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Eddie Kim

Eddie Kim reports on San Francisco news — including politics, crime, commerce, social conflict, and everything in between.

He was a longtime features writer at the critically acclaimed men’s magazine Mel, and has contributed to major publications including Vice, Slate, The Guardian and Paste Magazine. He began his career doing hyperlocal journalism at L.A. Downtown News, where he won multiple awards from the L.A. Press Club and California News Publishers Association.

Among the bird nerds

Birders flock across the Bay Area in search of fleeting, feathery moments of grace

June 12, 2026

Rest in power, Prop D

The proposed tax (November 2025 – June 2026) is survived by a desperation for Big Biz revenue and faith in Lurie’s billionaire comeback boom

June 5, 2026

Emergency call: Petition calls for the ouster of the city’s head of emergency management

Internally circulated document calling for a vote of no confidence in Mary Ellen Carroll follows a Gazetteer SF report on 911 dispatchers fed up with improper treatment, brutal workloads, and distrust of leadership

June 4, 2026

Behind the ballot: Three issues raised by today’s vote

We’re all exhausted from the ads and propositions, but here’s what’s really at stake

June 2, 2026

All hail the Tillyverse

Plus, Anthropic’s looming IPO and Trump’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad concert

June 1, 2026

Waymo’s double parking problem is our double parking problem

AVs have figured out that blocking traffic is no big deal. Wonder where they learned that

May 29, 2026

Face Time: Saikat Chakrabarti may be a centimillionaire, but he still dreams of dollar tacos from Pancho Villa

The progressive Democratic congressional candidate has big ideas about housing, AI as a public utility, and taming corporations

May 27, 2026

Sergey Brin fled California, but he keeps throwing money at SF politics

Even from Nevada, the Google co-founder is fighting the Overpaid CEO tax and funding a right-wing extremist (among others) for governor

May 20, 2026

With dueling endorsements, Connie Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti come out swinging

One has Nancy Pelosi, the other Rashida Tlaib. The difference says it all

May 20, 2026

Scott Wiener’s super PAC is a dark-money mess

A 2024 change in campaign finance law is fueling the congressional hopeful’s outreach efforts

May 15, 2026