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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.

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

Tepid rivalry: Chakrabarti, Chan, Hurabiell, and Wiener make their cases yet again

Five takeaways from last night’s Congressional debate at the Randall Museum

May 7, 2026

SF politicos cozy up with an influential conservative think tank

The American Enterprise Institute held its invite-only ‘Solutions Summit’ on Wednesday to debate how to fix San Francisco

May 6, 2026

Show and tell: Chan and Wiener release their stocks, but Chakrabarti wants call records 

Democratic congressional candidates are pressuring each other for more disclosures

April 30, 2026

Even after the Tenderloin fight, the mayor keeps moving the homeless along

A new video shows the mayor’s detail confront a woman near a freeway on-ramp

April 29, 2026

Face Time: Could Connie Chan’s ‘working people’-centered leadership work in Congress?

Running for Nancy Pelosi’s seat, the stalwart District 1 progressive wants to better define San Francisco — and herself

April 27, 2026

Congressional candidate blasted for ‘racist’ social media post of Connie Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti as socialist stereotypes

Marie Hurabiell shared, then deleted, a satirical image of her fellow candidates

April 22, 2026

At last night’s District 4 supe debate, the only losers were Alan Wong and the mayor

The incumbent supervisor didn’t show, and his opponents jumped at the opportunity

April 17, 2026

What is going on with Jackie Fielder?

Understanding the District 9 Supervisor’s health crisis and what it might mean for the city

April 8, 2026

The long Sam Altman profile that people definitely have opinions about without reading

Plus: Who rules X and why was there a porcupine in the ceiling?

April 6, 2026