Dial D for dysfunction
San Francisco’s 911 dispatchers are being asked to work with antiquated equipment, crazy hours, poor mental health, and alongside new trainees who aren’t prepared
Strike Diary, Day Two: An unusually calm morning
A feeling of peace has settled into my home, but it’s not all Legos and blueberry muffins for SFUSD teachers
Marc Benioff makes ‘cruel’ ICE jokes at Salesforce event
The Salesforce CEO joked about ICE agents being at a company gathering in Las Vegas
Strike Diary, Day One: Back to lockdown
An (extremely) inside view of parenting, life, and trigonometry during the SFUSD picket
The 5 best hiking trails to hit on Super Bowl Sunday
Where to go while everyone else is glued to their giant flatscreens
How Jeffrey Epstein advised Minerva University
Newly released emails show how executives of San Francisco’s most ‘elite’ school needed help — and an occasional place to crash — from the disgraced financier
Working overtime
Representatives for the teachers union are preparing for a long weekend of negotiations with SFUSD
Paper tiger
The ‘California Post’ covers the Golden State from the point of view of a transplant who hates it here
High and low
In ‘The Organization,’ San Francisco’s glass towers and unfinished tunnels map a city where accountability only runs downhill
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Where everybody gnomes your name
If the New England Patriots win the Super Bowl, you can thank a garden gnome at Connecticut Yankee in Potrero Hill
For more than a decade, ‘Weird Al’ burlesque troupe has had a ball
How Tight & Nerdy went from Oakland oddity to SF IndieFest documentary subjects
Substack reports mass data leak: ‘This sucks. I’m sorry’
The popular newsletter platform was breached in October 2025
A billion apologies
The founders of this weekend’s March for Billionaires still won’t say if they’re joking, but they did want us to know we can’t count
Busy bees
Backyards around the city are all abuzz with hidden micro apiaries
Politics
Parents of SFUSD students hold their breath
The state monitor overseeing SFUSD’s finances weighs in, cautiously, on the negotiations
Business
Time to Rho
As its San Francisco team swells, the fintech startup Rho is moving to greener pastures
Tech
Of course the March for Billionaires website is AI slop
No one knows if the march is the real deal, but its website is definitely pretty fake
Food & Drink
Care and feeding of the Super Bowl
How local businesses get tapped to serve at the biggest game of the year
Immigration
What will SF law enforcement do if ICE kicks in your door? Ask again in a few weeks
If SFPD, the Sheriff, and the DA have a plan to protect our Fourth Amendment rights, they’re not sharing it
