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San Francisco’s Internet Archive fighting erasure of DEI, Jan. 6 materials

Archivists with the organization’s Wayback Machine now trying to predict what Trump might scrub next

February 4, 2025

I want to get off the Muni carousel of cuts and deficits

Amid a nationwide crisis of transit, S.F. is stuck with a 1970s mentality that could wreck the agency for the future

February 3, 2025

Mayor Lurie’s freeze on contracts throws yet another wrench in the great custom trash can debacle

The city has been working to replace those green bins for years, but the dream of a perfect can seems farther away now than ever

January 29, 2025

San Francisco’s Innocence Commission seems to have been on hiatus for nearly a year

The commission, tasked with looking for wrongful convictions on behalf of the District Attorney, hasn’t met since April 2024

January 27, 2025

Welcome to the age of AI-driven discrimination

'AI accountability is out and tech infrastructure is in,' a policy expert told Gazetteer SF

January 24, 2025

Two of the city’s biggest political groups are merging — but it looks more like crisis response than evolution

TogetherSF and Neighbors for a Better SF spent millions on the November election, with little to show for it. Will joining forces get them any more?

January 14, 2025

Inauguration day took Mayor Lurie from a packed Civic Center speech to a massive street party in Chinatown

SF residents expressed cautious optimism to Gazetteer SF about big swings on the mayor’s 100-day agenda

January 9, 2025

City Hall newcomer Chyanne Chen faces a tough task amid San Francisco’s looming budget deficit

The District 11 supervisor-elect is inheriting a neighborhood full of vacant storefronts and fed-up business owners

January 3, 2025

There’s no way the traffic from the Great Highway closure will be as bad as critics say it will

Even during the peak of rush hour, it was pretty easy to get around the Sunset — and the Upper Great Highway itself was basically empty

December 20, 2024