Opinion | Why do SF supervisors ‘suck at governing’? Here’s a prime example A board fight over outmoded contracting rules and a powerless citizen’s panel shows the city can’t break its old, bad habits.

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Opinion | The missing details of Daniel Lurie's homelessness pivot I asked the mayor's homeless czar to explain what success for their new plan looks like. His answer: We’ll know it when we see it.

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Opinion | Lurie mum on Trump. Good! It’d be more fun if Lurie teed off on Trump. But not better for San Francisco.

Opinion: Daniel Lurie is taking exactly the right approach to Trump sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Solid approach to business taxes in SF Think business taxes are boring? You’re not wrong. But they’re important.

Opinion: Can tax-code tweaks keep businesses from fleeing SF? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | By caving to labor, Daniel Lurie fails his first big test as mayor He avoided angering the city's powerful unions by blunting the budget axe. But he may have missed a golden political opportunity.

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Opinion | Daniel Lurie’s bad-answers-only budget - The San Francisco Standard Does he squander goodwill with necessary cuts? Or kick the can down the road with accounting trickery? Either way, budget season may end in tears.

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Opinion | These supervisors have a good idea to fight homelessness. The mayor should reject it anyway A bill by Bilal Mahmood and Shamann Walton seeks to spread the pain all over the city. Daniel Lurie wants to gut it — for good reason.

Opinion: These supervisors have a good idea to fight homelessness. The mayor should reject it anyway sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | The Nordstrom follies: How bad laws and whiny neighbors are slowing SF's comeback Opposition might keep a prime retail space from being filled. It's another example of the city's out-of-control kvetchocracy.

Opinion: The Nordstrom follies: How bad laws and whiny neighbors are slowing SF’s comeback sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Are school closings back on the table? Maria Su is ready for the conversation A sit-down with the SFUSD superintendent as she passes the six-month mark of her nearly-impossible job.

Opinion: Are school closings back on the table? Maria Su is ready for the conversation sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Daniel Lurie's corporate 'partners' need to get serious, put butts in seats The mayor is cajoling reluctant city workers back to their municipal cubicles. Now he needs to push his friends in the corporate world to do the same.

I don't think anyone would disagree that getting the biggest employers in SF to return to the office more days a week is necessary for downtown revitalization.
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Opinion | If Steve Hilton wants to be California governor, he should ditch the MAGA baggage - The San Francisco Standard The Fox News host will need to appeal to a much wider base if he wants to pull a Schwarzenegger. So far, he's doing the opposite.

My latest column in The San Francisco Standard

If Steve Hilton wants to be California governor, he should ditch the MAGA baggage sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | 100 days in, Daniel Lurie is still enjoying his honeymoon. Can he keep it going? An early-term assessment of the political neophyte who's shown an uncanny instinct for being a politician.

Opinion: 100 days in, Daniel Lurie is still enjoying his honeymoon. Can he keep it going? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | SF lawyer John Keker fights back against MAGA intimidation He loves literature and Napoleon. President Trump? Not so much. A litigator makes his case for why lawyers must stand up for each other.

Opinion: ‘Truly disgusted’: SF legal legend on Trump — and the law firms caving to him sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Exclusive: Inside Lurie’s $100M plan to get private donors to pay for homeless beds - The San Francisco Standard The mayor is rolling out another plan that asks San Francisco's rich to pony up for its poor.

My latest column.
Opinion: Exclusive: Inside Lurie’s $100M plan to get private donors to pay for homeless beds sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Can a shiny squad of CEOs really help SF get its groove back? Mayor Daniel Lurie has shown he can convene the city's richest and most powerful. Now what will they do with that access?

Opinion: Can a shiny squad of CEOs really help SF get its groove back? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Daniel Lurie is getting budget-rolled by his own bureaucrats How can so many departments reject the mayor's demand for budget cuts? It's all part of the typical City Family playbook.

Opinion: Daniel Lurie is getting budget-rolled by his own bureaucrats sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Damn, Daniel: Lurie is getting the hang of being mayor, one sly move at a time For an inexperienced politician, the mayor has shown a surprising skill for consolidating power and winning over adversaries.

Opinion: Damn, Daniel: Lurie is getting the hang of being mayor, one sly move at a time sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Why do so few SFPD recruits become cops? An awful attrition rate in the latest academy has some asking if changes are needed to fill the ranks.

Outstanding reporting
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The secret to Lurie’s fentanyl legislation success? Talking The negotiation with the Board of Supervisors was an early test of the mayor's leadership.

The secret to Lurie’s fentanyl legislation success? Talking sfstandard.com/2025/01/29/d...

Opinion | Daniel Lurie's 'plan' to fix downtown is off to a vague start The mayor ran for office on a theme of governmental accountability and was quick to point the finger at City Hall whenever bad news broke. Guess who's accountable now?

Opinion: Daniel Lurie’s ‘plan’ to fix downtown is off to a vague start sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

100 arrests, no progress: How Sixth Street is bedeviling Lurie Police have made more drug arrests on this three-block stretch than anywhere else in the city but conditions remain dire.

100 arrests, no progress: How Sixth Street is bedeviling Lurie sfstandard.com/2025/01/27/p...

Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules? An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties.

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Chaos skyrockets at homeless shelters as Lurie plans expansion

Pharmageddon: Walgreens to shutter 12 San Francisco stores Among the stores closing in late February are known theft hotspots and the store where Banko Brown was fatally shot in 2023.

Pharmageddon: Walgreens to shutter 12 San Francisco stores sfstandard.com/2025/01/08/w...

Woman struck by firecracker bleeds outside Lurie's inauguration banquet A woman was injured by a firecracker Wednesday outside Daniel Lurie’s inauguration banquet in Chinatown.

Woman struck by firecracker bleeds profusely outside Lurie’s inauguration banquet sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...

Opinion | Daniel Lurie speaks softly but carries a big political mandate - The San Francisco Standard In his inaugural address, San Francisco's new mayor showed his oratorical weakness. But he still brought some heat.

Opinion: Daniel Lurie speaks softly, but carries a big political mandate sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Can Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s New Major, Make the City Shine Again? Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, will soon take the helm of the liberal mecca. “Resistance” to Donald Trump isn’t on his agenda.

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Opinion | The fresh faces in Lurie's cabinet will have vast power — but will they know how to wield it? A foursome of policy chiefs will attempt what a legion of veteran bureaucrats have been unable to accomplish: Make SF run efficiently.

New from @adamlashinsky.bsky.social: For his top 4 deputies, Lurie has chosen 1 ex-McKinsey consultant, 1 ex-Goldman Sachs banker, and 1 ex-bigtime nonprofit CEO. Starting to feel very, very Bloomberg-y at SF City Hall! sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Lurie's four bullpen czars will have vast power — but will they know how to wield it? A foursome of policy chiefs will attempt what a legion of veteran bureaucrats have been unable to accomplish: Make SF run efficiently.

Opinion: Lurie’s four bullpen czars will have vast power — but will they know how to wield it? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

SF crime czar was mysteriously reassigned after 2016 crash Daniel Lurie’s new public safety chief was sued after a 2016 car collision. A plaintiff in the case, which was settled in 2020, claims he was driving under the influence at the time of the incident.

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