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.

Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

Crypto, tech stocks and expensive homes: What SF’s elected officials own

The Standard scoured public records to better understand how Mayor London Breed and San Francisco supervisors invest their cash.

Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen showers cash on London Breed—and scorn on her foes

Property crimes spurred Ripple founder Chris Larsen into a funder of surveillance cameras and a major player in San Francisco politics.

Senior Politics Editor

Annie Gaus

At the Granada Hotel, a rush to house the homeless comes at the expense of elderly tenants

News

Residents say conditions at the building have gotten much worse since the city and a non-profit service provider bought it last year. A lawsuit alleges elder abuse. 

State regulators could decide oil profits penalty

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he wants state regulators to decide whether to impose the nation’s first penalty on oil companies for price gouging.

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

Crypto, tech stocks and expensive homes: What SF’s elected officials own

Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen showers cash on London Breed—and scorn on her foes

At the Granada Hotel, a rush to house the homeless comes at the expense of elderly tenants

State regulators could decide oil profits penalty