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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.

‘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

Fans for life

Sunset tattoo artist Salem Ofa specializes in Dead-related ink

July 21, 2025

The two towers

The new owner of Market Center has big plans (hoops! pickle ball! climbing wall! rooftop restaurant!), but don’t even think about touching the garden

July 15, 2025

A pizza place where the Dead lives

The Grateful Dead is baked deep into Dogpatch’s Long Bridge Pizza

July 9, 2025

SF State’s one-of-a-kind Iranian studies center is closing when it’s most needed

‘I feel deeply betrayed,’ director says, after philanthropist rethinks an endowment

June 27, 2025

Newsom summons the posse after Trump’s beatdown

The California governor might still have some fight left

June 20, 2025

Newsom v. Trump could set a dangerous precedent

Ninth Circuit looks likely to bless Trump’s National Guard deployment anywhere, anytime

June 18, 2025

The heartbreaking smallness of San Francisco’s immigration court

In this place that looks like a dentist’s office, people’s lives hang in the balance

June 5, 2025

Mr. Missakian goes to San Francisco

Not much is known about Craig Missakian, the Trump administration’s newly appointed US Attorney for Northern California. That may be the point

May 29, 2025

Club soccer confidential

Inside the ultra-competitive world of San Francisco’s private youth soccer clubs, where kids hustle and parents do their best to keep up

May 20, 2025