Perspectives
Perspective: SF’s School Board Recall Sets the Stage for Real Reforms
Perspective: Culture Warrior and Housing Rebel: SF’s State Senator, Scott Wiener, Carves a Fresh Path
Perspective: Don’t Wait on Congress for Climate Action—Here’s How SF Residents Can Decarbonize Some Sh*t
Perspective: Proposal to Support Struggling SF Students Deserves Voter Support
Perspective: What the ‘Garbology’ of SF’s Filthy Streets Can Teach Us About the City
Perspective: Lowell High School’s Merit-Based Admissions Policy is Not the District’s Real Inequity
Perspective: With Six Deaths on SF Streets in May Alone, It’s Time to Admit Vision Zero Has Failed
Perspective: Warriors Past and Future: Chase Center Still a ‘Great Night Out’ For This Oracle Arena Fan
Perspective: California’s ‘Red-Flag’ Law Can Help Prevent Mass Shootings. SF Must Use It More.
Perspective: We Should Be Outraged About the Conditions in SROs. SF Must Rethink What ‘Getting People off the Streets’ Means
Perspective: SF Has Eight Months to Submit a Plan for 80,000 New Homes. If We Don’t, We’re in an Even Deeper Mess
Perspective: The Best Time to Build the Downtown Extension Was Decades Ago. The Second-Best Time Is Now.
Perspective: SF’s Proposed Downtown Railway Extension Is an Unnecessary Boondoggle
Perspective: The Only People Served by Prop. C Are the Politicians Who Placed It on the Ballot
Perspective: Let’s Topple the Housing Monuments of Our Racist Past, Starting with St. Francis Wood
Perspective: Introducing the ‘Burrito Plan,’ One Way to Safety on Valencia Street
Perspective: Gov. Newsom’s Proposed CARE Courts Are Political Theater, Not a Solution to the Homelessness Crisis
Perspective: Remembering Michael Gosney, a Futurist, Eco-Pioneer, and San Franciscan Par Excellence
Perspective: California Nurses Urge a No Vote on the Chesa Boudin Recall
Perspective: SF’s Redistricting Process Will Hurt the Nation’s First Transgender Cultural District
Perspective: Public Comment Feels Less Like Civic Participation and More Like a DDoS Attack on Democracy
Perspective: It’s Time for SF to Rethink Street Lighting
Perspective: How Turning Hate Mail into a Book of Poems Liberated One Reporter
Perspective: With Gas Prices So High, It’s Time for SF to Get Serious About E-bikes
Perspective: SF Has the Opportunity to Become a Real ‘Paris of the West’
Perspective: How The Oscars Slap Sidelined ‘Writing with Fire,’ a Film About an All-Women News Team
Perspective: California Cities Have Plenty of Room and There’s No Reason to Build New Ones from Scratch
Perspective: For This Muni Operator, a Silly Horn Is a Serious Solution to Keep Buses Moving
Perspective: The Rise of Fentanyl Is No Accident, and It’s Not Going Away
Perspective: The Time to Abolish Daylight Saving Time Is Now
Perspective: The ‘Sunshine Protection Act’ Should Be Called the ‘Dark Mornings Act’
Perspective: How California Could Become a Refuge for Reproductive Rights
Perspective: Noise Pop Serves as Reminder That Live Music is Essential to SF
Perspective: Proposal to Limit SF Recall Elections Weakens Democracy
Perspective: Tech Leaders: Stop Whining About SF’s Problems, and Start Helping
Perspective: Bruce Pettit, Unsung Hero of the Gay Marriage Revolution
Perspective: San Francisco Police Illegally Used Surveillance Cameras at the George Floyd Protests. The Courts Must Stop Them
Perspective: Surveillance and Civil Liberties are Both Crucial to Fixing San Francisco
Perspective: ‘San Fransicko’: Provocative Book Blames Progressives for Ruining SF, But Critics Aren’t Having It
Perspective: ‘San Fransicko’ is Thought-Provoking and Hard to Dismiss, Click-Bait Packaging Aside
Perspective: ‘San Fransicko’ Gets It Upside Down: It’s Neoliberals Who Ruin Cities
Perspective: Why Your Chances of Being a Crime Victim in S.F. May Be Up, Even When Crime is Down