Mission Local has learned that the San Francisco Planning Commission advanced the name of Sarah Dennis Phillips to Mayor Lurie to become the next head of city planning. Three commissioners walked out of today's meeting before the vote. missionlocal.org/2025/06/sara... by @esksf.bsky.social

JUST IN: Several city workers were arrested during a protest during the Board of Supervisors meeting at City Hall. Some 100 union members had interrupted the meeting to call attention to the mayor's proposed layoffs. via @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/06/unio...

Conditions around the Potrero Hill shopping mall have been poor for years, employees say. But drug deals & loitering have gotten worse, workers say, since SFPD operations at 16th and Mission started. missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-p...

ICYMI Mayor Lurie is—monomaniacally—sticking to his script. He's not making performative anti-Trump statements. He won't even say the president's name. He is leaving that to politicians with the inclination and ability to do something. Will he be rewarded or punished by voters? subtxt.to/uQ3T7yw

Here's a good piece from @esksf.bsky.social on this from a while ago: missionlocal.org/2025/02/joel...

🎧 Listen to the Podcast! @esksf.bsky.social, @michaelbarba.bsky.social, Sutro Stewards' Ildiko Polony and Nicola Miner on the shut down of the San Francisco Parks Alliance and what it means for the city's outdoor areas. 🔗: buff.ly/ecWqvIT

Mayor Daniel Lurie can do San Francisco no good by trash-talking Trump. At least not yet. He's showing restraint. But will he be rewarded by voter -- or punished? missionlocal.org/2025/06/mayo...

"Run Paul Run"? Mayor's office insists this won't happen with interim SFPD chief Paul Yep. But the internal bench for permanent chief is thin: Every last deputy chief is either retiring, purportedly will soon retire or is out on disability. From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/05/paul...

For years and years, dirty engineer Rodrigo Santos and corrupt building inspector Bernie Curran did as they pleased at the Dept. of Building Inspection. Until both went to prison. And *this* is the city's offer to their victims? From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/05/rodr...

Catch me on NPR’s national “Here and Now” show with the inimitable Deepa Fernandez today talking about my book, “The Lost and The Found” — @atriabooks.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social here’s the recording and an excerpt from the book: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

A banger of a conversation on 100 Days of @danielluriesf.bsky.social Listen here @kalwradio.bsky.social bit.ly/42ClTe9 Host: Manny Yekutiel Media Roundtable: Joe Eskenazi @esksf.bsky.social @missionlocal.org JD Morris @sfchronicle.com Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez @sfstandard.com

It's a journo roundtable from across The City! Listen to @kalwradio.bsky.social's State of the Bay to hear myself, Mission Local's @esksf.bsky.social and the @sfchronicle.com's JD Morris talk SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's fist 100 days in office. www.kalw.org/show/state-b...

California's AG is trying to put a city prosecutor in prison. But it's not San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins. From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/04/broo...

California's AG is trying to put a prosecutor into prison. It's not San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins. missionlocal.org/2025/04/broo...

This interview goes significantly deeper than most. Xueer Lu and @esksf.bsky.social push Lurie to go past the use of force, and admit that the current strategy is just pushing people around and wont fundamentally solve anything. Lot's of interesting little details in this interview.

In a sit-down interview, Mayor Daniel Lurie said police would follow drug dealers and users around town for as long as it took. We asked: How do you get beyond just following them? missionlocal.org/2025/04/inte...

MON 6pm @kalwradio.bsky.social Manny Yekutiel hosts a media roundtable - 100 days of @danielluriesf.bsky.social Joe Eskenazi @esksf.bsky.social @missionlocal.org JD Morris @sfchronicle.com Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez @sfstandard.com & Matt Kepnes w tips from "How to Travel the World on $75 a Day"

DA Brooke Jenkins has, in her years atop the office, moved drastically away from the diversion programs championed by her ousted predecessor, Chesa Boudin. Now, to borrow the line from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean," *she's in one.* missionlocal.org/2025/04/broo... From @esksf.bsky.social

Do you have plans Thursday evening? You could do worse than joining me for a panel discussion on the strange and terrible scene around 16th and Mission — its past, present and future. www.eventbrite.com/e/mission-lo...

These are awful. They combine "Backyard Baseball" with "Couldn't get the rights to the actual uniforms for our movie"

San Francisco's recovery plan for its decimated Downtown is complicated, and much of it beyond the reach of any one city. The stuff we've done so far, however, isn't complicated: Get young people downtown — and get them a drink. missionlocal.org/2025/04/sf-p... From @esksf.bsky.social

San Francisco will no longer allow the distribution of safe drug-use supplies, unless the outfits distributing them offer counseling services or connections to care. Will it help — or make things even worse? via @esksf.bsky.social @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/04/san-...

Forty arrests. Zero charges filed. This SFPD drug raid was a dud. But not on social media. From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/sf-p...

NEW: The San Francisco District Attorney's Office isn't charging any of the ~40 people arrested or cited in a pre-dawn raid last week at Market and Van Ness. by @miss-elenius.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/sf-p...

Despite years of corruption scandals & the removal of eight top officials, San Francisco's ethics guardrails remain weak & ineffectual, a new city report found. Potential conflicts of interest, the report found, need more oversight. by @xueerlu.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/sf-c...

Bus driver Mc Allen wants ‘Transit Operator Day’ to be more than a busman’s holiday. So he is setting a big goal: He wants riders to make 550,000 trips and submit 500 operator commendations on Tuesday. via @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/this...

SFPD officers this weekend got department-wide emails w/an ask: Come work at 16th & Mission, & keep the mobile command center from being defaced. “Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to keep the van safe, free from vandalism." by @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/sfpd...

JUST IN: Waymo won the right to "map" SFO for future pick-ups & drop-offs after striking a deal w/San Francisco. SFO is the crown jewel in Waymo's Bay Area expansion, & permit came w/agreement not to engage in deliveries. by @esksf.bsky.social @jrivanob.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/s-f-...

San Francisco Transit Operator Day is this Tuesday. Ride Muni! Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your neighbors friends. And read this article in Mission Local: missionlocal.org/2025/03/this...

This article came about because @esksf.bsky.social happened to board my 44 O’Shaughnessy and without knowing who he was I basically ended up pitching a story for Operator Day by accident!

JUST IN: Prop. K foes announced they will sue San Francisco and its Board of Supervisors over the closure of Great Highway. Their suit will attempt to nullify the measure ok'd by nearly 55% of San Franciscans to close the oceanside roadway by @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop...

Weaponized turds: San Francisco's strange and terrible victory over the EPA. From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/03/weap...

The $1.95B Central Subway shut down last week. Did anybody really notice? More than coming in years late and hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, *that* is the real tragedy. From @esksf.bsky.social t.co/Zj46JvZ7f6

On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted to remove Max Carter-Oberstone from the police commission, in a 2-9 vote. Supervisors Melgar and Fielder voted against the motion. via @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/02/supe...

Max Carter-Oberstone, the reformist police commissioner targeted for removal by Mayor Daniel Lurie, is going to lose today's board vote. He knows it, too: "The votes are not looking good. I don’t think I’m going to survive it.” Here's why. via @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/02/max-...

Curtis Kimball, who became known for selling $3 crême brûlées from a cart in 2009, and later for serving up free pancakes, died on Feb. 19. “He brought people together—one brûlée, one pancake, and one laugh at a time,” Kimball’s kin wrote. missionlocal.org/2025/02/sf-c...

On Valentine’s Day in 1980, Insook and Kwangduk Kim, a young Korean couple, sold their first bouquet of flowers. 45 years later, they’ll sell their last — but their Balboa Green Garden Florist will continue on with new owners. by @junyao-yang.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/02/balb...

Supervisor Joel Engardio got on the wrong side of 64% of his district's voters with his measure to close Great Highway to cars. Facing a recall attempt, he should probably stop talking about his measure to close Great Highway to cars. missionlocal.org/2025/02/joel... From @esksf.bsky.social

Once again, San Francisco's response to an intractable problem has been "Let's get a tent!" And what should they do with the tent? *Everything.* This week's column: missionlocal.org/2025/02/san-...

I wrote about the Bay Area's rowdiest late-night Filipino meat skewer spot—The Grill by Miss G, in Hayward. Among other highlights, it's where I took down my first balut! www.kqed.org/arts/1397153...

Sorry about the erroneous link before. San Francisco's police staffing is at historic lows. So is its crime rate. From me and @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/02/san-...

San Francisco's police staffing is at a historic low. But so is its crime rate. Me with @kellywaldron.bsky.social x.com/lbfarrell/st...

San Francisco has an $876M general fund deficit. It instituted a "hiring freeze." It affects non general fund departments, which don't affect that $876M deficit. Hiring at those departments, a monthslong process, has been upended. Why? via @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/01/city...

San Francisco's citywide hiring freeze is neither citywide nor a hiring freeze. Talk amongst yourselves. missionlocal.org/2025/01/city...

Really enjoyed working with Tom at @defector.bsky.social on this one. bonus special treat/surprise: the illo from @mattielubchansky.com, whose work I’ve always admired! The Navy researcher who wondered if the 49ers would survive nuclear war: defector.com/the-naval-sc...

Today in MinnPost: I, like many of you, wonder why bathrooms downtown are hard to find, and visited my hometown of San Francisco and spoke with representatives from Winnipeg about how they addressed downtown bathroom access www.minnpost.com/metro/2025/0...

The San Francisco Chronicle asked me to write an essay about losing my home in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire and what people in LA can expect. "There are few things as shocking as watching your home burn down," it begins. #palisadesfire

On the campaign trail, San Francisco's new mayor, Daniel Lurie, pledged he'd declare a fentanyl state of emergency. It turns out he can't do that. So, he's branding his plan the "fentanyl state of emergency." missionlocal.org/2025/01/fent...

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