“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.
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.
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.
Since the Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon’s October 2025 article about community readiness in the face of potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, much has changed regarding ICE sentiment globally and on on San Francisco’s west side.
Lurie’s father may be a rabbi, but his values do not reflect those of the Ashkenazic American Judaism with which so many of us were raised. A sincere apology is required.
The award-winning Sunset Night Market returns Friday, February 27th to kick off the Year of the Horse! Join Sunset Mercantile, Wah Mei, Asian Inc., and Into The Streets for the first in a series of four night markets happening in 2026.
Your experience of the Sunset District may have brought one particular person to your attention. CARL GUERRA was a developmentally-disabled adult who lived near 39th Avenue and Wawona Street. He had an amazing personality which enabled him to reach out to people of all ages and engage them in conversation.
On Friday, Feb. 20, proponents for restoring a previous compromise to share the Upper Great Highway submitted at the SF Department of Elections their intent to gather signatures to put the issue before San Francisco voters in the November election.
A project to rebuild Blue Heron Lake’s boatshed at nearly twice its current size will receive an $850,000 infusion in federal funding, enhancing public access and rental operations at the beloved Golden Gate Park facility.
Pictures from the Lunar New Year celebration in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photos and captions by Kevin Kelleher and Emily Trinh/Kemily Visuals.
Artificial turf should never have been used in the playing fields of Golden Gate Park and it should not be used in the renovation of the Crocker/Amazon playing fields. It is toxic, pollutes the environment and poses a danger to all San Franciscans. Plastic grass continually sheds microplastics and can’t be recycled or disposed of in a landfill.
Model boating season at Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park opens on March 14.
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