Politics Reporter

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

The District 8 candidate said his past life of addiction and petty crime prepared him to handle the city’s most pressing crises.

If State Sen. Scott Wiener makes a bid for Congress, Castro Supervisor Rafael Mandelman plans to run for his seat.

Chef Bradley Kilgore’s Italian-Japanese restaurant at the Transamerica Pyramid is as fancy as fancy gets. But it still has meatballs.

A pause on J-1 student visa interviews threatens to strand foreign workers and upend summer child-care plans for thousands of California families.

Fried fish, American cheese, tartar sauce — an incredibly comforting trifecta.