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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...

Globe Grievance: San Francisco Health Agency Gives Free Booze to Homeless Alcoholics

December 29, 2025 3:58 amDecember 29, 2025 10:04 am

The San Francisco Department of Public Health gives free shots of alcohol to homeless street alcoholics and addicts under the guise of ” harm reduction,” ostensibly hoping to keep them out of emergency rooms or needing emergency services. While that...

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...

The Lights Go Out in NewsomCity in NewsomState

December 22, 2025 2:02 pmDecember 22, 2025 2:07 pm

San Francisco is the center of the world AI revolution. AI needs electricity. Yet over the weekend NewsomCity, the jewel of NewsomState, couldn’t keep the lights on, or the self-driving Waymo cars of Google running on the potholed roads. The...

How Catholic Charities San Diego Transformed into a $80M Refugee Powerhouse on a Tide of Federal Dollars

December 11, 2025 7:45 amDecember 12, 2025 11:32 am

Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego, once a modest diocesan outpost serving the homeless and hungry, ballooned into a near $80 million juggernaut through an avalanche of government grants. From 2019 to 2023, the organization’s revenue more than sextupled (6x),...

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...