Joe Eskenazi
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Michael Moritz's strange and terrible diagnosis of San Francisco
Let us start with the premise that San Francisco is a city with serious challenges and an unserious government. Let us be frank: This is a poorly governed → Read More
In San Francisco, it takes a village to do illegal construction
“I’m not a finger-pointer,” drawls Supervisor Aaron Peskin. “But the City Attorney’s office fucked this one to a fare-thee-well.” Reasonable minds → Read More
Aaron Peskin's long, strange trip
“I am deeply, deeply traumatized.” That was newly ensconced Board President Aaron Peskin’s nanosecond-quick reply when asked how his first few days back → Read More
And your next Board President is...
There may be no job with a greater divergence between its actual duties and its cachet than President of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. → Read More
Elections boss John Arntz to be offered a new term after all — and he'll accept
L’Affaire John Arntz seems to have ended on Monday night not with a bang but a whimper. The Elections Commission, facing blowback from every vestige of → Read More
San Francisco cuts and runs in the Tenderloin — and on safe-injection sites
The city this month shut down its Tenderloin Center at UN Plaza, where everyone in San Francisco government has long known that supervised drug → Read More
The real lesson of L'affaire John Arntz: Competence doesn't matter in SF
Every so often, San Francisco hands a flawless script to the nation’s right-wing blowhards and fulminating keyboard warriors, pins a “kick me” sign to its → Read More
'Pretty much everybody is high': Inmates languish in jail as influx looms
“You can break it down, into powder.” Inmate Baruwk Ross is explaining how the addiction medicine prescribed to incarcerated people in San Francisco → Read More
FBI raids Bernal Heights home
Update: Five alleged Hell's Angels arrested following beating death at Mountain View concert. See end. Residents in the vicinity of Bronte Street and → Read More
Election 2022: What's it all about?
For up-to-date data and maps, see here “So, what’s the answer? That’s what I keep asking myself. What’s it all about? Know what I mean?” —Alfie Elkins → Read More
Fear and loathing in SF: Voters are surly — but what will they do?
Forty-eight hours before Tuesday’s election day, 23 percent of San Francisco voters had returned their ballots. And, despite what you may have heard, that → Read More
Brooke Jenkins: Legal experts dismiss DA's excuses for sharing restricted files
A trio of legal ethicists have largely rejected DA Brooke Jenkins’ excuses for last year emailing sensitive documents to a colleague only days before both → Read More
Paul Pelosi: Violent attack isn't an SF story. It's the story of American politics.
The vicious, predawn Oct. 28 attack on 82-year-old Paul Pelosi was many things. It was strange. It was terrible. But it was no surprise. It was no → Read More
'This screws the sellers:' BMR owners say city is pushing them to sell at big losses
When Simon and Amy Jansuk won the San Francisco housing lottery for a Below Market Rate unit in 2018, it well and truly felt like winning the lottery. → Read More
Mayor Breed's opposition to increasing voter turnout is bewildering
Right at the onset, let’s be clear: We’re not here to tell you how to vote. You can vote for whatever or whomever you want, for whatever reason — or → Read More
24th Street BART Plaza has become the Mission's Tenderloin
Angel — we’ll call him Angel — didn’t see the argument break out. But he could certainly hear it. It was in English, which he notes that both → Read More
Victor Makras, 'the guy in every room for every mayor' guilty of bank fraud
Real estate maven Victor Makras, a man described as “tied into the inner sanctums of San Francisco politics,” was today found guilty of bank fraud and → Read More
The strange and terrible saga of Mohammed Nuru turns the page: Judge hands down 7-year sentence
The Mohammed Nuru today sentenced to seven years in prison was a diminished Mohammed Nuru, and San Francisco is a diminished city. He is no longer → Read More
SFUSD Back to School 2022: Another Op'nin', Another Show
Grant Miller, 4, walked up Bartlett Street decked out in his light-up Spider-Man sneakers. His father and best friend for the summer, Nick, trailed behind → Read More
DA Brooke Jenkins inherited a looming legal crisis. Her policies could make it worse.
As Brooke Jenkins settles into her new role atop the District Attorney’s office, observers within and without are analyzing every last move, big and → Read More