John King

Paper Trails

Cult Hit for Nobody

Papered Over

The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point

Change of Heart

M. Ward's new album is damn fine folk -- from a guy who used to ignore folk music

The Affordable Housing Disaster

How a cozy alliance of government bureaucrats and nonprofit developers spends tens of millions of dollars building almost no housing for the poor

Night Crawler

How a cozy alliance of government bureaucrats and nonprofit developers spends tens of millions of dollars building almost no housing for the poor

Downtown's Fairy Godmother

Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

Unspun

Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

Unspun

Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

The Emperors Really Nice Clothes

Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

Chief Netherlands Architect Is Sorely Mistaken About Mission Bay

In yesterday's Chronicle, reporter John King relayed the musings of Liesbeth van der Pohl, the chief government architect of the Netherlands, on certain sites in San Francisco. She liked the Painted Ladies. She liked the De Young. And she liked...Mission Bay!?! "It's a very nice atmos ... More >>

Ideal Location Found For Itinerant Fisher Collection -- At Its Current Gap, Inc. Site

Don't scream -- there's a perfectly sound place to put all Don Fisher's art: Where it already is.Kudos to the Chronicle's John King for today's scoop on Donald Fisher's decision to abandon his contentious plan to house his modern art collection at the Presidio National Park. "Doris and I will take s ... More >>