March 2024 - Beyond Chron

City Attorney Chiu Puts Tenderloin Residents at Risk

Posted March 25, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Chiu Demands Plaintiffs’ Names Be Available to Drug Dealers The lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s use of the Tenderloin as a drug containment zone kept plaintiffs’ names anonymous. It’s common for lawsuits to identify plaintiffs as “Jane Roe” and use other Read More »

Is It Too Late To Revive SF’s Downtown?

Posted March 25, 2024 by Sebastian

My friend had been asking me for months to have lunch with him at Tú Lan restaurant in the heart of the City’s troubled 6th and Market Streets. I had been able to make excuses and got away with not Read More »

Caption asks Will SF "Mods" Carry March Success to November?

SF “Moderates” Still Face Tough Fight

Posted March 18, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Competitive Races for Mayor, Supes “Maggie Muir, the mayor’s political consultant, said that Breed has no interest in a dual or ranked-choice endorsement.”—SF Standard, March 14 “Moderates” have won control of the San Francisco Democratic Party. But their fight continues. Read More »

Congressional Commission Proposals To Curb Sports Coach Sexual Abuse Have Bay Area Roots

Posted March 18, 2024 by Irvin Muchnick

After a whitewash 2014 “independent review” of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport program, followed by a belly flop of an investigation of youth coach sexual abuse later the same year by former Congressman George Miller, those in the Olympic movement holding Read More »

City Plays Whack-a-Mole on Van Ness

Posted March 18, 2024 by Sebastian

Spring has sprung. On the afternoon of March 11, the neighbors in the troubled Ellis Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue notified me that the City was doing a spring cleaning on their street. They wondered why the Read More »

Reviews From Cinequest 2024

Posted March 18, 2024 by Peter Wong

“Two One Two,” the odd title of Shira Avni’s charming animated short, makes a lot more sense once the viewer understands that the title is a metaphor for the early stages of the mother-child relationship. The first “two” refers to Read More »

flyer with photo of Aaron Peskin with text "The renter's choice."

Will San Francisco Elect Aaron Peskin Mayor?

Posted March 11, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Peskin Galvanizes SF’s Mayor’s Race (Updated April 4) On Saturday, Aprill 6 Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin is announcing he is running for San Francisco mayor. I had long assumed this would happen. San Francisco now has the most Read More »

Photo shows Tents, open drug use in Little Saigon

While City Still Fiddles, Little Saigon Still Falls

Posted March 11, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Abandoning Little Saigon Last week the Tenderloin’s Little Saigon neighborhood was filled with tents, drug dealers and drug users. City Hall appears intent on keeping it this way. Why are we allowing the city’s tribute to the Southeast Asian refugees Read More »