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.Connect
Among the bird nerds
Birders flock across the Bay Area in search of fleeting, feathery moments of grace
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
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
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
All hail the Tillyverse
Plus, Anthropic’s looming IPO and Trump’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad concert
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
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
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
With dueling endorsements, Connie Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti come out swinging
One has Nancy Pelosi, the other Rashida Tlaib. The difference says it all
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









