November 2021 - Beyond Chron

Mayor Breed Should Rethink Policies for the Tenderloin

Posted November 30, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Safe Injection Site Will Increase Tenderloin Drug Dealing San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s policies have turned the Tenderloin neighborhood into a nightmare for residents and workers. A place whose low-income children and parents must write letters “begging” City Hall for Read More »

How Wealthy Neighborhoods Avoid New Housing

Posted November 30, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Why Cities Favor Parks Over Housing “You could build housing here and a few hundred people can enjoy the view,” explained Leslie Alspach, president of the Francisco Park Conservancy. “Build a park here and millions can enjoy the view for Read More »

Public Space, Private Initiative

Posted November 30, 2021 by Eve Kessler

(This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA) A quiet revolution in public space management is spreading throughout New York City — and it is not being undertaken by the city bureaucrats who are paid to oversee our streetscape, but by Read More »

The Redwood Coast: Dispatches from a Forest in Distress.

Posted November 30, 2021 by Cal Winslow

“These great teeming ecosystems — these cathedrals of nature — are the lungs of our planet,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain in describing the pact at COP26. “Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah,” said Greta Thunberg in a retort that Read More »

SF School Board Recall: Who Wins?

Posted November 16, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Board Members In Deep Trouble San Francisco Mayor London Breed is supporting the recall of all three School Board candidates on the February 15, 2022 ballot. This makes it even tougher for San Francisco School Board President Gabriela Lopez, Commissioner Read More »

Sheng Thao Unites Oakland Progressives for Mayoral Run

Posted November 16, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Thao Assembles Broad Support One week ago, Oakland’s November 2022 mayor’s race seemed wide open. Moderate Councilmember Loren Taylor had announced his candidacy. Many assumed that either Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan or Nikki Fortunato Bas would be the progressive choice. But Read More »

At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor

Posted November 16, 2021 by Susan Stryker

Editors Note: Susan Stryker uncovered the lost story of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. It’s a landmark event in the history of transgender resistance to police oppression. But the building at 111 Taylor is now owned Read More »

“The First Wave”–Review

Posted November 16, 2021 by Peter Wong

Part way through the powerful documentary “The First Wave,” film subject Dr. Nathalie Douge confesses to the camera that she doesn’t feel like a hero. Modesty does not impel the internist to make this statement. What actually motivates her comment Read More »