San Francisco

City officials need to stop protecting SROs and start offering low-income folks better homes. — No cologne can mask the odor of the Tenderloin. The sharp tang of human waste pervades as one steps into the district; you are no longer in the San Francisco promised in the tourist guides. …

40-year-old Michelle Alyssa Go was killed after being pushed onto a New York City subway track on Saturday, January 18 — 2020 saw Covid-19 spur another public safety crisis: hate crimes conducted against AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) communities. Reports published by the Associated Press showed a massive increase in targeted acts of physical violence and hate speech toward AAPI community members. …

Get ready for a few months of some real hot [flower girl] shit — San Francisco’s home to the densest collection of public green spaces of any major city in the United States; every resident is estimated to be no more than a 10-minute walk to a nearby City park. Those of us lucky enough to call the seven-by-seven home took full advantage of…

Mother Nature continues to prove that she really is *the one* — The past seven days have seen San Francisco bathed in gorgeous sunsets, painted with blue skies, and, as of yesterday, ringed by glorious light refractions. …

The entire region is now out of ‘Extreme Drought’ conditions — This winter’s onslaught of wet weather, per calculations from the U.S. National Drought Monitor, pulled most of Northern California out of the worst of this years-long drought. San Francisco, as well as much of the Bay Area, is currently categorized as experiencing “D2 Severe Drought” drought conditions — a stark…