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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.

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

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