Drive time
A year ago, San Francisco Examiner reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez sent shockwaves with one big number: 45,000. According to data he received from the San Francisco […]
Reynolds Rap
Angela Alioto on the 25th anniversary of the smoking ban
When you ask politicians if they’re running for office, you expect coy deflection or a flat-out no, even if that no really means yes, but […]
White supremacists might not be as white as they think they are
When my Irish and Ukrainian father married my mother, it didn’t go over well with my Sicilian grandfather, but when he decided to move her […]
Why some San Francisco landlords don’t want to rent
“So your Airbnb tenant now has Airbnb tenants?” — Erlich Bachman to Jared Dunn upon learning an Airbnb tenant is squatting in Jared’s San Francisco […]
The Amazon in the room
Bezos: “Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods”
Alexa: “Buying Whole Foods”
Bezos: S**t
— Jeff Lewis (@ChicagoPhotoSho) on Twitter
When local small-business success story Pet Food Express wanted to open in a blighted, long-vacant building on Lombard Street, pet stores as far away as Pacifica formed a coalition to stop them. At community meetings, owner after owner talked about the adverse effect a “chain” would have on their livelihood, but what struck me was that not one of them mentioned the elephant in the room — online sales — and in particular the biggest elephant of them all, Amazon.com.
It’s time to tax foreign homebuyers
On April 24, 2017, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house located at 1531 25th Avenue in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset district sold for $1.55 million — a […]
Living in la-la land
Last month, the San Francisco school board voted unanimously to offer Vincent Matthews a three-year contract paying $310,000 per year, $60,000 more than the $250,000 […]
The peculiar priorities of Mayor Ed Lee
According to recent data compiled by American City Business Journals, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is the highest paid mayor in America with an annual […]
The Trump effect
A little over 9 percent of San Franciscans voted for Donald Trump. I wasn’t one of them, but I understand why people did. It was […]
The ‘me-me-me millionaires’ still not taking charitable chances
In December 2012, i wrote an editorial called “The Me-Me-Me Millionaires” in which I called out nouveau riche tech workers for their lack of interest […]