Why I take no pleasure in the downfall of an effervescent aspiring politician.

Anchor Brewery owner Hamdi Ulukaya has been squatting on SF’s favorite beermaker for years. Maybe a yogurt walkout will get his attention.

The state senator’s early warnings about artificial intelligence look prophetic now — and it’s just one reason he should be headed to Washington.

Our chipper and ubiquitous mayor has his own definition of accountability.

Two mayors, two speeches, two modes of leadership: Assessing what Daniel Lurie got right — and what topics he avoided — in his big 2026 address.

Few predicted his popularity or the speed with which he has altered the city’s narrative. But his accomplishments could be fleeting.

Will Daniel Lurie stay popular? Will voters kick out incumbents? Will OpenAI dive bomb? Adam Lashinsky peers into his crystal ball.

The sludge-filled city constitution needs a generational cleaning. We’ll see if the mayor’s willing to do the dirty work.

After labor unions floated a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations, a business coalition is preparing its own prop. It’s San Francisco in-fighting at its worst.

In naming Alan Wong, Mayor Lurie passed on making Natalie Gee D4 supervisor, but Sunset voters may not when given the opportunity to vote in June and November. Gee is qualified, but is a pro-labor pro...

Thanks to Supervisor Connie Chan and organized labor, the tired political turf wars are revving back up — and grand compromises are being trampled.

The debacle over the mayor’s Sunset supervisor appointment was a humiliating self-own — one that began months before he ever heard the name Beya Alcaraz.

By appointing an unqualified, inexperienced candidate to the Board of Supervisors, the mayor is acting like the president he dare not name. It may come back to haunt him.

When the administration steered a contract to a firm with ties to the mayor, it wasn’t playing favorites. It was showing who’s in charge.

By playing to Donald Trump’s vanity while “very nicely” requesting he stay out of town, the mayor fended off a federal invasion.

To distract from his National Guard comments, the CEO tried to get San Franciscans to believe Salesforce was growing its local investments. It’s not even close to true.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering effort is an abomination. But it illustrates just how dire the situation in this country has become.

I called the mayor’s upzoning scheme “incremental.” Some readers were having none of it.

The mayor’s “family zoning plan” is raising neighborhood advocates’ ire, despite it being modest, incremental, and necessary.

The moderate group that took over San Francisco’s Democratic Party did some weaselly stuff in an effort to avoid supporting Supervisor Joel Engardio.

With one fell swoop, District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to clean out some of the legislative sludge his predecessor left behind.

San Francisco’s 130 advisory bodies and committees collectively cost $34 million to operate, an investment that’s getting harder and harder for City Hall to countenance.

The scene that unfolded at a recent commission meeting gave me hope that sanity is beginning to prevail in San Francisco.

Maria Su is amiable, politically astute, and always on message. But will that be enough to save a school district on fire?

A board fight over outmoded contracting rules and a powerless citizen’s panel shows the city can’t break its old, bad habits.

I asked the mayor's homeless czar to explain what success for their new plan looks like. His answer: We’ll know it when we see it.

It’d be more fun if Lurie teed off on Trump. But not better for San Francisco.

Think business taxes are boring? You’re not wrong. But they’re important.

He avoided angering the city's powerful unions by blunting the budget axe. But he may have missed a golden political opportunity.

Does he squander goodwill with necessary cuts? Or kick the can down the road with accounting trickery? Either way, budget season may end in tears.

A bill by Bilal Mahmood and Shamann Walton seeks to spread the pain all over the city. Daniel Lurie wants to gut it — for good reason.

Opposition might keep a prime retail space from being filled. It's another example of the city's out-of-control kvetchocracy.

A sit-down with the SFUSD superintendent as she passes the six-month mark of her nearly-impossible job.

The mayor is cajoling reluctant city workers back to their municipal cubicles. Now he needs to push his friends in the corporate world to do the same.

The Fox News host will need to appeal to a much wider base if he wants to pull a Schwarzenegger. So far, he's doing the opposite.

An early-term assessment of the political neophyte who's shown an uncanny instinct for being a politician.

He loves literature and Napoleon. President Trump? Not so much. A litigator makes his case for why lawyers must stand up for each other.

The mayor is rolling out another plan that asks San Francisco's rich to pony up for its poor.

Mayor Daniel Lurie has shown he can convene the city's richest and most powerful. Now what will they do with that access?

How can so many departments reject the mayor's demand for budget cuts? It's all part of the typical City Family playbook.

For an inexperienced politician, the mayor has shown a surprising skill for consolidating power and winning over adversaries.

An awful attrition rate in the latest academy has some asking if changes are needed to fill the ranks.

The negotiation with the Board of Supervisors was an early test of the mayor's leadership.

The mayor ran for office on a theme of governmental accountability and was quick to point the finger at City Hall whenever bad news broke. Guess who's accountable now?

Police have made more drug arrests on this three-block stretch than anywhere else in the city but conditions remain dire.

An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties.

Among the stores closing in late February are known theft hotspots and the store where Banko Brown was fatally shot in 2023.

A woman was injured by a firecracker Wednesday outside Daniel Lurie’s inauguration banquet in Chinatown.

In his inaugural address, San Francisco's new mayor showed his oratorical weakness. But he still brought some heat.