Category: San Francisco

New Census Data Shows Significant Population Decline in California’s Urban Areas

LOS ANGELES—While thousands of Californians have been fleeing the state for the lower cost of living found in other states, others are leaving large cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles to the quieter suburbs found in the Inland Empire. San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, adjacent to the state’s coastal towns, have seen an…


Dinner and a Show: San Francisco Edition

Last Saturday my wife and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. We decided to go to an old-school San Francisco landmark, John’s Grill. We were fortunate enough to get a little more than just dinner. We got the San Francisco version of “Dinner and a Show.” Established in 1908, John’s Grill is famous for serving…


San Francisco Officers Pulled Over a Driverless GM Cruise

General Motors Co.-owned, self-driving taxi service Cruise’s unusual pit stop on a San Francisco street last week left onlookers in splits. What Happened A driverless Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt was pulled over by San Francisco traffic police officers. The vehicle complied, made the stop, and then zipped to a safer spot ahead of the traffic lights with the police following…


San Francisco Is Choosing to Inflict Moral Injury on Its Cops

Commentary The staggering loss of police officers in San Francisco has been reported more and more often recently, including by me. Estimates from the department itself say the SFPD is at least 500 officers short. About a year ago, a high-ranking member said that going below the threshold of 1,016 full-duty sworn officers on patrol…


San Francisco in 2024

Before the world changed with the onset of COVID-19, San Francisco was dealing with real problems, like throwing widely used terms “down the memory hole.” This was done, and continues today, in order to create and control a new alternate reality that desperately tries to conceal the failings of progressive political policies. “Don’t you see…


California Republicans Push Back Against Progressive Homeless Policies

SACRAMENTO— A group of Republican lawmakers introduced more than a dozen bills to combat California’s worsening homeless crisis March 16, a problem they say the state’s Democrats have inadequately addressed as billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent and the homeless population continues to grow. Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (R-Yuba City), Assemblywoman Suzette Martinez…


San Francisco Mayor’s “Welcome Back to SF Pledge” Needs More Substance

Commentary On March 3, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the “Welcome Back to SF pledge”—a commitment by large private employers to return their workforce to offices in several areas of the city by the end of March. When we first heard about this, we thought, “Terrific!” and pored over the press coverage for the…


How ‘Bad Actors’ in San Francisco City Hall Extort Contractors: Former Supervisor

Some city officials in San Francisco are extorting contractors for money by threatening their jobs, says a former San Francisco Supervisor. This comes during a federal investigation into the city’s high-ranking public officials, in which the city’s former director of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru, admitted in January to receiving bribes from multiple contractors in exchange…


San Francisco Homeowners, Beware

Commentary Dean Preston, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, has set the wheels in motion to put a residential vacancy tax on the November ballot. His proposed “Empty Homes Tax” is a direct threat to one of the fundamental tenets of our American way of life: the concept of private property. What’s…


Woke San Francisco School Board Members Ousted for Putting Progressive Politics Over Education | Larry Elder

Larry Elder is a big advocate for school choice because “government schools” don’t always have the best reputation, especially in California. For example, three school board members in San Francisco were recently recalled by a huge percentage of the public after spending a lot of taxpayers’ time and money on things such as planning to…