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.
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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?
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
‘Sometimes a homeless man has no choice’
A Market Street encounter with Daniel Lurie
Roger & Me
A passionate fan finally serves a question or two to tennis superstar Roger Federer
Tennis comes slamming back to San Francisco
Player-turned-coach Brad Gilbert hopes the Laver Cup puts the city back on the tennis map
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
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
Dad & Co.
What does a 10-year-old make of the Dead? ‘A lot of old people, and they all look like hippies’
‘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









