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.
Connect
Strike Diary, Day Two: An unusually calm morning
A feeling of peace has settled into my home, but it’s not all Legos and blueberry muffins for SFUSD teachers
Strike Diary, Day One: Back to lockdown
An (extremely) inside view of parenting, life, and trigonometry during the SFUSD picket
Working overtime
Representatives for the teachers union are preparing for a long weekend of negotiations with SFUSD
Where everybody gnomes your name
If the New England Patriots win the Super Bowl, you can thank a garden gnome at Connecticut Yankee in Potrero Hill
Parents of SFUSD students hold their breath
The state monitor overseeing SFUSD’s finances weighs in, cautiously, on the negotiations
‘We need to be more protected’
As San Francisco’s educators move toward a strike, special education teachers want their specific needs addressed
The good fight
California AG Rob Bonta says the courts have the Trump Administration on the ropes
As Vanderbilt takes over CCA, students ask WTF?
City Hall is excited about the Tennessee university replacing California College of the Arts. Students less so
Guitar wizard
From Red Rocks to Golden Gate Park, a longtime Grateful Dead fan reflects on Bob Weir’s legacy









