At the end of last month Mayor Lurie proposed a new budget for the city of San Francisco. It came in just under $16 billion dollars. That included a bunch of cuts to try to eliminate a projected deficit of $782 million. One way to cut those funds is to cut back on city jobs....
I honestly have no idea how I missed this. The San Francisco Chronicle has been running a series of stories on permitting nightmares for two years. The most recent installment is from March of this year. It involves a newly renovated donut shop and the placement of a single sink. [Rebekah] Ahn’s family has owned...
San Francisco has a lot of problems to deal with already, a broke public transportation system, a broke school system, corruption, a failing downtown, criminal justice problems, homelessness, etc. What the city didn’t need on top of all of that was a very public scandal involving a high-profile progressive in city government. But that’s what...
Give San Francisco this much credit: at least their latest art installation doesn’t prompt any confusion over what it depicts. We think, anyway. But we’ll get to that point shortly. These days, civic art installations usually take the form of modern-art monstrosities, especially sculpture. The most common reaction to these municipal art choices is inevitably,...