Anthony LazarusCastro Diehards Talk a Big Game About the SF Theater. What Have They Done for It Lately?Commentary: The demands and criticism directed at the theater’s owners and operator come across like entitled nonsense.Jun 20, 20234Jun 20, 20234
Anthony LazarusSan Francisco Should Tell Twitter: GTFOCommentary: Once the city worked to have the iconic social media company stay. Now make it go.Dec 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022
Anthony LazarusSF Has to Build Housing, But Officials Think Too Small About the CrisisState mandates and muscle could drive a housing breakthrough in 2022. Supervisors’ ideas, however, are incremental at best.Feb 10, 2022Feb 10, 2022
Anthony LazarusCity Hall Sure Is Toxic, But SF’s Demagoguery Is Most Damaging and DisgracefulEntering rehab, Aaron Peskin apologized for bullying. But no one takes back remarks meant to blow up debate or civic progress.Jul 26, 2021Jul 26, 2021
Anthony LazarusSF’s 20-Year Drive for a Faster Geary Bus Heads to the CurbLiz Brisson, who runs the Muni project, explains the latest design change: ‘There’s really not that much of a difference.’Jun 4, 2021Jun 4, 2021
Anthony LazarusSF Sees Bright Spots, But Politics Beyond the City Are Bleak Over the Long TermLife in San Francisco will suffer from state and national divisions over housing, transit, homelessness, everything that matters.Nov 4, 2020Nov 4, 2020
Anthony LazarusTech Giants Want to Rewrite Rules So Much They’ll Pay $200 Million to Persuade VotersUber, Lyft, and other backers of Prop 22 are counting on convenience to trump any queasiness about creating a caste of gig workers.Oct 26, 2020Oct 26, 2020
Anthony LazarusSF’s COVID Recovery Report Shows Consensus Across the City: It’s the Bureaucracy, StupidTo spring back post-pandemic, doing everything from affordable housing and outdoor dining to taxes has to get better around here.Oct 15, 2020Oct 15, 2020
Anthony LazarusWith Prop E, the March 3 Ballot Is Elemental to San Francisco’s FutureA local proposal to link new office space to affordable housing could shape the city for decades.Feb 21, 20201Feb 21, 20201
Anthony LazarusCount on SF’s Elections for CurveballsPreston and Boudin squeeze out wins over the mayor’s allies via ranked-choice voting. Progressives are ascendant, but the city needs…Nov 12, 2019Nov 12, 2019