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Four years ago I was pushing a jogging stroller through the muddy mists of Mount Sutro when the area's usual tangle of ivy, blackberry, and eucalyptus branches opened up into...
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In an age when Google, Apple, Facebook, Foursquare, and their ilk have made manifest the statement "privacy is dead: get over it," some of us still find ourselves annoyed by a...
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At age 64, Brenda Reed of Lafayette is reaching a point in life when most of us expect to rest on our accomplishments. Instead, she faces starting over from scratch as she...
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In a year when California faces a $19 billion budget deficit, how do politicians in Sacramento propose to solve it? By pushing cities, counties, and the state into deeper...
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Ralph Montana, the city official charged with abating San Francisco's park-dwelling pests, recently found his thoughts invaded by cannibalistic greenish-gray creatures. "I...
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It's hard to imagine there could ever be a patsy as gullible as Winston Lum, a club tennis pro and occasional shoplifter now facing a possible life sentence for his role in an...
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As City Hall struggles to close a $483 million budget gap, the San Francisco Department of the Environment has faced the opposite quandary: It must figure out how to spend...
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Eight years ago, political consultants orbiting ascendant Supervisor Gavin Newsom commissioned a poll showing likely voters viewed homelessness as San Francisco's biggest...
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Some months ago, as I rode my bicycle home along Crissy Field in the Presidio, a man rode up beside me and introduced himself. Sean Breward was riding to the Sunset home he...
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Since the days of the Barbary Coast, people have come to San Francisco to reinvent themselves. A once-wealthy real estate speculator became mad Emperor Norton. A youngster...
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For those wondering whether California is on its way to becoming Greece, witness an alarming pattern in which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger comes up with ways to plunge the...
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Was Kamala Harris merely sloppy when she failed to disclose a crime lab scandal and the criminal backgrounds of police who were trial witnesses? Or does she have a policy of...
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Some sports fans believe that doping scandals are a meaningless distraction from what is essentially mindless entertainment. Others believe doping is anticompetitive, corrupts...
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Last Halloween, Officer Jane Warner and her patrol partner, Antjuan Taswell, walked along the closed-off roads around Castro and 17th streets, greeting revelers and merchants,...
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Can jokes about sweltering gonads and cauliflower ears re-surrect manufacturing in this city? One-time TV comedy writer Chris Lindland, founder of San Francisco clothing...
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If progressive morality can be measured in piss-into-the-wind proclamations such as last week's proposal to boycott Arizona, San Francisco is Mecca. Gauged in terms of...
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As official exhortations go in this city, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell's recent nonbinding Meatless Monday resolution — suggesting restaurants, stores, and schools offer...
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Early last year, Fred Bekele, owner of Convenient Parking, scraped together $200,000 in bank loans to take his small business big time. He partnered with the Vancouver-based...
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The Police Commission has become a Triple-A farm league for San Francisco politics. Batting for the current Board of Supervisors is former commissioner and Harvard Law alum...
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Now that last week's health care vote has put behind us the phony fretting about death panels, federally funded abortion holocausts, and socialist takeovers, it's time for...
