Adam Brinklow

Ticket racket: Outside Lands giveaways expose an ‘only in San Francisco’ flavor of corruption

Freebies were passed for years to city staffers, and the SF Standard’s reporting shows that is anything but typical.  

Losing a cushy job can come with a pay cut — and a new sense of purpose. 


Due to a financial crisis, the SFUSD 
signaled plans to close, relocate, and consolidate schools.. 

A small business owner can't get the city to do anything about the fires from the tent encampment next door: "I don't want to be a vigilante."

In the absence of federal action, city public school systems are pursuing their own efforts to right historic wrongs at the local level. 