Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

Supervisor Dean Preston stars on shadowy ‘news’ website created by his political group

Politics

SF’s most progressive supervisor received glowing coverage from a website that was quietly backed by the Democratic Socialists of America and appears to feature fake authors.

The recall of Chesa Boudin: How the pandemic fed a national attack on progressive prosecutors

News

District Attorney Chesa Boudin and other progressive prosecutors across the country took office with what they considered a mandate to reshape the criminal justice system. An anxious electorate and Republicans eager to capitalize on any miscues have changed the math.

News Reporter

David Sjostedt

Maryann Jones Thompson

The Standard Top 25: The nonprofits getting the most from SF’s $668M homelessness budget

The city’s homelessness department has doled out more than $268 million to nonprofits in the current fiscal year, amounting to more than $1 billion since 2018.

Jane Natoli

Opinion: Public comment feels less like civic participation and more like a DDoS attack on democracy

Opinion

A meeting of the Redistricting Task Force on Saturday went for 19 hours. That’s not good for any of us.

The Standard Top 10: Who is SF’s highest-paid city official?

Mayor Breed makes more than any other U.S. mayor but she’s nowhere near the top of the list of SF’s best-compensated employees.

Leo Cooperband

Supervisor Dean Preston stars on shadowy ‘news’ website created by his political group

The recall of Chesa Boudin: How the pandemic fed a national attack on progressive prosecutors

The Standard Top 25: The nonprofits getting the most from SF’s $668M homelessness budget

Opinion: Public comment feels less like civic participation and more like a DDoS attack on democracy

The Standard Top 10: Who is SF’s highest-paid city official?