Brother Bingley is on a bus headed home from New York City at the moment and nowhere near as efficiently as usual. Why? Well, he’s been sending me action shots of “protesting” Hammas supporters with their watermelon balloons glomming up Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange, and generally making life miserable for WORKING […]
This was one of those stories that I would have had you breaking out your tin foil hat for a few years ago. Or, likewise, you well could have been (and rightly so) accusing me of picking up one too many copies of the “Oprah Gives Birth to Alien Baby!” scandal rags at the checkout […]
As regular readers know, there is a case about to be argued before the Supreme Court which could have a major impact on homelessness on the west coast. At the moment, decisions issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals make it impossible for cities to force homeless people to move (off sidewalks or out […]
There was a horrific crash in San Francisco last month. A 78-year-old woman driving a Mercedes SUV crashed into a bus stop where a family of four were waiting as they took a trip to the zoo. The tragic crash happened on March 16 while the family was on the way to the zoo and […]
As I described a few days ago, residents and business owners in San Francisco have come up with their own plan for dealing with tent camps which crowd the sidewalks and sometimes even block access to doorways. Over the past few years, they have installed heavy steel planters on the sidewalks. The planters weigh up […]
Did I say that activists in San Francisco were upset about people blocking the sidewalk? No, that can’t be right. What the activists are upset about is “planters” blocking the sidewalk. It’s being called “hostile architecture” and now the activists have convinced the city to crack down on it. San Francisco is ordering the owners […]
It’s a given that nearly everyone in San Francisco politics is on the left. Still, there’s a difference between those on the left who still want and expect a city that is sanely run and which makes a real effort to maintain public safety and the woke utopia that leftists are trying to usher in […]
This certainly isn’t the kind of news you want to see if you’re a public transportation service that is running out of money and about to push for higher taxes on local residents. The Inspector General who oversees the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system has identified employees who were clocking in for overtime and […]
What is already happening in SF is pretty bad. There’s a 36% commercial real estate vacancy rate downtown as many worker move to a permanent hybrid workweek. That means less foot traffic for downtown businesses which have been closing at a swift pace over the past year. Downtown is quickly becoming a place where people just […]
Is San Francisco still a progressive place? According the San Francisco Chronicle the answer after last night’s election is no. And the SF Standard has come to the same conclusion: Famously liberal San Francisco appeared to lurch to the right Tuesday, or at least move closer to the center, as frustrated voters approved two key […]
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