SF News San Francisco Was Declared Dead, and Full of AIDS and Drugs and Homeless People, Multiple Times In the Last 50 Years The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.
SF News It Will Always Be More Profitable/Clickable to Shit On San Francisco, So People Will Always Do It Being a San Francisco-basher gets you a lot of cred on Twitter (and Fox News) these days, as an Examiner columnist points out. But lots of people have been at this game for many years.
SF News Pendulum Swings and National Press Decides San Francisco Is Cool Again Suddenly, some editors on high have decided San Francisco is OK again, and still very pretty, and maybe it has something to do with the Presidio Tunnel Tops opening?
SF News Op-Ed: We've Learned Nothing Since the 1918 Pandemic About Collective Duty The right wing has convinced itself that vaccine mandates are fascist, and because no one can agree on the same facts, America is going to stay trapped in this cycle of pandemic denial well into the next public health crisis.
SF News Op-Ed: Restructuring Police Department Oversight If the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are to have a lasting impact on police practices in this country, they must be accompanied by legislative action.
SF News Op-Ed: UCSF Doctor Blasts City For Not Putting Homeless In Hotels After Discharging Patient Onto the Street As city officials continue to debate the feasibility and prudence of trying to provide hotel rooms as shelter for San Francisco's approximately 8,000 homeless people, a doctor at UCSF has a personal tale of having to discharge a homeless patient who tested negative for COVID-19.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Laptops In Restaurants: Nuisance, Or Menace? I was recently sitting in a restaurant in the Castro where bar seating is available for dinner, and I watched as a man walked in, ordered an entree, asked advice on wine, and
