The Standard Staff

The Standard’s guide to shopping local this holiday season

Culture

Here are 20 staff recommendations for unique, offbeat, and affordable gifts for the people you love.

Senior Investigations Reporter

Michael Barba

Money in politics: Recology spent big on lobbying to beat back threat to garbage monopoly

Politics

San Francisco trash-hauling giant Recology spent nearly $500,000 trying to influence City Hall officials last year after a corruption scandal forced the firm to admit to overcharging customers an astonishing amount and put its decades-old monopoly on local garbage at risk.

Jennifer Pahlka

‘Not your house. My house’: A home invasion and its agonizing aftermath

A mentally ill man invaded my home, and the cops took two days to show up. But who was the victim? And who is to blame? 


Sports Reporter

John Shea

Spring training wins mean squat. But the Giants are showing signs of life

Sports

Is one offseason enough time for Buster Posey's vision to take shape? The early returns say ... maybe?

Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

War for JFK Drive: How a museum’s money is shaping the fight over San Francisco’s most controversial street

News

A nonprofit linked to the de Young Museum and San Francisco’s Fines Arts Museums agency has deployed a powerful team of lobbyists to combat a highly motivated group of parents as the fate of JFK Drive hangs in the balance.

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The Standard’s guide to shopping local this holiday season

Money in politics: Recology spent big on lobbying to beat back threat to garbage monopoly

‘Not your house. My house’: A home invasion and its agonizing aftermath

Spring training wins mean squat. But the Giants are showing signs of life

War for JFK Drive: How a museum’s money is shaping the fight over San Francisco’s most controversial street