There are 52 superior court judges serving San Francisco. They are elected. Yet most voters have never heard of them. The judiciary shouldn’t be a mysterious Star Chamber. If you care about courtroom outcomes, it’s important to know who the judges are.
Read MoreWhen a 94-year-old woman was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Lower Nob Hill home, local media in San Francisco named the victim and the suspect — but curiously never named a central figure in the story: Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin. This is a disservice to the public.
Read MoreTwo moms call out the politicians who played games with school reopening while exhausted parents had to organize and protest to become their own heroes in the fight to reopen schools.
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 MoreIf neighborhood politics in San Francisco were a Netflix show, it would star 77-year-old Carol Dimmick. You’d get a combo of Schitt’s Creek and Parks and Recreation that reveals the humor and pathos of residents trying to improve their patch of life.
Read MoreUpdate 13: Will an upcoming Supreme Court case help embattled San Francisco school board commissioner Alison Collins win her lawsuit against the school district?
Read MoreHere/Say Media interviewed the victim’s grandson, Jack Liao, who claimed the district attorney’s office kept the family “in the dark” while trying to convince his non-English speaking grandfather to agree to no prosecution.
Read MoreUpdate 12: More drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
Read MoreUpdate 11: Drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
Read MoreUpdate 10: Drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
Read MoreUpdate 9: The school board recall petitions are ready to sign — just when we need them most. No one thought the school board could become any more dysfunctional. But is has. A recall can’t come soon enough. Instructions on how to download, print, and sign your petition.
Read MoreUpdate 8: As the San Francisco school board descends into ever-more chaos and controversy, we must keep perspective on why the call to replace and reform the school board was raised in the first place.
Read MoreAnother troubling week for Asian Americans. The discrimination of the past century is a direct line to modern San Francisco, where violence against Asian residents was a problem long before the politics of a pandemic scapegoated Asian Americans.
Read MoreUpdate 7: Meet the mom behind the powerful parent movement to safely open all of San Francisco’s public schools full time — against all odds.
Read MoreA TV news crew reporting on increased crime is robbed of their camera at gunpoint. Before expressing outrage over this ironic property crime, we can’t ignore the violent and senseless killings in San Francisco recently — especially the numerous attacks on Asian seniors.
Read MoreUpdate 6: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board. Includes news about charter amendment to appoint versus elect school board..
Read MoreUpdate 5: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board. Includes news about recall.
Read MoreUpdate 4: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board. Includes news about recall launch.
Read MoreUpdate 3: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board.
Read MoreUpdate 2: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board.
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