Newsom’s Question: Who’s “Complicit” With SF’s Open Drug Use?

Posted October 9, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Why Open Drug Dealing is Allowed “The points they made are that the city is too lenient, too complicit as it relates to drug use out on the streets…” —-Gavin Newsom, SF Chronicle, October 7 I have been thinking about
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Filed under: San Francisco News by Randy Shaw
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Why San Francisco Outdoes New York City on Tenants Rights

Posted May 22, 2018 by Randy Shaw

SF’s Success Offers Lessons for Other Cities The May 21 front-page NY Times story on New York City’s housing crisis highlights how the city has been outpaced by San Francisco in protecting tenants since the latter adopted rent control in
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NY Times School Lunch Story Ignores Data

Posted September 30, 2015 by Dana Woldow

Don’t you hate it when the facts contradict a really catchy headline? I guess the New York Times does. Contrary to the screaming headline of a recent NYT article claiming that kids hate school lunch, the latest data from the
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Filed under: Soda Tax/Food Politics by Dana Woldow
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The Perfect Solution to Homelessness

Posted September 26, 2015 by Randy Shaw

The past month  has seen national media stories on rising homelessness in New York City, San Francisco, Madison, Los Angeles and other cities. Each story describes the problem, the local government response, and the insistence from homeless advocacy groups that
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Neighborhoods Need Economic Diversity

Posted August 20, 2015 by Randy Shaw

As I detailed in “NY Times Gets Tenderloin Wrong,” the paper’s claim that “nowhere is the inequality gap as concentrated — and as evident — as in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood” is completely false. Not only did its supporting evidence 
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NY Times Gets Tenderloin Wrong

Posted August 18, 2015 by Randy Shaw

It is clear from the August 17 story’s headline, “When Tech Came To the Tenderloin,” that NY Times deputy tech editor Quentin Hardy needs a geography lesson. After all, none of the prominent tech companies mentioned in the article operate
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Filed under: Mid-Market / Tenderloin by Randy Shaw
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Media Goes Overboard on UVA Rape

Posted April 7, 2015 by Randy Shaw

Rolling Stone got the story wrong. Way wrong. In fact, the reporter violated so many basic journalism rules that many wonder why she has not been fired. She should be. Her false reporting defamed the University of Virginia and specifically
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