San Francisco is not in a sorry state: The city is doing just fine, thank you. There are people packing Li Po on Saturday nights like they have for decades and families bumping their strollers along the Great Highway as they have since the pandemic’s onset. Downtown might be as

Written by Ashley November whisked by in a whirlwind of fallen variegated leaves and crisp air. It was National Adoption (of humans) Month, and I spent it reflecting on my teen years in the Alameda County child welfare system. Or as I now refer to it, the family policing system,