Where's London!? well: sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/m...

Cratered. Decimated. Tanked. Whatever word you use, the reality is the same. San Francisco’s budget is screwed. Here's why: sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/s...

Good news for "anyone who’s ever stepped in something awful on a sidewalk." One thing Lurie won’t cut in his budget? Street cleaning / ✍️ by @fitzthereporter.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/s...

BREAKING: Engardio to face recall election. By @lihanlihan.bsky.social: sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/j...

My latest on the guy at the end of the Warriors' bench you didn't know, but should. He's the 39 y/o chairman of one of the most powerful San Francisco real estate dynasties ever now on the brink: The Shorensteins. 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/05/27/b...

SF schools cancel 151 layoffs in major win for teachers’ union

NEW: The San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that it will rescind a large number of planned layoffs and expand teacher hiring — a major victory for the teachers union. by @lihanlihan.bsky.social: sfstandard.com/2025/05/16/s...

For the first time in more than a decade, the San Francisco public defender’s office is so overloaded with cases that it has closed up shop. The office will decline new clients on one business day each week. Here's what it means for fentanyl cases: sfstandard.com/2025/05/09/p...

BART service suspended systemwide

Surprise, surprise -- one of the first major donors to Mayor Daniel Lurie's 1,500 shelter bed plan are ... drum roll please ... Tipping Point Community. Shocking, I know. But there are more: sfstandard.com/2025/05/08/l...

Urban Alchemy transformed the Tenderloin but its reign was set to end in July. Now SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is renewing the nonprofit's contract, The Standard has learned. Here's what that means for the future: sfstandard.com/2025/05/07/u...

SF DA Brooke Jenkins' Office may cut 25 prosecutors -- even those trying fentanyl-related cases -- under proposed budget from Mayor Daniel Lurie. We obtained the memo that outlines just how deep the cuts could go: sfstandard.com/2025/05/05/b...

Sunday is for KEXP on the boom box, lounging in the sun @obsoletesony.com

SF supervisors scoffed overtime $ for SFPD after a blistering report claimed cops called out sick when working private security gigs. “Bottom line, police officers need to work for San Franciscans, not for private entities,” said supervisor @jackiefielder.bsky.social more:

V excited for SPJ's upcoming conference this weekend, aptly themed reporting in hostile times. I'll be on the immigration reporting panel with a great group of journalists - join us if you'll be there!

Just re-upping this link to the SPJ NorCal Region 11 Conference! It's this FRIDAY and SATURDAY! Spread the word please, California journos. We've got a ton of workshops from AI to immigration reporting. spjnorcal.org/conference

Pelosi calls on Airbnb to drop pricey lawsuit against SF, pushing Lurie to join the fight

Mayor Lurie has made luring companies back to San Francisco a core tenet. What happens when some of the largest corporations are suing the city to challenge their tax bills during Covid? It's an uncomfortable and all too real dilemma @fitzthereporter.bsky.social 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/04/24/n...

CALIFORNIA JOURNOS! The Society of Professional Journalists NorCal chapter is hosting a huge dang journalist conference right here in San Francisco. 2 days. 17 workshops. 50+ panelists. Workshops on: AI, diversity, investigative tips, book writing, more! SIGN UP: spjnorcal.org/conference/

Introducing The SF100: The Standard’s highly subjective, surely divisive list of who holds power, influence, and attention in San Francisco in 2025. The staff of the Standard spent months figuring out who runs this place and whittled it down to 100. See the list: sfstandard.com/sf-100/

NEW: After city department heads failed or refused to make cuts, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is wresting the budget from their hands. “Unfortunately, reductions proposed by departments to date have been insufficient to close the deficit, and there is no additional time,” said the budget director.

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...

Parklets in SF peaked, then died off. A new model inspired by Lego aims for a revival sfstandard.com/2025/04/16/n...

NEW: San Franciscans will soon have carte blanche to peek at every “OMG,” “np!” or “:P” from the city’s highest government office. Following inquiries from The Standard, Mayor Daniel Lurie has flipped: He’ll now let you read his text messages. sfstandard.com/2025/04/15/d...

April 18 will be SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's 100th day in office. @sfstandard.com has a bevy of coverage on what he's done (or tried to do) for San Francisco: First off, some news analysis from me: "Daniel Lurie has started pissing people off — and he’s OK with that" sfstandard.com/2025/04/14/d...

going old school for the morning Muni work commute lookin' out @obsoletesony.bsky.social and @kexp.bsky.social !

Saw this darn billboard and nearly blew a gasket. Thanks to my colleague @ryajetha.bsky.social for digging into the story behind it. As expected, the folks behind the advertisements are raising millions off the viral outrage:

It's the Dream Keeper scandal's collateral damage. The city wrote letters to more than a dozen organizations informing them they would no longer be awarded a collective $10.6 million because the process was "tainted." They weren't accused, but they're losing out all the same:

You can request copies of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's texts to the director of the city's Public Works department from Public Works. But if you ask the mayor's office? They don't exist. Here's why that's concerning open government advocates: sfstandard.com/2025/04/02/d...

Must-read comprehensive look at AI's growing impact on Bay Area tech jobs from @ryajetha.bsky.social and @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social. And they've got the doom and gloom stats:

Not really surprised by this piece from @fitzthereporter.bsky.social. When I worked for a federal archive, I had to be familiar with an entire book of records retention policies, and it’s always confounded me that the City has nothing remotely comparable

Hell of a scoop by my SF Standard colleague @adamlashinsky.bsky.social: Exclusive: Inside Lurie’s $100M plan to get private donors to pay for homeless beds

Dream Keeper is back. The program will hit the reset button, accepting new proposals from nonprofit groups to obtain funding, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Friday morning.

If you’re a Muni rider heading downtown, you may have to hoof it — or hop another bus — to get to your final destination. In lieu of cutting bus lines across the city, the SFMTA board directed staff in a 3-2 vote to shorten routes for buses headed downtown. More details:

A lot more protest sign creativity than I usually see, at this rally to save Muni funding at San Francisco City Hall this morning ... "Don't DOGE Muni" elicited a lot of "right ons"

NEW: "After years of negotiations, Waymo has been granted access to map the roads of San Francisco International Airport, a move that could eventually transform transportation to and from one of California’s busiest airports."

News from @sfstandard.com: SF mayor Daniel Lurie taps Lauren Powell Jobs and Google's Ruth Porat to co-chair a CEO supergroup to advise him on policy. Members include Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, Richard Dickson (Gap), Michelle Gass (Levi Strauss), Tony Xu, and 20 others. sfstandard.com/2025/03/17/l...

SCOOP via @adamlashinsky.bsky.social: "Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration has been quietly recruiting a murderer’s row of Silicon Valley and Wall Street luminaries to lead a pair of initiatives meant to revitalize San Francisco’s hollowed-out downtown and moribund economy, according to sources."

San Francisco's Mayor taps Laurene Powell Jobs, Google’s Ruth Porat to lead supergroup of CEO advisers sfstandard.com/2025/03/17/l...

Sixth Street is cleaner than ever. After an increase in drug arrests in recent months, more than 200 of which took place on Sixth, most of the regulars were absent. Where did they go? You don’t have to look far to find one explanation: They’re in the Mission. More:

The SF Standard is hiring a data graphics reporter, a deputy politics editor, a social media editor, and an enterprise reporter: jobs.sfstandard.com 🚨 Feel free to DM me with any Qs about workin' here! #journalismjobs

Think San Francisco’s streets are nasty now? Thanks to budget woes, they may get even nastier. The department in charge of scrubbing excrement off sidewalks and sweeping litter out of gutters could reduce its services, according to an initial city budget proposal. more:

I'm sure this will be a non-controversial discussion that will leave everyone completely happy! Please join @lihanlihan.bsky.social and I for our discussion with Supervisor @joelengardio.bsky.social today at noon! Join in and suggest questions for us to ask Engardio, live:

“Holy fucking shit,” said Liza Murawski, co-chair of the city’s Behavioral Health Commission, when told of Tsai’s role at McKinsey. “Why would he be the director?" SF’s new public health chief marketed opioids for consulting firm:

SFPD and the sheriff have both already over spent their overtime budgets for the fiscal year, according to a new report. This comes after a damning report on abuses of SFPD's overtime. sfstandard.com/2024/12/12/s...

NEW: Dream Keeper program to come back, rebranded, funding new programs, with new support systems. “Funds allocated to the African American community are critical to the stabilization of our neighborhoods," SF Mayor Daniel Lurie told Black community leaders. sfstandard.com/2025/02/10/s...

Roughly 2,800 miles away in Hernando County, Florida, his mother, Mildred Batka, hasn’t heard from him in more than a year. In her backyard, she keeps a trailer with a bed inside — just in case he returns home one day. “Is he eating?” Mildred asked The Standard by phone.

An absolutely killer story from @joshkoehn.bsky.social on San Francisco's seismic post-election power shift. A must-read for anyone who wants a glimpse at who is deciding SF's future. Who does, and who doesn't, have Mayor Daniel Lurie's ear? sfstandard.com/2025/02/06/s...

Four desks crowd the small second-floor office with one window and a view of passing traffic. It looks like any small business or nonprofit. Since President Trump’s inauguration, it has been filled with drama, fear, anger, and most of all, confusion: sfstandard.com/2025/02/05/i...

New triage center for drug users coming to Sixth Street in SF. The idea is to free up beat cops by having a jail transport van for dealers and users who get arrested, while also providing services to drug users who want to get clean. details: sfstandard.com/2025/02/04/s...