Richie Greenberg – Page 14 – California Globe

Two-Tiered Justice: San Francisco and Oakland Edition

June 28, 2024 11:45 amJune 28, 2024 12:53 pm

I hope you’ve been paying at least some attention to the circus unfolding in the city of Oakland, California. It’s on a downward spiral more rapidly since the election of its mayor, Sheng Thao, who began her term January 2023....

The Greenberg Brief: Come on, Candidates, San Francisco Deserves Real Debate

June 20, 2024 3:30 amJune 20, 2024 6:31 am

There have been two debates in as many weeks, showcasing the top five mayoral candidates vying to lead San Francisco. Two of the four opposing incumbent mayor London Breed are not currently serving in office, namely Mark Farrell and Daniel...

The Greenberg Brief: San Francisco Mayoral Race – Thirteen Official Candidates Fight For Attention

June 15, 2024 2:47 amJune 15, 2024 2:48 am

Ellen Lee Zhou is a name many of you will not recognize, though she has indeed run for San Francisco mayor three times to date. I got to know her back in 2018 when I was a mayoral candidate as...

The Greenberg Brief: Trump Comes to San Francisco – the Fragile Have a Freak Out

June 8, 2024 7:52 amJune 8, 2024 8:29 am

I returned to San Francisco the night before Trump made a fundraising stop here, an event hosted by tech mogul David Sacks, his wife Jacqeline and others. Even before my plane touched down, while still mid-flight, I was receiving phone...

Democrats Duped Again: San Francisco’s Democratic Party Leaders Faked Moderacy

May 20, 2024 2:55 amMay 20, 2024 2:56 am

It’s barely eight weeks since March’s Super Tuesday elections results were made official: San Francisco was being declared “shifting Conservative.” Across the nation, headlines extolled the moderate wins at local polls. The “SF Democrats for Change” was the slate to...

The Greenberg Brief: Holding Out Hope for Prop. 47’s Survival

May 13, 2024 2:45 amMay 14, 2024 6:21 am

It’s now 10 years since the passage of the Safe Neighborhoods & Schools Act. How could voters not have been in favor of it back then? Well, we can now blame the deceptive ballot measure name in hindsight, as it...

The Greenberg Brief: Breed’s Grand Trans Appointment

May 4, 2024 7:00 amMay 4, 2024 7:01 am

We just can’t stop the constant parade of controversy, can we? San Francisco’s mayor London Breed Thursday announced her making an appointment for the position of Executive Director of the “Office of Transgender Initiatives.” Head-scratching aside, Breed finds this specific...