What is already happening in SF is pretty bad. There’s a 36% commercial real estate vacancy rate downtown as many worker move to a permanent hybrid workweek. That means less foot traffic for downtown businesses which have been closing at a swift pace over the past year. Downtown is quickly becoming a place where people just […]
Is there anything easier than being a criminal in a liberal city? Whether it’s San Francisco residents leaving their trunks open so that thieves needn’t smash their windows, or catch-and-release policies taking hold in cities, it seems that being a criminal is easier than ever. It doesn’t even matter how much evidence is presented in […]
Marxist Democrats have distorted the very concept of compassion and then weaponized it against U.S. citizens and legal immigrants alike. After all, no other tactic could have compelled law-abiding Americans to tolerate illegal immigration for as long as they have. In a Thursday post on the social media platform X, conservative lawyer and Republican Party […]
Although Super Tuesday may have been predictable on the presidential front, the big primary day held some surprises lower down the ballot. Deep-blue cities and states are rejecting leftist policies. In San Francisco, voters backed ballot measures to strengthen the city’s police force and mandate drug tests for welfare recipients, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to declare […]
As most readers already know, the entire western US has been dealing with a growing homeless problem for years. That problem has been exacerbated by a couple of court decisions issued by the 9th Circuit (whose decisions only apply to western states). The two decisions, Boise and Grants Pass, both found that municipalities do not […]
Walking to cast their ballots next week along needle-strewn streets, past the gauntlet of addicts, petty thieves and empty storefronts that are the landmarks of 21st-century San Francisco, voters of the city by the Bay are expected to send a powerful message that they have had enough. “The pendulum is swinging,” Malcolm Weitz, 41, said. […]
Yesterday I wrote about the announcement that Macys was closing about a third of its stores including the flagship store in San Francisco. What I tried to point out is that even if the closure of this store had more to do with corporate problems at Macys and a general trend toward online shopping which […]
The Golden State Warriors may have disappointed their audience when they lost the game to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night, but they were pleasing a much greater audience-of-one later that night. The Warriors announced a special event following their Sunday home game against the Nuggets titled “Fellowship Night.” Unlike a typical NBA game, the […]
The bad news is that San Francisco is losing yet another flagship retailer downtown. The good news is that this time they aren’t the only ones. Macy’s announced today that it will close about 30% of its outlets nationwide which works out to about 150 stores. Macy’s will close its flagship Union Square store, according […]
Washington is once again facing a potential shutdown. Funding for the federal government will run out in early March unless the House and Senate can bridge their differences and pass spending legislation. At the same time, the city of San Francisco seems to have few problems doling out huge amounts to well-connected activist groups and […]
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