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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.

Strange bedfellows

ConnectedSF, ‘not just one more SF group,’ hosted Mayor Lurie to speak for six and half minutes at its Celebrating the Power of People gathering Monday

November 19, 2025

Somewhere between jail and a hospital

The Mayor is trying to learn some new moves as he tries 'going hard' on the drug crisis

November 14, 2025

The original movable type

A visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book where the presses never stop

November 11, 2025

A table divided

Charting the distance between Sam Altman and Steve Kerr at the Sydney Goldstein Theater

November 4, 2025

‘I’m the luckiest drag queen in the world’

Per Sia, the city’s newest Drag Laureate, shares a stage with the mayor

October 31, 2025

Inside SFUSD’s response to the troop surge that wasn’t

Principals say they were left to improvise their own responses to threats posed to students, parents, and staff from ICE and other agencies

October 28, 2025

Four unanswered questions from today’s Lurie press conference

Pressed by reporters, the mayor spoke with deftness, but not always with directness

October 23, 2025

The city holds steady

With an assist from ‘great people’ like Marc Benioff and Jensen Huang, Mayor Daniel Lurie says he convinced the president not to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

October 23, 2025

Not a moment too soon

With federal forces descending upon the Bay Area, Mayor Lurie issued his most forceful condemnation of the Trump administration

October 22, 2025

Scenes from a city in waiting

Another perfect day as San Francisco braces for the arrival of federal troops

October 21, 2025