John has written some excellent pieces on the trouble the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) is in. Perhaps one of the reasons it is doing so poorly–ridership is less than 50% of what it was pre-pandemic–is that the people running the system are, to put it kindly, insane. Workers are clocking in without doing […]
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 […]
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 […]
As most readers already know, the entire western US has been dealing with a growing homeless problem for years. That problem has been exacerbated by a couple of court decisions issued by the 9th Circuit (whose decisions only apply to western states). The two decisions, Boise and Grants Pass, both found that municipalities do not […]
Yesterday I wrote about the announcement that Macys was closing about a third of its stores including the flagship store in San Francisco. What I tried to point out is that even if the closure of this store had more to do with corporate problems at Macys and a general trend toward online shopping which […]
The bad news is that San Francisco is losing yet another flagship retailer downtown. The good news is that this time they aren’t the only ones. Macy’s announced today that it will close about 30% of its outlets nationwide which works out to about 150 stores. Macy’s will close its flagship Union Square store, according […]
One of the fundamental jobs of local government is public safety. Usually that means funding a police force that is capable of dealing with whatever crime a city is facing. But progressive city supervisors in San Francisco, many of whom were fans of defunding the police just a few years ago, are now putting forward […]
As if San Francisco didn’t have enough problems with petty crimes, now the city is having to dismiss hundreds of cases which have dragged on for years thanks to the massive backlog created by the pandemic. It’s great news for everyone who was charged with a misdemeanor in 2020 or 2021. In May 2023, Brenda […]
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