February 2025 - Beyond Chron

Letters to the Editor…

Posted February 26, 2025 by Beyond Chron

Dear Beyond Chron, First I’d like to thank you for your coverage of the real roots of the crisis that has plagued our city. It’s insightful as only true boots on the ground residents can appreciate. My husband and Read More »

Photo shows drug users in front of Monarch Hotel

How HSH Ghosts the Tenderloin

Posted February 24, 2025 by Randy Shaw

HSH Refuses Public Meetings, Ignores Community Input San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) has pushed to transform the Tenderloin into a homeless services and drug containment zone. In a city that demands public input over a neighbor’s Read More »

10 Years Later, Shaw’s Second Edition of The Tenderloin Captures Local History in Motion

Posted February 24, 2025 by Sofia Karliner

The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco (Join us for a book release event at the Tenderloin Museum on February 27 at 5:30. It’s also available via zoom. To register, go to https://www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2025-1/2025/2/27/shaw-10th-anniversary-book-launch) I began Read More »

photo shows VA occupational therapist Mark Smith

On National Day of Action: Federal Union Rank-and-Filers Protest Musk & Challenge Their Own Leaders

Posted February 24, 2025 by Steve Early

Rank-and-File Lead the Way In Washington, D.C., there’s now a ritual formula for labor gatherings outside a government office to protest the latest depredations of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) created by President Trump. Paid staffers from national union Read More »

SF’s Cathedral Hill Walgreens Closure Rattles The Community

Posted February 24, 2025 by Sebastian

UPDATE: 2/26 Evening Police Crackdown (see end of story) In January, Walgreens announced the closure of 12 stores in San Francisco by the end of February, sending shocking waves throughout the affected communities. One of the stores on its closing Read More »

First Reviews From Slamdance 2025

Posted February 24, 2025 by Peter Wong

One big reason to cherish the offerings curated for the Slamdance Film Festival is the opportunity to see independent films dealing with subjects that bigger media outlets are far less likely to greenlight. The Disney Corporation, for example, is highly Read More »

Supes Must Change Vacancy Tax Law

Posted February 18, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Exempting Victims of Open-Air Drug Markets Among San Francisco’s laws that made sense in the pre-COVID world but not today is the commercial vacancy tax. It was passed by voters just before COVID hit the city in March 2020. At Read More »

The Strike at Kaiser

Posted February 18, 2025 by Cal Winslow

They Take Care of Us, Who Will Take Care of Them? 2400 striking behavioral health care workers in Southern California have taken to the streets – literally. On February 8, workers sat down in the middle of Sunset Blvd in Read More »