Member of recall group caught on video telling Ed Lee supporters to ‘Go back to China’
It didn’t take long for the “Recall Mayor Ed Lee 2016” effort to turn ugly. The small, fringe group filed papers last Tuesday to announce their intention to collect enough signatures to put the recall …
The Zen and Significance of Muhammad Ali
I met Muhammad Ali in a locker room in Mile High Stadium in Denver in 1979. During an interview scrum he borrowed my pen and shook my hand when he gave it back. Even though Ali was 37 (exactly halfway …
Busted: I was a Muni fare-cheat
On Christmas Eve, the family took the Muni rail up Embarcadero to dinner. When I got on I swiped my Clipper Card several times to no avail. I finally realized it didn’t have enough money on it. So, …
Ex-Chronicle boss a victim of home invasion
Ward Bushee, the former executive vice president and editor at The Chronicle, spent five years overseeing coverage of crime in the city. Last week he found out firsthand how crime patterns in the city …
You think cycling in SF is tough? Check out Woodside
If you think bicycle riding on the streets of San Francisco is a hot button issue, let us take you to Woodside, where a biking feud is so intense that someone is throwing carpet tacks in the path of …
Watch as million dollar homes sweep over San Francisco
Want to see San Francisco’s housing crisis depicted in a few seconds? Check out this map, which was created by Trulia economist Ralph McLaughlin for a report on San Francisco. The red dots are houses …
Columnist officiates at City Hall weddings
About a year ago I asked San Francisco Assessor Recorder Carmen Chu if it would be possible to officiate at some weddings at City Hall. I knew volunteer commissioners presided over marriages daily and …
Stanley ‘People Behaving Badly’ Roberts suffers a stroke
When Stanley Roberts woke up Friday morning, he was thinking about a personal milestone. It was the 17th anniversary of the day he started at KRON-TV, where he is a local celebrity for his hilarious …