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 […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom is in Washington, D.C. for the annual Governor’s Conference. Yesterday he and other governors were at the White House meeting with President Biden. As Newsom was schmoozing with DHS Secretary Mayorkas, hundreds of illegal aliens were being released in San Diego. Border Patrol dropped them off at a San Diego bus […]
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 […]
Politicians SAY a lot of things; some they mean, some they don’t. So you should always look at what they do and how they spend the money they take from citizens. And, as importantly, whose pockets that money ends up in. The latter is even more important than the former. There’s a great article in […]
I feel like the stories that come out of San Francisco are frequently an embarrassment to the city, to its leaders and oftentimes to its residents who, let’s face it, voted for a lot of what they are getting. But this particular story reaches to the level of international embarrassment. Back in early 2020, just […]
Way back in October of 2022 I was both amused and dismayed by a story about San Francisco’s efforts to add a single small public bathroom to a spot called Noe Valley Town Square. It was amusing because despite already having run plumbing for a toilet the state was told it would cost $1.7 million […]
It’s not just the state of California that is facing a big budget deficit. San Francisco’s own projected deficit keeps growing. Just last month, Mayor London Breen announced she was looking for a 10% budget cut to deal with a projected deficit of $800 million. City budget officials have projected a deficit of $800 million […]
San Francisco ended 2023 with the highest commercial real estate vacancy rate in the city’s history. San Francisco’s amount of vacant office space has reached the highest level ever recorded in the city’s history. According to preliminary fourth quarter data provided by real estate brokerage CBRE, the city’s vacancy rate ticked up nearly 2 percentage […]
Yesterday I wrote that San Francisco is a cult. It was a VIP article, so you may not have seen it. Shame on you! Sign up for VIP! Use code SAVEAMERICA to get 40% off, you heathen! I wrote that piece after viewing the disgusting behavior–and cultish behavior–of the pro-Hamas crowd after San Francisco made […]
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