City Hall Must Finally Act How’s this for a New Year’s Resolution for San Francisco in 2023: the city comes together to close open air drug markets. We’ve had plenty of strong talk but drug markets remain pervasive. Consider: In
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Should Newsom Send National Guard? Nearly one year ago San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a State of Emergency for the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood. It quickly became national news. The media loved portraying the mayor of “liberal” San Francisco as
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Left Offers No Support for TL’s Immigrant Families For most of the past forty plus years  the Tenderloin neighborhood drew strong support from the city’s political left.  Today the situation has changed. The two left members of the Board of
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Supe Favors Shifting Funds to More Affluent Neighborhoods “I’m disappointed to see that for the rest of the City, including the Richmond District that I represent, is once again ignored when we pleaded for resources to tackle safety concerns. To
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A Terrific Neighborhood — Once Dealers Removed What would San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood be like if the city closed its open drug markets? The Tenderloin would be a fantastic place to live and work. An ethnically diverse, low-income community of
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False Photo Exposes Chronicle’s Anti-SRO Agenda The August 20, 2022 SF Chronicle story about a “day in the life” of the Tenderloin’s Pierre Hotel raises more troubling questions about how the paper covers SRO hotels. The paper used a false
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City Hall Must Go Bigger “It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it come to an end. And it comes to an end when we take the steps to more aggressive with
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Will New DA Make Difference? The block of 600 Eddy between Larkin and Polk includes the legendary Phoenix Hotel, the Chambers and Son and Garden restaurants, and two affordable housing projects with a third around the corner. So why has
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