Category: San Francisco

What if San Francisco Does Not Recover?

San Francisco looks worse now than I’ve ever seen it. Like any major city, San Francisco had bad areas before 2020—those rough areas you knew to avoid—but you could go anywhere else, basically unmolested. Today is something entirely different. The streets are dirty. Homeless encampments, trash, and excrement can be found all over. Car break-ins…


San Francisco Nostalgia: Video Artist Colorizes, Restores Vintage 1940s Black-and-White Footage of Frisco Bay

A deep-seated nostalgia resides in San Francisco—that foggy city by the bay, whose enigmatic charm, hilly streets, and welcoming wharf never fail to captivate visitors. Less so today, perhaps. But still. Strolling the streets leisurely, one is greeted by gorgeously vintage, stepped Victorian rows, crested with ornate trim and balusters, displaying old-time, bygone elegance. Lost in…


The SFPD Is Dying and No One Seems to Care

Commentary It’s beyond time to start asking some very hard questions and demanding some actual answers, not crafted talking points, about the San Francisco Police Department’s problems. It’s no secret that the past few years have not been kind to policing across the United States. Retention of qualified officers has been a real issue for…


Progressive Prosecutors Ramping Up Criminal Charges Against Police

Chief prosecutors in Austin, San Francisco, and Chicago, doubled down on criminal prosecutions of law enforcement officials in the past year-and-a-half since the George Floyd protests. All three were elected on a progressive platform to ease up on criminal punishment, especially on low-level crimes, while getting tougher on police to root out what they called…


How San Francisco Extorts Contractors | Matt Gonzalez

San Francisco recently had a corruption case that highlights how much power city officials have over contracts. My guest is Matt Gonzalez, former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He explains the types of schemes playing out in the city government and what needs to change for there to be fair treatment of…


San Francisco Mayor Says Recalled School Board Members Failed to Do Their Fundamental Job

Responding to the recall in which voters decisively ejected three members from the San Francisco Board of Education, Mayor London Breed acknowledged that the school board has failed to do its most basic job, which is to educate children. “It was really about the frustration of the Board of Education doing their fundamental job, and…


Coast-to-Coast Parents Reject Progressive Agenda in Schools; NY Sued for Medical Racism

In liberal San Francisco this week, three far-left school board members were voted out of a job in a landslide recall election. Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute describes the growing backlash against the progressive take-over of schools boards and teachers’ unions. Then, in America Q&A we ask people across the country…


What the Mainstream Media Won’t Report About the San Francisco Election

Commentary This week, San Francisco celebrates the decisive victory of the school board recall, which we predicted in our Feb. 8 column published in The Epoch Times. Many commentators, activists, and establishment politicians believed this election could not possibly be so clear-cut in a city like San Francisco, or had dismissed the recall as a…


San Francisco School Revolt

Commentary Mess with people’s kids and you’re in a world of hurt. That message is spreading all over the country. It was a key to the victory of Gov. Glenn Youngkin last November in Virginia. It’s even happening in San Francisco, where this week voters recalled three left-wing members of the school board, Alison Collins,…


San Francisco School Board President Blames ‘White Supremacists’ for Recall Defeat

Following an overwhelming defeat in this week’s recall battle, the president of San Francisco Board of Education claimed that her ouster was the consequence of “fighting for racial justice,” and that those who voted “yes” are aligned with “white supremacists.” None of the three board members challenged in the recall won support to continue in…