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The city’s sobering center won’t open until March or April

Called RESET (Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage), the facility is part of a larger plan by the mayor’s office to help chronic drug users get treatment

January 6, 2026

Daniel Lurie’s 2025 wins and losses

From family zoning to dead mice, an assessment of the mayor’s first year in office

December 22, 2025

‘Can we be loud?’

A proud display of Jewishness, and a lot of cops, in the Castro after the shooting in Sydney

December 17, 2025

Federal Judge blocks Los Angeles troop deployment

Charles Breyer calls Pete Hegseth’s move for a ‘perpetual police force’ ‘shocking’

December 10, 2025

One event after another

What can a mellow movie star like Benicio del Toro teach a highly-scheduled mayor like Daniel Lurie?

December 9, 2025

California sues Trump to remove final troops from Los Angeles streets

In a ‘lively exchange,’ Judge Charles Breyer zings a representative of Pete Hegseth’s so-called Department of War

December 5, 2025

Welcome to City Hall, Alan Wong

The new District 4 Supervisor wants to work with everybody; that strategy may not please anybody

December 4, 2025

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

November 24, 2025

Sit it off

A street-level view of Mayor Lurie’s new sobering center plan

November 21, 2025

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

November 19, 2025