Starting Monday, an additional 8,000 San Francisco city employees began shuffling back into the office at least four days a week as part of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s crusade to bring “pre-pandemic normal” back to a downtown that now resembles a very expensive ghost mall. Restaurants near City Hall are practically

Daniel Lurie has quietly done away with a cornerstone promise of his entire mayoral campaign. It’s partly what cinched the deal for voters desperate for some form of intervention in the city’s homelessness crisis. Lurie pledged 1,500 new shelter beds—within his first six months in office at that. Now Lurie’s

Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, and his campaign drew in a record number of small-dollar donations and inspired San Franciscans to take action and channel his electoral success locally.

As the years go by, the world looks more and more like a science fiction dystopia than what we all know, or at least used to know as real life. We have all the ingredients to create whatever kind of society we want, and it seems that the well-financed elite

San Francisco has been fighting on the front lines of the Fentanyl crisis for nearly a decade now, and while there has been some success in recent years curbing its fatality, all of that progress has seemed to disappear as drug overdose deaths skyrocketed 50% since Daniel Lurie has taken

Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco is advocating for a new centrist approach to the Democratic Party called “new pragmatism,” which could lead to larger police budgets, the criminalization of homelessness, and the writing of blank checks to developers, potentially shifting the city to the right of some GOP governors and former Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis.

Every leader wants to leave their mark, to reshape their domain in a way that reminds others, “I was here.” San Francisco has endured its share of eccentric tycoons who spent their sway and fortune taming, sculpting, or redeveloping it. For instance, Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), the city’s 24th mayor, financed

The historic Cliff House restaurant has been vacant for far too long. The iconic San Francisco eatery has sat vacant since December of 2020. This fact is entirely unacceptable, as the Cliff House is as much a part of San Francisco as Patagonia vests and Fentanyl. The good news is