7 (... Read More

Supervisor's Report

The road to recovery

By Aaron Peskin

Since my time at the Emergency Operations Center, California and San Francisco have begun the challenging road to recovery—which continues to be a series of two steps forward an... Read More

Coastal Commuter

This sporting half-life

By Michael Snyder

It’s been more than 100 days and counting since the last time a game was played in any of the four major American professional sports, and this loyal-through-thick-and-thin ... Read More

Marination

Giving CCSF a much-needed jump

By Kevin Frazier

Community colleges are more than schools, they are engines of economic opportunity. Consider that community college students can earn the credentials needed to access 15.7 million... Read More

Real Estate

Are people really fleeing the city?

By Garey De Martini

Is the pandemic the last straw for San Francisco residents, fed up with the high cost of owning a home or paying rent in the city? For years, people have been threatening to leave... Read More

Community

Signs of the Times

By Naomi Rose

Boho is a popular outdoor dining option. A woman window shops at Al’s Attire on Grant Avenue in North Beach. Boarded storefronts become message boards on Polk Street. ... Read More

Opinion

D.A. Chesa Boudin on Twitter: Spinning or fabricating?

By Lou Barberini

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, recently initiated fact checking in response to the incessant false public statements made by elected public officials on his social media platfor... Read More

Crime Beat

Change of captain at Northern Station

By Captain Joe Engler

“Accept things as they are, not as you would have them be. When you do this, only then can you obtain the clarity necessary to do what needs to be done.” —Coach Jim Sochor... Read More

News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

8,000: number of crab, shrimp, and black cod traps lost by 30 crabbers as a result of the May 23 fire at Pier 45. . . 1,712: number of Sheriffs and Police Department employees who... Read More

News Briefs

Mayor Breed looks to voters for change

Breed announces several ballot measures

By John Zipperer

Mayor London Breed announced in June several measures planned for the November ballot that would seek to address high-profile challenges in the city. The Save Our Small Busines... Read More

News Briefs

Museums from home

By John Zipperer

The second summer of the city’s “Museums for All” initiative has evolved to fit in with pandemic-era needs for social distancing and distance learning. The program,... Read More

News Briefs

Slow Streets comes to the Presidio

By John Zipperer

The movement to remove vehicles from streets expanded to The Presidio in June, the latest development in an effort to give people safe places for exercise and other outdoor activi... Read More

News Briefs

Fireworks cancelled

By John Zipperer

The San Francisco fireworks on Pier 39 have been canceled this year, along with its concert. “Due to the City & County of San Francisco’s Health Order prohibiting large ga... Read More

Art World

Online education and BLM community support at the de Young Museum

By Sharon Anderson

Although the de Young museum remains closed, they continue to offer online art and articles to the general public through the Covid-19 shutdown. Recently, the museum has taken a p... Read More

MomSense

Hopeful for change

How to have important discussions with children

By Liz Farrell

Who would have ever thought that in the middle of a major pandemic we could also be looking at the possibility of real change on an entirely different topic? Who would have ever t... Read More

Issue July 2020