Meet Graham Woo Holoch. The artist has big ideas for one of the smallest shops in the Outer Sunset. Packed into just 232 square feet, The Last Straw offers a global treasure trove of artistic items and aims to be a creative community hub.
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NERT is a funny little acronym that is life and death serious. It stands for Neighborhood Emergency Response Team — a life saving program by San Francisco’s fire department that teaches disaster preparedness skills to residents.
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The debate over where to put new housing — and how tall it can be — fuels much of San Francisco’s raging NIMBY/YIMBY culture war. But most residents are not warriors in the political fights over zoning maps and building heights. They’re just trying to solve real-life housing problems. That’s why we should let homeowners build a small home in their backyard — an Accessory Dwelling Unit — that can be sold separately as a condominium.
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Franco Finn, the voice of the Golden State Warriors, conducted a series of talk show-style interviews with San Francisco supervisors to help residents get to know their elected officials. Find out what I have in common with Warriors star player Draymond Green!
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Meet Jeana Loraine, the artist who founded Sealevel — a creative sanctuary and performance space near the ocean in the Outer Sunset.
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Meet Ryan Swaner. She is a lieutenant in the fire department specializing in surf rescue. She lives in the Sunset — two blocks from the beach — where she is raising three kids who attend public school.
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Meet the student journalists at the Lincoln Log, one of only two newspapers published in both print and online at public high schools in San Francisco. They don’t shy away from complicated, even controversial topics.
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Meet Richard Hansen. His house on Sloat Boulevard doubles as a veritable museum of San Francisco history. Three rooms are dedicated to the photos, maps, and records dating back to the Gold Rush.
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Sunset Boulevard should be a gem of the Sunset. The greenbelt on both sides of the two-mile boulevard has the potential to become San Francisco's "emerald necklace" connecting Lake Merced and Golden Gate Park. This is latest update on creating a well-maintained and beautiful thoroughfare that highlights the best of the Sunset.
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Mayor Lurie and the planning department released a map proposing where San Francisco can build more housing by increasing height limits for multi-family buildings. This rezoning is required by state law. Learn more about it.
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Meet Aimee Rozen. You can find her at the Outer Sunset farmer’s market offering something other than vegetables, honey, and bread: her ear. Aimee is a therapist who volunteers her time listening to whatever you want to share. She is a chapter leader for Sidewalk Talk, a community listening project that lets people experience what it’s like to be heard and the benefit it can provide.
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Meet Alex Pyi Phyo. At 29, he is one of the newest police officers at the Sunset’s Taraval station. From escaping a civil war in Myanmar to serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, it was a 20-year journey to get here.
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Westside residents lost more than $7 million last year in 463 reported scams. It’s a staggering number because most scams are never reported due to embarrassment and shame. My office is working to prevent these scams by teaching potential victims what to look out for. Now we’re seeing some success. Residents who were targeted and approached are reporting they could see the signs and were able to run away.
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Everyone can agree that we must improve street and pedestrian safety while helping drivers get where they need to go on the westside. Here are the latest traffic flow improvements.
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Many Sunset residents are telling me they do not support a recall. They say the entirety of my work — not just one issue — is what matters.
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As vice-chair of the public safety committee at City Hall, I’ve led two hearings to understand the capabilities and constraints around law enforcement and courts publishing its data online. The first hearing focused on the district attorney and police department. The second hearing asked the Superior Court and the Sheriff’s Department to report on their public dashboards and other data access capabilities.
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Meet Ray Vuillemainroy, a newly hired police officer at Taraval station — at age 58. He has nearly 30 years of community policing experience in South San Francisco and Santa Barbara. But retirement didn’t suit him.
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Meet Olga Camacho, the new athletic director at Lincoln High School. Responsible for 600 student athletes and 32 teams, she is a trail blazer and survivor well-suited for the herculean task.
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Meet Gail Secchia, who became a horticulturist after decades at the phone company. While the sound of lions roaring can be thrilling for visitors to the San Francisco Zoo, many seek the tranquil garden paradise that Gail created in her post-retirement career.
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These two couples run two Fiery Hot Pot locations on opposite sides of the Sunset. One on Taraval and the other on Irving. Despite the same name, they offer different approaches to yummy hot pot — the Chinese presentation of food cooked in a steaming broth.
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