“They’re inspiring and have also just been very supportive of me,” Mumby said. “This is my way of giving back to them.”

People We Meet: Barbara Mumby paints a tribute

The muralist

“You’re going to have a hard time with your payroll, and the services of your organization,” Lerman said. “I mean, if you’re not being paid for three months, you can imagine that kind of impact that has.”

More than 30 nonprofits allege SF is delaying their funding

Two unions — the San Francisco teachers’ union and the union for school staff — are readying for possible strikes as soon as October, following months of stalled contract negotiations […]

SF teachers, school staff gear up for strikes after stalled negotiations  

Yes, we’re open

San Francisco is considering reviving its “patrol special” squad, a for-hire private security service enshrined in the city charter and with roots stretching back to the Gold Rush-era.  Patrol specials […]

SF considers reviving private police force

Stage Werx, the Mission’s 12-year-old independent theater on Valencia Street, will be closing early next month as its current owner and operator retires.  However, the new tenants of the performance […]

Stage Werx closing, but space will remain a theater

“Our hearts go out to this man’s loved ones and community,” Medeiros said.  “We grieve for yet another life lost so senselessly on our streets.” 

Pedestrian struck on Valencia Street dies

The films are short: Three minutes about a nine-year-old girl navigating chess and friendship, four minutes about a music-loving dog, a spotlight on the sensuality of pole dancing.  In more […]

Meet humans of SoMa in new short films

Fall colors

San Francisco police commissioners grilled top police staff about the department’s auditing process on Wednesday night, after a recent report suggested some police officers may be misreporting race data in […]

SFPD grilled over alleged fraudulent racial data reporting 

Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said publicly today that San Francisco has proved to be “one of the most challenging markets in the country” and that the company is “influenced heavily […]

Cruise CEO calls SF ‘challenging,’ says city should be ‘rolling out the red carpet’

“He couldn’t get up on his own,” said Maritza Rocha Alvarez, the bar manager of Yellow Moto Pizzeria. “He was conscious, but clearly in pain.” 

SUV strikes, hospitalizes Valencia Street pedestrian

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, appointed to the top prosecutor role last year, has in her first 15 months raised the city’s conviction rate for the first time in […]

SF DA Brooke Jenkins reverses eight-year decline in convictions

Data show that those most at-risk of dying in an overdose are not the same people who use treatment centers most often.

Drug policy desperately needs data, NY doc says

Blue crane

San Francisco’s task force on Black reparations this afternoon presented its final recommendations on how the city can alleviate the harms of anti-Black racism, including the possibility of $5 million […]

SF supervisors support reparations plan — but cash payments face hurdles

Management at the LightHouse, a nonprofit for the blind and visually impaired, has refused to voluntarily recognize their workers’ nascent union following news earlier this month that the majority of […]

LightHouse workers’ union faces pushback from management

Since they were installed on four intersections of Capp Street in May, the steel bollards intended to deter sex work on this street have been struggling to stay erect.  Now, […]

Capp Street barriers collapsed, unsightly — but effective

Growing up as an angry teenager in the 1970s, guitarist David James wanted nothing to do with his father, a troubled man who’d turned himself into a Mission District crusader.  […]

The return of a Mission rebel, set to music