Richie Greenberg – Page 4 – California Globe

Newsom’s Latest Disaster: A Davos Tantrum

January 20, 2026 5:37 pmJanuary 20, 2026 5:37 pm

Mr. Newsom is in Davos, Switzerland this week, not for a ski holiday, but to attend the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. His latest appearance exemplifies the petulant, sore-loser mentality that plagues him, the California legislature, and the national...

Mayor Lurie’s State of the City: A Critical Examination

January 16, 2026 3:00 amJanuary 16, 2026 3:04 am

San Francisco’s Mayor Daniel Lurie, in this morning’s State of the City address, painted a picture of a city on the cusp of a triumphant economic resurgence, touting 2025 as a pivotal year for our recovery in the retail and...

Congressional Candidate Scott Wiener Betrays Jewish Voters Over Gaza

January 12, 2026 1:02 pmJanuary 12, 2026 1:05 pm

In a recorded message posted to social media over the weekend, California State Senator and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Scott Wiener declared Israel has committed “genocide” in Gaza. This is nothing short of a misguided betrayal of San...

San Francisco’s Latest Proposal: A Curfew on Corner Markets

January 7, 2026 12:32 pmJanuary 7, 2026 12:32 pm

This week, two members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood jointly introduced controversial legislation to expand an overnight curfew on corner stores and convenience markets from San Francisco’s Tenderloin into South of Market (SoMa) and...

Seize PG&E? A Congressional Candidate Makes the Case

December 31, 2025 2:30 pmDecember 31, 2025 2:31 pm

In progressive activism, few ideas capture the imagination quite like the concept of seizing control of essential services from private corporate hands and placing them under government oversight. And that’s just what a candidate for Congress suggests. Saikat Chakrabarti, a...

San Francisco Reparations: Will Mayor Lurie Veto this Unconstitutional and Illegitimate Scheme?

December 24, 2025 2:03 pmDecember 24, 2025 2:03 pm

After last week’s near unanimous approval by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors (our 11-member City Council) to establish a “fund” to accept and distribute so-called Reparations to qualified city recipients, will Mayor Daniel Lurie veto it? In July 2023, San...

History’s Most Pro-Israel and Pro-Jewish U.S. President

December 19, 2025 12:10 pmDecember 19, 2025 12:10 pm

No previous U.S. president has combined such a sweeping set of pro-Israel diplomatic breakthroughs and robust domestic measures against antisemitism as has President Trump. And today’s democrats are seething. Throughout modern American history, U.S. presidents have varied widely in their...