The Queen of Car Break-ins
Shirin Oloumi is known as the Queen of Car Break-ins. She doesn't break into cars. She prosecutes the people who do. Every car break-in that leads to an arrest in San Francisco crosses her desk, and s...
29 Mars 201918min
Why S.F. General's bills are so damn high
Now that San Francisco General Hospital’s sketchy billing practice—in which privately insured patients are personally on the hook for their bills—have been revealed, there’s a central question: Why ar...
22 Mars 201913min
Inside San Francisco’s Mental Health Crisis
Rachel Rodriguez, a social worker in San Francisco General Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room, is incensed at the way some people are painting the move toward conserving more mentally ill people. S...
12 Mars 201928min
“Difficult” Supervisor Hillary Ronen
From her insistence she wasn’t elected president of the Board of Supervisors because of sexist ideas about her being “difficult” to her drive to build more homeless navigation centers and shelters in ...
1 Mars 201940min
A State Solution for SF General’s Brutal Billing Practices
Assemblyman David Chiu has heard the stories - of regular San Franciscans going to S.F. General with appendicitis, broken bones and migraines and getting stuck with a bill for tens of thousands of dol...
24 Feb 201923min
Seeking Small Miracles for the Homeless
Miracle Messages uses social media to try to connect homeless people in San Francisco with long-lost love ones in hopes of getting them back home with someone who cares about them. They’ve matched nea...
8 Feb 201930min
An Early Look at the Race to Become San Francisco’s Next District Attorney
Columnist Heather Knight and Hall of Justice reporter Evan Sernoffsky discuss the already crowded field to replace San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. For the first time in about a century,...
6 Feb 201922min
185 Million Reasons to Fight
Official discussions about how to divvy up San Francisco's $185 million windfall were set to begin at Wednesday's Budget and Finance committee meeting. These discussions have become about a lot more t...
6 Feb 20199min
