By Markos Kounalakis Special to The Examiner Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to America a few months back to cajole and plead for support — both military and political. He …
So far, 2022 has been a pretty good year for Mayor London Breed The Feb. 15 recall of three school board members, which Breed supported, passed overwhelmingly, giving her three…
San Francisco’s police chief came to town back in 2017, with a badge in his hand and reform in his heart. Five years later, Bill Scott has accomplished a lot…
By Gil Duran With the school board recall out of the way, San Francisco voters face yet another consequential decision: Whether to boot District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office in…
by The Examiner Editorial Board The shooting of an Urban Alchemy street “ambassador” in front of a homeless encampment near City Hall on Feb. 23 highlighted the dangers of this…
It was a season of fear. Murders spiked, mobs rampaged in the streets and California voters found themselves at a crossroads. Would they buy into a lock ’em up Republican…
By The Examiner Editorial Board In November, 56% of voters in Minneapolis rejected a measure to disband the city’s police department and replace it with something called the Department of…
Among the more than a dozen smash-and-grab robberies in the Bay Area in recent weeks, cannabis facilities may have been the hardest hit. In San Francisco, at least four cannabis…
On April 12, 2020, San Francisco police responded to an emergency call about a person in mental distress on the 1300 block of Natoma Street. There, on the back balcony…
Federal prosecutors expanded the corruption case against former top San Francisco public utilities official Harlan Kelly on Tuesday to include new bank fraud charges against him and prominent real estate…
