Steve Boland

A powerful Wine Country family is trying to kill the SMART train with a book This book makes the case that taxpayer support should end for a 48-mile long passenger rail system connecting the Bay Area’s fifth largest city with small cities and towns across two counties.

I for one support rich idiots setting their money on fire www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

A drone hit the Burj Al Arab. The other thing Americans don’t understand is internal politics w/in the Middle East. We have no idea what we’re getting into here. Trump certainly doesn’t

I don’t think most Americans understand just how weird stuff is going to get if the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai Airport and the Red Sea are all unavailable or unreliable for global commerce. The Middle East is a massive crossroads

I mean, this is basically what they do on the southern lines now by calling out OAK

AFAIK Obama hasn’t released a statement yet, but here’s what I’ll say: The Obama deal was working, and Trump pulled out of it bc he didn’t like Obama. So anything bad that happens from this point forward (or already? 40 dead kids?) is bc of, well, that

Trump says he's not mulling a draft executive order to seize control over elections. Here’s what we know The 17-page proposal, a working document reviewed in full by PBS News, would give him extraordinary power over the 2026 midterm elections.

As I was saying www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Spoiler alert

Also check out the, like, 20 episodes the Rest Is History podcast have done on the rise of the Nazis. You may not think Republicans are fascists in the classic sense ... but if you don't think Trump would just *love* to cancel elections, you don't know your history

YouTube video by Johnny Harris Is Fascism Back?

I've been listening to, watching and reading a lot lately about the rise of Nazism and fascism, and the thing that strikes me is the boiling frog quality of it all -- how they creep up on you. MAGA may not be fascist yet, but they're clearly on that path www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8K...

Watch, they’re going to give NoHo-Pasadena “BRT” a letter designation

As a former resident of The Crescent …Koreatown is at one end of the extension

Or maybe just don’t require elevators on every car?

Yeah, the people calling for Ian Choudri’s resignation don’t actually care about that

Teenage boys are the absolute worst demographic in the world. But they can grow into wonderful people (I say this as the father of a 5yo boy … fingers crossed).

Speeding we can do something about beyond “education” or nonexistent enforcement, the rest, good luck

Artists are the shock troops of gentrification, part eleventy thousand (PS Love my artist friends)

Redwood trees in Oakland

A thing that I think Oaklanders take for granted is that the greatest species of tree in the world is right in our midst, just right down there on the corner

The other thing about Cubic is that when I called customer service a few weeks ago, I was on hold for an hour and a half — twice! (Finally gave up the first time.)

Same

Beautiful though

No, just getting our existing signs up everywhere

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Interesting that they’re not actually disputing anything

People who want transit to be a niche thing in service of their ideology really, really piss me off

In case you were wondering (I was!), Quentin Kopp is now 97 years old

Looks like The Machine is for someone

Every hockey game should just be Heated Rivalry

As I was saying!

Every hockey game should be USA-Canada for the gold

There’s been a huge surge in S.F. traffic tickets — and police aren’t the reason Though San Francisco’s speed cameras only began issuing fines in the final five months of 2025, they brought traffic tickets issued in the city to levels not seen in more than a decade.

“An initial study by SFMTA had auspicious findings. At 15 of the camera locations, the agency found that instances of speeding dropped by 72% after cameras were installed.”

Thanks to speed cameras, scofflaws are changing their reckless ways.