Senior Reporter

Jonah Owen Lamb

Is legitimacy a viable solution for San Francisco’s Hill Bomb skate event?

News

Would permitting the skateboarding event prevent mass arrests and improve safety?

Senior Investigations Reporter

Michael Barba

A possible vigilante repeatedly bear-sprayed the homeless. Why didn’t SF Police warn the public?

In a November police report seen by The Standard, an officer said there had been “a series of battery incidents […] targeting the transient population.”

Politics Reporter

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

City cancels $10M in Dream Keeper funds, hitting trans and senior programs

Politics

The latest fallout imperils programs meant to help Black, Chinese and trans communities.

Maryann Jones Thompson

Burning Man and a tiny town stop a huge green energy project—for now

Culture

Impassioned testimony from townspeople moved Washoe County commissioners to deny a local permit for geothermal drilling in Gerlach, Nevada.

Gabe Greschler

San Franciscans overwhelmingly support surveillance cameras, police chases

But less than half of voters polled on Prop. E support the police department’s use of facial recognition technology.

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Is legitimacy a viable solution for San Francisco’s Hill Bomb skate event?

A possible vigilante repeatedly bear-sprayed the homeless. Why didn’t SF Police warn the public?

City cancels $10M in Dream Keeper funds, hitting trans and senior programs

Burning Man and a tiny town stop a huge green energy project—for now

San Franciscans overwhelmingly support surveillance cameras, police chases