Is saving San Francisco a priority for politicians?
My June 2020 column, “It’s the drugs, stupid” elicited more responses than anything I’ve written for this newspaper. Not one person disagreed with my thesis: […]
Reynolds Rap
The city family is a Machiavellian tragedy
But never, ever do you abuse your power for personal gain.The reasons are twofold.One, it’s wrong.And two, you’re going to get caught. — Willie Brown […]
Friends with Community Benefits
Over a year ago, I broke the story of Department of Public Works boss Mohammed Nuru’s corruption, his romances with Mayor London Breed and Sandra […]
It’s the drugs, stupid
At the April 8 meeting of the Board of Supervisors budget committee, City Controller Ben Rosenfield reported San Francisco hotels were providing 1,977 rooms to […]
How a vocal community and a supervisor who listened sent an encampment packing
In May, I received dozens of emails from neighbors of the Marina Safeway about open air drug use and sales, stolen goods, fights, and assaults […]
Knockout blow
There are numerous cases throughout history where people got it wrong. Very wrong. Take for example Michael Dell. At the Gartner Symposium on Oct. 6, […]
You can’t fool Mother Nature
“They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other […]
Mayor London Breed’s legacy
When I wrote my April 2019 Reynolds Rap column suggesting Mayor London Breed should fire Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru after decades of […]
DPW boss Mohammed Nuru finally swept to the curb, but not by Mayor Breed
Despite ethical missteps, misappropriated taxpayer funds, lawsuits, and incompetence as the leader of street cleaning in one of the world’s filthiest cities, the mayor continues […]
Gotham by the bay
This past September, police made a horrifying discovery inside a Santa Rosa home: Patrick O’Neill was unresponsive, and his 13-month-old son, Liam, was dead. O’Neill […]