Mayor Daniel Lurie – California Globe

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...

San Francisco’s Lurie Deficit: A Fiscal Crisis City Hall Refuses to Address

December 10, 2025 2:55 amDecember 10, 2025 2:56 am

San Francisco faces a daunting financial challenge once again: a projected one-billion-dollar budget deficit for the 2026 fiscal year. Mayor Daniel Lurie’s made startling remarks revealed at the Wired conference here last week. Lurie, though acting as the city’s ambassador...

California’s Tech Job Decline: Headed to Progressive Ruin

November 4, 2025 2:45 amNovember 4, 2025 2:46 am

For decades, California has been globally synonymous with tech innovation, with San Francisco and Silicon Valley epicenter birthing giants like Apple, Google, Twitter/X and Meta. Yet, as of November 2025, dominance in the U.S. tech workforce is waning, with the...

Gary McCoy: A Reckless Advocate Unfit for San Francisco City Hall

October 1, 2025 3:55 amOctober 1, 2025 6:52 am

In San Francisco’s gritty political arena, where the fentanyl crisis claims lives daily, Gary McCoy pitches himself as the ideal candidate for District 8 supervisor in 2026. A former legislative aide to Nancy Pelosi, Scott Wiener, and London Breed, McCoy...

San Francisco’s Antisemitism Problem: It’s Complicated

July 14, 2025 2:30 amJuly 14, 2025 2:31 am

It is barely summer 2025 and the just-completed San Francisco’s Pride Weekend became the setting for not one but two embarrassing and concerning incidents exposing Mayor Daniel Lurie’s difficultly in leadership. As one of several Jewish elected city officials (his...

Greenberg: San Francisco Misdiagnosed Blame for Rise in Antisemitism

June 25, 2025 2:45 amJune 25, 2025 2:46 am

San Francisco’s elected officials, long-steeped in infamous progressive ideology, have repeatedly and wrongfully attributed the periodic rise in antisemitic incidents to right-wing extremism, shunning the likely culprit: left-wing activism and influence, particularly from groups like the Arab Resource and Organizing...

Greenberg: No, Mayor Lurie, Twitter Didn’t Cause San Francisco’s Woes

May 22, 2025 11:20 amMay 22, 2025 11:20 am

San Francisco, once a shining beacon of innovation and culture, is grappling with a harsh reality: shuttered storefronts, rampant drug use, persistent homelessness, crime, and a fiscal mess. Previous Mayor London Breed and now Mayor Daniel Lurie have both pointed...