Exciting news: I've joined @politico.com to cover the CA energy and environment beat. Are you working on these issues? Give me a shout. I'd love to hear what story lines you think I should cover. www.politico.com/blogs/politi...

How an SF nonprofit for the blind squandered a $125 million windfall ➡️ sfstandard.com/2025/07/17/l... "LightHouse’s optimism outstripped its resources: More money, more problems."

A decade ago, a mysterious $125M gift transformed the SF LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Now, layoffs, protests, and real estate losses leave it fighting to survive. My deep dive into the saga at this keystone nonprofit on @sfstandard.com: sfstandard.com/2025/07/17/l...

As of the end of December, San Francisco was not quite 9% of the way to meeting its January 2031 Housing Element goal of authorizing more than 82,000 units for construction — putting it far off pace and behind most cities in the region. 📝 @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/04/25/s...

In SF’s Asian American neighborhoods, Democrats face a reputation crisis

I analyzed NIH data to see the local impact of the Trump admin's directive to cut biomedical research funding. If it had come last year, federal funding for Bay Area education institutions would have been cut by $282M. ⬇️ with Jenn Wadsworth @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/02/14/t...

Trump’s now-rescinded funding freeze and executive orders have left Bay Area nonprofits scrambling and confused, with executives’ time consumed by tracking fast-moving news alerts to stay ahead of the president’s next shot at the sector. ⬇️ @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/02/10/t...

Read this. Think of the countless families that have fought on behalf of loved ones gripped by addiction. Even in the darkest days, there may be moments of grace. By Astrid Kane, who could not have possibly written any better than this: sfstandard.com/2025/01/29/s...

Officials held up car registrations millions of times over unpaid bridge tolls

If you don't pay your toll, authorities will lock down your vehicle registration until you pay up. They did this 6.1 million times from fall 2023 to 2024, frustrating fine recipients and illustrating how cash strapped bridge authorities are. @sfstandard.com ⬇️ sfstandard.com/2025/01/27/b...

More than 65K San Franciscans will lose their neighborhoods' only pharmacy after upcoming closures. San Francisco will have lost nearly 40% of its licensed pharmacies over a decade, my analysis found for @sfstandard.com. Story with Garrett Leahy & Beki San Martin ⬇️ sfstandard.com/2025/01/23/s...

Sit with this story. My colleagues @allaboutgeorge.com, Noah Baustin and David Sjostedt along with NYT, on how displacement, poverty, the war on drugs, and fentanyl led to the loss of nearly an entire generation of Black men. sfstandard.com/2024/12/20/s...

Black men born from 1951 to 1970 have represented 12% of all overdose deaths in SF in the past four years, but are less than 1% of the population. That makes them 32 times more likely to die of an overdose than the average American. @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2024/12/20/s...

This investigation was in partnership with The Baltimore Banner, Big Local News and nine other newsrooms across the country. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...

Lydia Tonozzi says she was struck by an SFMTA vehicle, injuring her so severely she spent months in a nursing facility. She's just one of numerous people who have landed in the hospital after being struck by a driving SF worker on the job recently. @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2024/12/18/c...

Earnest alert: Geoffrey Frye is the most arrested homeless person since San Francisco’s crackdown started this year. He and his mom’s heartbreaking story is a microcosm of the crisis that keeps people on the city’s streets. sfstandard.com/2024/11/21/h...