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The feds have erected a cruel and unusual Rube Goldberg deportation machine in the Bay Area. First they announced that San Francisco's immigration court would close at the end of 2026 and 100,000 pending cases would be relocated to a court in Contra Costa county.

Last year, the 16-unit apartment building at 1120 Jackson St. was sold to a new owner or group of owners under the guise of an LLC called Nabob Hill.

A Chronicle poll from earlier this year is still being used to support the claim that San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is popular.

Whether getting drinks or just getting groceries, San Franciscans are having their faces scanned and checked against facial recognition databases at an increasing number of local business.

In Pittsburg, CA, more than 300 community members packed a recent City Council meeting to oppose a 300,000 square foot data center on a former golf course, forcing the city to put the project on pause.

Bloomberg reports that a third to half of all data centers proposed in 2026 have been delayed or cancelled.

On July 14, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 in favor of a 362-page ordinance that "deletes or consolidates" 174 unique reporting requirements in one fell swoop.

The AI Boom is the single largest economic phenomenon in the US, and it is squarely centered on the city of San Francisco. In recent years, local companies have taken in hundreds of billions dollars in investments from all over the world, contributing to an obscene level of inequality in the city.

Zohran Mamdani’s ran and won on taxing the rich to fund the badly-needed economic programs for working people in his platform. Taxing the rich polls well in 2026, and it’s no wonder with everyday people struggling to survive. Here in San Francisco, we have a VERY different type of mayor.

The Cow Palace in Daly City is a treasured cultural institution for the people who loved San Francisco and the Bay Area before AI came to town. It's home to the annual Dickens Christmas Fair a month long community costume party and immersive theater experience providing Victorian delight since 1970.

During the COVID pandemic, many lines including the #33 were suspended. MTA brought the 33 back, but just as the line was recovering, they switched from a 15 minute to a 20 minute headway, meaning people had to wait 20 minutes instead of 15.

San Francisco's OpenAI and Anthropic are key drivers of a massive global data center buildout that is breathing new life into the fossil fuel industry, requiring the development of new energy capacity and extending existing coal and gas fired power plants' operating lifetimes.

From California to New York, voters are increasingly eager to tax the rich in order to repair and rebuild a social safety net worthy of a wealthy, developed nation. The rich, by and large, don't like that.