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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.

Don’t let the sun go down on green tech

Otherlab’s Mission district headquarters was a white hot center for clean, renewable technologies. Will the Trump administration snuff it out?

October 15, 2025

Resurrecting the Red Vic

Despite a fight with her partner, a Los Angeles landlord is trying to restore peace to the iconic hippie hotel on Haight

October 1, 2025

‘Sometimes a homeless man has no choice’

A Market Street encounter with Daniel Lurie

September 30, 2025

Roger & Me

A passionate fan finally serves a question or two to tennis superstar Roger Federer

September 19, 2025

Tennis comes slamming back to San Francisco

Player-turned-coach Brad Gilbert hopes the Laver Cup puts the city back on the tennis map

September 12, 2025

The lawyer in winter

David Boies is the most admired attorney in America. The same week he won a class action against Google, he made a closing argument of his own

September 5, 2025

Back-to-school jitters

With trans and immigrant students the target of the Trump administration’s hostilities, SFUSD teachers and administrators are bracing for impact

August 11, 2025

Dad & Co.

What does a 10-year-old make of the Dead? ‘A lot of old people, and they all look like hippies’

August 4, 2025

Jerry is my homeboy

Walking in the Grateful Dead founder’s footsteps in the Excelsior

July 30, 2025

‘It’s designed to put fear in people’

An immigrant’s first-person account of living, working, and raising a family in San Francisco under the threat of ICE raids

July 25, 2025