A campaign with the stated purpose of returning “law-and-order” to San Francisco’s streets has been caught overstepping the bounds of propriety – and often breaking the law.
Commentary: Ugly Recall Campaign Will Only Get Worse
Sponsored: One Richmond Winter Holiday Open House and Toy Drive Dec. 15.
You are invited to the Richmond Neighborhood Center’s Winter Holiday Open House, Wednesday, Dec. 15.
Letter to the Editor: Problems with Proposed Housing Project at 3055 Clement St.
I just got word of a proposed six-story, 60-foot-plus-tall building at the southeast corner of Clement Street and 32nd Avenue.
Cartoon: ‘What a Fool Believes’ by Paul Kilduff
Cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
Historical Photo: Sweeny/Sweeney Observatory
The Sweeny Observatory once graced the top of Strawberry Hill at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park.
At the de Young: Fashion Designer Patrick Kelly’s Brief but Influential Career
For fashion designer Patrick Kelly, it was all about the buttons – the mismatched ones adorning his signature body-conscious knit dresses and the metaphorical buttons he pushed addressing race, class and sexuality.
Press Release: City College Journalism Students Reel in 18 Awards
City College’s journalism students captured 18 honors in the 44th Annual San Francisco Press Club’s Greater Bay Area Awards night.
Announcements: November 2021
Things to do and subjects of note on San Francisco’s west side.
Cartoon: ‘Holy Zuck!!’ by Ralph Lane
Cartoon by Ralph Lane.
Letter to the Editor: Response to Quentin L. Kopp’s November 2021 Column
You obviously did not read my precise reasoning about why government needs to invest where private investment cannot.
Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Oct. 29-31, 2021.
Link to photos from Outstde Lands 2019. TOP
City Hall: Connie Chan
San Francisco continues to face an unprecedented housing affordability crisis. With the exception of the brief dip in the rental housing market during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s harder and harder for working families to afford to live in San Francisco.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
Professor William Shughart of Utah State University described accurately the inaccuracy of “characterizing government spending as investment.” He reminded us public entities don’t “undertake projects based on expected rates of return, payback or any other sound financial criteria.”
Commentary: ‘The Best of the Richmond’
I am excited to introduce a new project we will be starting in December: “The Best of the Richmond.”
Sponsored: The SF Public Utilities Commission, a Civic Disaster – From Corruption to Conflagration – How They are ‘MOC-ing’ the Richmond and Sea Cliff
Four years ago, in the November 2017 issue of the Richmond Review, there appeared an article entitled “Plan to Protect Neighborhoods Abandoned: Lack of water to fight fires in southern and western neighborhoods after a major quake could result in a firestorm, like the 1906 disaster.”
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