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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SF police looks likely to get $6.25 million from Justice Department
With sharp words for the DOJ, the judge on the case extends the deadline for SFPD to get a crucial grant
SF sues Department of Justice over police funding
The Department of Justice demands fealty in exchange for $6.25 million earmarked for more cops and addressing the mental health of officers
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
Somewhere between jail and a hospital
The Mayor is trying to learn some new moves as he tries 'going hard' on the drug crisis
The original movable type
A visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book where the presses never stop
A table divided
Charting the distance between Sam Altman and Steve Kerr at the Sydney Goldstein Theater
‘I’m the luckiest drag queen in the world’
Per Sia, the city’s newest Drag Laureate, shares a stage with the mayor
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
Four unanswered questions from today’s Lurie press conference
Pressed by reporters, the mayor spoke with deftness, but not always with directness
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









