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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.

I want to get off the Muni carousel of cuts and deficits

Amid a nationwide crisis of transit, S.F. is stuck with a 1970s mentality that could wreck the agency for the future

February 3, 2025

Malls are dead. It’s time to figure out what comes next. 

Every upheaval has its victims, but real estate experts see a new dawn ahead

January 31, 2025

San Francisco’s Innocence Commission seems to have been on hiatus for nearly a year

The commission, tasked with looking for wrongful convictions on behalf of the District Attorney, hasn’t met since April 2024

January 27, 2025

Saying goodbye (temporarily?) to Sam Wo, a Chinatown institution

The beloved little restaurant, which first opened around 1912, is losing its chef-owner after four decades

January 25, 2025

The city is expanding a program that helps small businesses fix broken windows and other vandalism. Is it enough?

The grant gives thousands of dollars to fix smashed storefronts, and demand is increasing — but some shop owners are hoping for further relief

January 17, 2025

Two of the city’s biggest political groups are merging — but it looks more like crisis response than evolution

TogetherSF and Neighbors for a Better SF spent millions on the November election, with little to show for it. Will joining forces get them any more?

January 15, 2025