Richie Greenberg – California Globe

El Al’s SFO–TLV Is Back – And It’s a Big Deal

October 28, 2026 11:06 amOctober 28, 2026 11:06 am

SFO’s International Terminal hosted a launch celebration for El Al’s restored nonstop flights between San Francisco and Tel Aviv. Airline representatives, flight crew, and airport managers gathered for speeches and a ribbon-cutting that marked the official return of the route....

The Confirmation Californians Didn’t Need (But Got Anyway)

October 27, 2026 9:30 amOctober 27, 2026 9:31 am

Most of us didn’t require a think tank to tell us California became a high-cost, high-friction experiment in which working people subsidize political theater. The daily evidence was already plentiful: taxes that treated a middle-class salary like a moral failing,...

Get Out of the Way San Francisco, ICE Has Work To Do

October 21, 2026 4:48 pmOctober 21, 2026 4:48 pm

On October 19, 2026, ICE agents arrested 51-year-old Salvadoran national Milton Ramos-Rodriguez on a South of Market/SoMa neighborhood sidewalk in San Francisco, and city hall responded as expected – clutching pearls and grabbing the checkbook. ICE stated that Ramos-Rodriguez had...

Don’t Dilute My Legal Vote Gavin

October 21, 2026 6:30 amOctober 21, 2026 6:31 am

Hey Gavin, my legal vote should count. Gavin Newsom, Rob Bonta, and Scott Wiener and a gaggle of vocal state officials have spent years warning that democracy is one Trump tweet away from collapse. Yet these same officials treat the...

A Year Later, We Need a Surge in SF Dealer Takedowns

October 17, 2026 9:23 amOctober 17, 2026 9:23 am

Late last year, in October 2025 – President Trump prepared more than 100 Customs and Border Protection and other federal agents for an immigration enforcement surge into the San Francisco Bay Area. The operation targeted removable non-citizens. The Department of...

Pelosi Must Press Connie Chan on Anti-Israel Stance

October 11, 2026 6:30 amOctober 11, 2026 6:31 am

Retiring congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her in San Francisco – even as Chan makes a sharp break with Pelosi’s own approach to Israel. Chan advanced from the June primary behind state Senator Scott Wiener; Pelosi...

Connie Chan: Failing Upward

October 5, 2026 10:00 amOctober 5, 2026 10:05 am

Connie Chan’s campaign for Congress to succeed Nancy Pelosi is a familiar San Francisco promotion: preside over a mess, then ask for a bigger office. After years at City Hall during civic disorder, massive budget increases, housing paralysis, and a...