Data Reporter

Noah Baustin

San Francisco’s pandemic exodus may be over, new analysis finds

News

Thousands of people left SF during the first year of the pandemic—but Covid isn’t the only reason why the city’s population declined. Here’s the latest data on migration to and from San Francisco.

Jane Kenny

They grew up going to Giants games. Now they’ll play pro women’s soccer at Oracle Park

Sports

Local players for Bay FC will take center stage at the ballpark’s first-ever pro women’s game.

Did crime go up in San Francisco this year?

Many have painted San Francisco as a ‘Mad Max’-style wasteland under siege by unprecedented levels of crime. But a year-end analysis of crime data by The Standard shows that narrative is more spin than substance.

Senior Politics Editor

Annie Gaus

SF bar patrons dismayed as cops let alleged stalker go

Food & Drink

Witnesses on Polk Street recognized a disruptive bar patron as Bill Gene Hobbs, an alleged serial harasser of women and girls in San Francisco. 

Maia Szalavitz

Opinion: Mayor’s supposed ‘tough-love’ policy is not the cure for our addiction epidemic

Opinion

 Proposition F is political theater, where the imperative to win votes by looking tough is far greater than the desire to solve the drug problem.

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San Francisco’s pandemic exodus may be over, new analysis finds

They grew up going to Giants games. Now they’ll play pro women’s soccer at Oracle Park

Did crime go up in San Francisco this year?

SF bar patrons dismayed as cops let alleged stalker go

Opinion: Mayor’s supposed ‘tough-love’ policy is not the cure for our addiction epidemic