Transparent crime data that is easily accessible to the public is essential for improving public safety.
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Remembering Mark Lim on the 20th anniversary of his death.
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Walgreens blames out-of-control shoplifting for having to close 22 stores in San Francisco this year. While theft affects the bottom line of businesses big and small, residents are also victims.
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San Francisco’s school board remains defiant while facing a recall and refuses to change course in a fiscal crisis that threatens a state takeover. The result is continued enrollment decline, which further reduces revenue and puts the school district into a death spiral. Children suffer the most.
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San Francisco’s outdated and inaccessible criminal records request system is an obstacle to public safety. It leaves journalists and crime victims unclear about what is actually happening in our criminal justice system. Our court must provide clear records on demand for everyone — it is essential to hold officials accountable.
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San Francisco lacks a fully interconnected criminal justice computer database that shares information in real time. Good data that’s easy to access can help residents understand what is really happening in our district attorney’s office, the police department, and the courts.
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San Francisco’s school board suffers from a self-inflicted “crisis of governance.” Reform is needed, which starts with recalling the most problematic commissioners. The recall is down to the wire in the final month.
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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.
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When 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.
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Two 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.
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Is 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.
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If 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.
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Update 13: Will an upcoming Supreme Court case help embattled San Francisco school board commissioner Alison Collins win her lawsuit against the school district?
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Here/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.
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Update 12: More drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
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Update 11: Drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
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Update 10: Drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
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Update 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.
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Update 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.
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Another 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.
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