Did you know the big terracotta-roofed building on Vicente Street in the Sunset was once home to the San Francisco Orphan Asylum? That’s what it was called a century ago. Today it's still there. Now called the Edgewood Center for Children and Families, it is the Bay Area's oldest provider of behavioral health services for youth and teens. And it’s poised to tackle some of the present day’s biggest challenges when it comes to mental health.
Read MoreToo many skateboards were piling up in front of the secretary’s desk at A.P. Giannini Middle School (kids aren’t allowed to roll down the hallways). So a handy parent solved the gnarly problem with some ingenuity welcomed by school staff.
Read MoreI believe San Francisco’s best days are ahead. We deserve to live in a city that works. Here’s how.
Read MoreDo you still believe in San Francisco? I do. I’m running for supervisor to create our best San Francisco.
Read MoreIs it possible to create housing in San Francisco that isn’t controversial? Pierce Smith and Ed Taylor discovered a way to quietly meet their housing needs while avoiding the city’s fierce political battles over where and what to build.
Read MoreWhen we’re forced to work and attend school from our kitchen tables, a shaky internet connection at home is as frustrating as driving down a bumpy road. City Hall is supposed to fill potholes. Perhaps it’s time to add fiber infrastructure to the list of essential municipal services. Fiber in every home would benefit everyone and give our local economy a boost in a post-pandemic world.
Read MoreThe Neighborhood News Network interviews Joel Engardio about what City Hall must do to save small businesses in San Francisco.
Read MoreTriangle Park and many more forgotten mini-parks like it throughout our city have a new relevance in the pandemic era. That’s why now is the time to get the Triangle Parks of San Francisco into shape.
Read MorePolice departments must implement rigorous training and only hire police officers who will serve everybody at the highest standard. This requires investment. San Francisco's police department has put a lot of work into reforms in recent years and has made much progress. That's why defunding or disbanding SFPD would be reckless. This is the time to remake, reimagine and reinvest in policing that keeps everyone safe.
Read MoreA radical change in our attitude toward business is needed if we want local merchants to survive beyond coronavirus — and keep our city from spiraling into irrelevance. Small businesses were going extinct in San Francisco long before the pandemic turned everything upside down. City Hall’s excessive fees, regulations and bureaucracy are to blame.
Read MoreHundreds of San Franciscans signed our petition asking Stonestown Mall to offer its parking lot as a coronavirus testing site. Their voices were heard and we’re continuing the petition to advocate for even more expanded testing.
Read MoreWe need to ramp up coronavirus testing. We need a safe place to get tested while practicing social distancing. What if we turned the giant — and mostly empty — parking lot at Stonestown Mall into a drive-thru testing site? Sign the petition to make it happen.
Read MoreThe uglier national politics get, some seek solace in local matters. But what happens when local concerns end up feeling as divisive as the national ones? Two women trying to beautify San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood offer some inspiration and cautionary tales.
Read MoreIf presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg can pick a running mate as well as a husband, America will be in good hands. It’s just one of many impressions from my lucky dinner with Pete and Chasten Buttigieg.
Read MoreIf a defendant is re-arrested awaiting a court appearance, the sheriff needs to know. Yet she often doesn’t because San Francisco lacks a fully interconnected criminal justice database that shares information in real time. After 20 years and tens of millions spent, will City Hall ever get it to work?
Read MoreMerchant corridor doctor Vas Kiniris has a prescription for San Francisco’s historic West Portal: Embrace the future. “Millennials run the world now. But the rest of us can still be active participants in contemporary life. We can be perennials — always growing and blooming.”
Read MoreCan a Paris streetscape inspire us to create 10,000 new homes for middle-income families? Dom-i-city is a bold idea that solves land creation, financing, affordability and neighborhood quality of life in ways never considered in San Francisco.
Read MoreAfrican Americans arrested for being in a Starbucks and the Supreme Court deciding if businesses can deny LGBTQ customers. Today’s news reminds Angelic Williams of The Green Book that helped her grandparents travel safely in Jim Crow America. So she created an app that tells LGBTQ people of color where they’re welcome.
Read MoreWith all the challenges the world faces today, why do we need a $40 million memorial to World War I? Because today’s great grandchildren are still fighting it. And we still haven’t learned “what is past is prologue.”
Read MoreHeroin needles and broken glass from car break-ins litter San Francisco streets. Property crimes and housing prices continue to soar. Perhaps our city should turn its lonely eyes to Assessor Carmen Chu: "Think of me as your neighborhood assessor."
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