SF homeless service providers must prove their programs work. SF permitting software, not so much…

Homeless service providers will now be contracted via ‘performance-based metrics.' But that's not the case for OpenGov, the struggling permit software system. It's enough to give you whiplash.

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SF homeless service providers must prove their programs work. SF permitting software, not so much…

Homeless service providers will now be contracted via ‘performance-based metrics.' But that's not the case for OpenGov, the struggling permit software system. It's enough to give you whiplash.

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S.F. is poised to spend $33M more on OpenGov. It’s still only handling basic permits.

OpenGov is supposed to consolidate the city’s disparate permitting systems. City workers keep using the old system.

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San Francisco Democrats made a mockery of policing sexual misconduct

Two years after tough talk about confronting sexual assault and harassment in city  political circles, the S.F. Democratic Party’s process has proven to be a farce

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San Francisco Democrats made a mockery of policing sexual misconduct

Two years after tough talk about confronting sexual assault and harassment in city  political circles, the S.F. Democratic Party’s process has proven to be a farce

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How Alex Eala Became a Symbol of the Philippines

At only 21, the tennis phenom Alex Eala is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open.

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She said she rented a home from a Berkeley professor. But he’d been dead for months

A woman said she paid $30,000 to rent a home that belonged to a UC Berkeley professor. But he had been killed months before in an alleged murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by his ex-wife.

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San Francisco’s Parks Are Incredible. Why Is the Rec and Park Website So Bad?

One frustrated parent’s journey into the heart of darkness that is municipal web design.

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Drive-by shootings: a cabbie, a camera and a disappearing San Francisco

Walter Mackins spent years driving cabs and photographing San Francisco. That was easier in an era of cabdrivers — and plentiful homes for people like Walter Mackins.

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Mayor Lurie blasts Prop. I as a 'slush fund.’ His office would control the money.

It's deeply unfortunate that San Francisco's mayor is credibly telling voters there’s a slush fund being run out of his office

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San Francisco cops who pepper-sprayed wrong man flagged for excessive force

Police accountability report faults SFPD officers for violent 2024 Tenderloin encounter following a mistaken traffic stop

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Will Mayor Lurie's coat tails remain long in November?

San Francisco's mayor is giving voters discordant messages heading into the next election. But he's likable and popular enough that it may not matter.

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There are dozens of empty rooms near 16th and Mission. Why can’t the city use them to house people?

While the city spent over a year trying to address homelessness at the 16th Street BART plaza, many rooms at SROs in the area remained empty.

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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Who killed housing affordability in San Francisco?

Despite what the most vitriolic keyboard warriors on the internet would have you believe, this is a complicated question

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Connecticut and 20th is now ‘Art Agnos Way.’ From this perch, our former mayor oversees a changing city.

‘The same fight that sustains my Dad,’ Agnos’ son says, ‘Is the fight necessary to sustain San Francisco

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Jack Davis, the most feared and loathed man in San Francisco politics, is dead

How a kid who grew up in a Pennsylvania funeral parlor went from gay rights activist to S.F. political kingmaker

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Clint Reilly was the quintessential San Franciscan. For good and ill.

Reilly, who died over weekend at 79, was a consultant, tycoon and a legendarily difficult boss. But he may have been most difficult on himself.

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Walter Wong's 'kingdom' sells to porn baron — a strange and terrible saga

Great and terrible things happened at disgraced former permit expediter’s inner sanctum

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Taishanese has been in San Francisco since the 1860s. Now, there's a class for it.

Taishanese has been a dominant language in San Francisco since the Gold Rush. Now, you can learn it at City College.

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The San Francisco Church That Holds America’s Secrets

Mission Dolores was founded by Spanish missionaries the same year the U.S. declared its independence. It has borne witness to its own version of the American story—not the one you learned in school bu...

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San Francisco doesn’t have an antisemitism problem. It has a self-righteous loudmouth problem.

Once again, random angry boors have been used to portray San Francisco as a hotbed of organized, political antisemitism

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Right-wing loons can't quit Scott Wiener

The relationship between San Francisco’s aspirational congressman and reactionary national media is toxic. But, also, symbiotic.

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Joe (Mission Local) & Joe (SF Standard) Discuss the Results of the Primary

Joe Eskenazi and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez discuss the results of the primary election and what that means for us going into November.

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