Plans include ideas for homelessness, public safety, affordable housing, government performance EMILIO GARCIA-RUIZ Nov. 10, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) When we launched SFNext two years ago, our goal was to convene community members for robust conversations about the challenges facing the city. This would allow residents to have their voices heard in… Continue reading
By Tessa McLean Updated Oct 18, 2023 9:06 a.m. (SFGate.com) FILE – Aerial view of San Francisco.heyengel/Getty Images/iStockphoto Each TikTok video starts the same. There’s a sweeping shot of an iconic landmark that places you in a city or neighborhood. Then comes clip after clip of vacant storefronts. Cody Casillas has posted nearly 50… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on October 10, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) Care Not Cash (Prop N) won big in 2002 Breed Welfare Proposal Fuels the Conflict Mayor Breed’s September 26 plan to connect drug use with welfare eligibility captured what San Francisco’s 2024 elections are all about. Breed wants the mayoral election to focus on her… Continue reading
September 13, 20232:13 PM ET (NPR.org) Heard on All Things Considered Chloe Veltman Threatened by rising sea levels, San Francisco is considering drastic measures to save its historic shoreline. Above, the Ferry Building pictured in 2009. Anthony Jacobs/AP Images for T-Mobile San Francisco’s waterfront is on the National Register of Historic Places for… Continue reading
by JOE ESKENAZI AUGUST 24, 2023 (MissionLocal.org) Plucky billionaire-funded outfit TogetherSF released a report this week about what’s ailing San Francisco government. And in only 76 pages, it managed — amazingly! somehow! — to say the very same things that TogetherSF’s billionaire backer Michael Moritz said in his curious February New York Times op-ed…. Continue reading
We’ve all felt it — that moment when you fall in love with The City, when it becomes a part of you. The late Tony Bennett gave us an unforgettable song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” about the phenomenon. It happened to Elon Musk on a Saturday in… Continue reading
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/Insider Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” was a ballad for the exciting things occurring in the city when it was released in May 1967. In reality, the song was produced by people from Los Angeles looking to promote a concert they were… Continue reading
by Mike Miller on July 31, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) Mike Miller was staff director of MCO–the Mission Coalition Organization People Power Can Revive San Francisco A cursory observation of the State of the City indicates that institutions are failing to accomplish the purposes most San Franciscans assume them competent to achieve. The police department… Continue reading
San Francisco was built by taking in errant souls who made a home here. Judy Garland sang a whole song about it: “San Francisco, open your Golden Gate, you’ll let nobody wait outside your door.” We lived up to that anthem throughout San Francisco’s history. We were a boom town, growing about 2% a… Continue reading
7 JULY 2023/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn’t aware of that and bought… Continue reading
