Monthly Archives: February 2024

Falsehoods and Misinformation Deny Opportunities Chinatown merchants have stopped the opening of 150 drug-free permanent supportive housing units at 935 Kearney. Their campaign exposed troubling falsehoods about sobriety programs. Unfortunately, many media accounts that followed the excellent February 8 stories<br> Read More »

It takes a lot to have one person unify the many sparring camps in public school advocacy. But Walnut Creek ambulance-chaser, Scott Rafferty, has managed to do just that. He has risen above all others to become the target of<br> Read More »

I met one of my favorite street artists, Jeremy Novy in Fulton Plaza as he was working on a gigantic koi mural between the Main Library and the Asian Art Museum in collaboration with Illuminate. I am a fan of<br> Read More »

No Clear Frontrunner Mark Farrell added another “moderate” to San Francisco’s mayor’s race last week. The city’s first even year mayoral election still lacks a clear “progressive” despite progressives pushing a November 2022 ballot measure shifting mayoral elections to a<br> Read More »

As a San Franciscan tired of hearing about the City’s doom loop reputation, I recently traveled to Asia with high expectations that people there, for a change, still praised our City for its beauty, wealth, and innovation. San Francisco was<br> Read More »