It should come as no surprise that an enterprising San Franciscan came up with the idea to host a “doom loop” tour of the moldering city on a hill. The plot twist is that Alex Ludlum, who put together the…
Several states, including California, Maryland, and New York, have a new vision for public schools: as one-stop centers for medical and social services, not only for students but for their families as well. The transformed schools are called “community schools,”…
Musk will continue to headquarter his social media company X, the rebranded version of Twitter, in San Francisco, according to a recent tweet. Since he bought the company in 2022, Musk says he has received multiple offers to move the…
It’s no secret people have been fleeing America’s cities for the past three years. According to the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan public policy organization, more than two million people left our cities between July 2020 and July 2022. In…
Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, wants to give away all your money. Well, most of it, anyway. She has proposed paying out $14 trillion in reparations. That’s more than half of America’s annual GDP. Alas, giving her half…
I left San Francisco just in time — at the end of 2016. Sure, I saw the occasional junkie shooting up in public when I still worked in the city. And yes, I saw men use the sidewalk at the…
We’ll try to make this a truly quick Five Quick Things because you’ve probably had as long a week as I’ve had. The big news? On Thursday, the FBI arrested an Air National Guard airman from Massachusetts, really a 21-year-old…
San Francisco is ground zero for reparation demands. Its Board of Supervisors voiced “enthusiastic support” for a list of proposals, including $5 million for every eligible Black adult and guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years. Supervisors…
Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West’s Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber By John Boessenecker (Hanover Square Press, 376 pages, $32.99) Stagecoach holdups were a staple of those Western movies of the fifties that I so enjoyed…
As the old Dana Carvey Church Lady used to say on Saturday Night Live: “How conveeeeeeeeeeenient!” Much is being made of San Francisco’s look at reparations. Here’s a CNN headline: San Francisco leaders show early support for $5 million reparation…