Is the Port of San Francisco trying to put an 80-year-old crab company out of business?
The Alioto-Lazio Fish Company, opened in the 1940s on San Francisco’s iconic Fisherman’s Wharf, is the last of five fishing businesses started by Tom Lazio. […]
Cover Stories
In the wake of a killing
Sentayo was just 6 years old when her mother died of starvation, but she had no time to grieve. She took her infant sister, Hoptami, […]
All in the City Family: Dennis Herrera chosen to head SFPUC
Much has changed since I exposed the blatant pay-to-play scheme at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission disguised as a social impact program (“Friends with […]
Cronyism is still alive and well at City Hall
The Booker T. Washington Community Service Center was created under the name Victory Club during World War I as a gathering spot for Black soldiers. […]
Six podcasts, four trials, and a blog
And this is where Balko announces he’s found the villain in this attack. No, not the attackers. Not the SF legal system, which still seems […]
Two overdoses in 10 minutes
As long as we have people who are addicted to drugs, who are willing to destroy their own bodies and their own lives, no amount […]
Why colleagues say District Attorney Chesa Boudin must go
On January 9, 2015, four men were shot and killed inside a car in the Lower Haight near Laguna and Page streets. Police eventually arrested […]
Virtue signaling on Hypocrite Hill
In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. — Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897 By now everyone […]
Chesa Boudin by the numbers
When Troy McAlister ran a red light in a stolen car that struck and killed 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-year-old Hanako Abe on Dec. 31, […]
Emma, Ronisha, and Latanette
“Basically, they’re saying my daughter was nothing, she wasn’t worth anything anyway. And that’s just not true and I get so angry about that.” — […]