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Joel Rosenblatt

Joel covers the forces in San Francisco — money, business, personalities, local law, and politics — that bind the city and pull it apart. He most recently worked for Bloomberg News reporting on state and federal courts.

Previously, he covered the crime beat for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and was a freelancer in New York City. Before that, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. He was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, studied public policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and has a Masters degree from Columbia Journalism School.

Back to school

With the teachers strike over, the hard work of funding and running SFUSD continues

February 13, 2026

Strike Diary, Day Four: Tetris

Piecing together another day without school

February 12, 2026

Strike Diary, Day Two: An unusually calm morning

A feeling of peace has settled into my home, but it’s not all Legos and blueberry muffins for SFUSD teachers

February 10, 2026

Strike Diary, Day One: Back to lockdown

An (extremely) inside view of parenting, life, and trigonometry during the SFUSD picket

February 9, 2026

Working overtime

Representatives for the teachers union are preparing for a long weekend of negotiations with SFUSD

February 5, 2026

Where everybody gnomes your name

If the New England Patriots win the Super Bowl, you can thank a garden gnome at Connecticut Yankee in Potrero Hill

February 4, 2026

Parents of SFUSD students hold their breath

The state monitor overseeing SFUSD’s finances weighs in, cautiously, on the negotiations

February 2, 2026

‘We need to be more protected’

As San Francisco’s educators move toward a strike, special education teachers want their specific needs addressed

January 29, 2026

Friend of the pod

At a live KQED podcast taping, Mayor Daniel Lurie felt the love

January 23, 2026

The good fight

California AG Rob Bonta says the courts have the Trump Administration on the ropes

January 22, 2026