Editor-at-Large

Adam Lashinsky

An SF committee chair wants to kill off her own commission. It’s a great start

Opinion

San Francisco’s 130 advisory bodies and committees collectively cost $34 million to operate, an investment that’s getting harder and harder for City Hall to countenance. 

In the Lurie Era, city business is getting done with speed, rigor — and risk

The selection of an unapproved vendor to create a new permitting platform shows how willing the mayor is to move fast and break bad habits. 

Anonymous

Opinion: SF officials want to make it harder to sit in public. We’re fighting back with benches

How to make the city less hostile? The anonymous creators behind the Bay Area's guerrilla Bench Collective have a workable idea. 

Express Desk Reporter

Max Harrison-Caldwell

No shit! City department considers slashing popular potty program

News

As city agencies scour their budgets for items to cut, the Department of Public Works has set its eyes on the Pit Stop program.

Senior News Reporter

George Kelly

Deputy Breaking News Editor

Michael McLaughlin

‘Rat Island’: City ‘deploying all tools’ to destroy rodent paradise

San Francisco is going to war to wipe out the inhabitants of a notorious infested street median.