Barry Lam

Opinion: Addicted to rules: How to slay the bureaucratic beast, from SF to DC

Bureaucratic bloat is real, but we won’t fix it by cutting half the federal workforce. A philosopher has a different idea.


In SF, El Lopo’s Take-Care-Of-Me Club rewards customers with credits and the ability to gift a free drink to anyone in the bar.

At tonight’s meeting, issues such as limiting remote public comment and ‘red-baiting’ were also continued.

The money transfer service used legitimate clients to mask the identity of the drug dealers whose money they laundered 

Ken Hong Wong’s defense attorney admits Wong paid former Public Works head Mohammed Nuru cash to get someone a city job.