The final chapter in a decade of improvements to the 5 and 5R delivers safer streets, faster Muni service, and enhanced reliability for 15,000 daily riders along one of San Francisco’s busiest corridors.
This year we have seen more and more attacks and violence from the President Donald Trump’s administration on our rights and our communities. He is a threat to our immigrant community, to our access to health care, our education system, our most vulnerable and so much more. Locally we have been pushing back, making our voices heard and allocating additional funds to offset federal cuts, but we have so much work left to do.
Recent police activity in the Richmond District.
Cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
Comparison photos of Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue 108 years apart.
“Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide.”
France’s Claude Monet (1840-1926), the founder of Impressionism and the movement’s most prolific painter, reluctantly visited Venice, Italy, in October of 1908. At the time, he had grown disenchanted with the way his “Water Lilies” paintings were progressing. His dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, rejected the work, leading Monet to cancel the show at the Paris gallery and to destroy many of the paintings in the series.
A published author residing in the Richmond District, Stephanie M. Wildman, recently released her sixth children’s book, “Story Power!” During the early stages of the book, she shared her concept with her grandson, Simon Wildman Chung. He liked what she had written but had an idea to expand it.
The conceptual design of a new outdoor recreation area for senior citizens, to be installed behind the Senior Center in Golden Gate Park at 37th Avenue and Fulton Street, was unanimously approved by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission.
Earlier this month, I stood inside the warehouse at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank surrounded by individuals packing groceries for families across the Bay Area. Boxes moved steadily down the line. Fresh produce was sorted and stacked. Drivers mapped out delivery routes to bring food to families in need.
On Saturday, Feb. 7, The Richmond Neighborhood Center (TRNC) celebrated its second annual Lunar New Year Night Market. More than 5,000 neighbors gathered to join the vibrant celebration, which stretched along Balboa Street between 35th and 40th avenues.
San Francisco is stuck in a broken relationship. We’re being gaslit, shortchanged and repeatedly let down – and we’ve had enough.
San Francisco has over 500 polling stations, for primary and general elections. Therefore, each election year, we can save about $5 million from the City’s budget by making it all mail-in ballots and having one well-run polling station in each District.
The Richmond District’s first 100% affordable housing development held its grand opening on Nov. 17, 2025. The seven-story building, located at 383 Sixth Ave., is fully leased and home to 98 senior citizens who are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about their new residences.
After a week of closed campuses, picket lines and hurried schedule changes, San Francisco public schools have reopened following a tentative agreement between the district and teachers, but the effects of the strike are still being felt across the City and on the west side.
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