San Francisco's June 2026 ballot will ask voters to approve an "Overpaid CEO Tax" that critics say is structured to exempt major tech companies while hitting grocery stores and pharmacies with an 800% rate hike. Meanwhile, the school board just voted 6-1 to adopt a new ethnic studies curriculum through a review process that had no defined passing threshold — and a legal challenge was filed the same night. From a transit agency that promised 465 affordable housing units it never had funding for, to enrollment data showing California losing students faster than any other large state, the city's institutions keep making commitments they can't keep.
Antoine Watson slammed into an 84-year-old man, left him dying on the pavement, and fled. Five years later, the system hands him the exit door.
BART's 2025 crime collapse confirms what NYC learned in 1990: fare enforcement isn't about the fare. It's about who's riding your system.
The moderate majority is real but an 11% fringe is hijacking primaries. But not in San Francisco. Here's why.
An Asian American man was stabbed in broad daylight two days before Lunar New Year. The mayor's bodyguards got press coverage. He got bystanders who kept walking.
SF's 540-page city charter is the longest in the country, and it was built to protect insiders. Lurie is finally tearing it apart.
Now a civil rights lawsuit names the officials who told parole agents to look the other way.
A woman tears down his flyers in the Richmond. On camera. Then explains it isn't racist. This is what erasure looks like in real time.
They are accused of harvesting grandma's ballot, pocket $777K salaries, and wield incredible political power in San Francisco. All on your tax dollars.
Drug arrests collapsed to zero. Overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year. The data is in, and so is the body count.
DC had 52 traffic deaths last year. Waymo cuts pedestrian injuries by 92%. A mayoral candidate says the city "isn't ready."