Senior Investigations Reporter

Michael Barba

Police beat a man during a minor traffic stop. Now SF is paying out $375K amid calls for reform

News

SF police beat a man during a 2019 traffic stop in North Beach, and the incident is now being seen as an example of why police should end the use of pretextual stops.

Julie Zigoris

This workshop keeps San Francisco’s neon signs glowing

Culture

Oakland’s Neon Works is the last company still exclusively fashioning tubes of electrified gas.

Political Reporter

Mike Ege

New and familiar challenges await supervisors in 2023

Politics

A drastically reshaped Board of Supervisors must grapple with a fiscal crisis, plus familiar issues like housing and homelessness.


Adam Brinklow

Ticket racket: Outside Lands giveaways expose an ‘only in San Francisco’ flavor of corruption

Freebies were passed for years to city staffers, and the SF Standard’s reporting shows that is anything but typical.  

Matthew Kupfer

From tech haven to has-been: San Francisco’s once-thriving SoMa neighborhood struggles to find footing

Business

Once a center for tech offices and new housing, South of Market hasn’t bounced back from the pandemic. What does its future hold?

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Police beat a man during a minor traffic stop. Now SF is paying out $375K amid calls for reform

This workshop keeps San Francisco’s neon signs glowing

New and familiar challenges await supervisors in 2023

Ticket racket: Outside Lands giveaways expose an ‘only in San Francisco’ flavor of corruption

From tech haven to has-been: San Francisco’s once-thriving SoMa neighborhood struggles to find footing