Endorsements are rolling in for San Francisco’s 2024 mayoral race. Will they matter to anyone else except the chronically online?  Research shows that endorsements can help uninformed voters make decisions, especially in close races, but this is San Francisco we’re talking about. Disengaged, disappointed, disheartened, yes, but uninformed? Hardly. Endorsements

Each mayoral debate on the campaign road to the People’s Palace has been a slow-moving tornado. One was canceled because multiple candidates called foul, one was hella awkward, and the July 8th debate was perhaps the worst of them all. It was petty and confusing, and it made San Francisco

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

I, a Tenderloin resident, believe drug abuse and homelessness persist here because they make certain folks at City Hall very rich.  It’s the last reasonable explanation I can think of, since logistic operations at San Francisco City Hall unfailingly exacerbate them. If the humanitarian crises at the heart of SF

Mayor London Breed doesn’t preen. The current face of San Francisco looks sharp in her red suit, second to the right on an awkwardly lit stage at UC Hastings in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a long-suffering smile fixed on her face as the gentlemen running to unseat her conduct themselves in

There’s only one reason anyone runs to be the Mayor of San Francisco, as I explained to my kindergartener the other day. It’s to get on the rooftop of City Hall any time you want, obviously.  In The City, it’s not as simple as winning a popularity contest. Because of

I love Black people. I love San Francisco. Black people also love San Francisco, but unfortunately, this adoration suffers a Lombard Street like asymmetry. Through all the startling beauty, footing on the road is temporary, gravity always wins, and any attempt to ascend the heights results in breathtaking exhaustion. Is

BY JEREMY KUEMPEL “I used to walk through this park on my way to the BART and today it’s filled with 25,000 beautiful people” Sonny Moore (better known by his stage name Skrillex) whispered into the microphone in front of City Hall, his soft voice amplified by a pair of

Facing eviction, certain people will soil and vandalize the property they occupied as a last word to their landlord. They rip copper pipes from walls, scratch and pit the floor, break windows and toilets. We’ve all heard stories of vengeful tenants smearing feces on walls. It’s a rotten thing to