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Last month Sup. Connie Chan, who’s running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, released a campaign ad excoriating San Francisco’s AI boom. “AI data centers are driving up our utility costs, displacing our community, and jeopardizing our environment,” she said, standing in front of a public library. Chan’s not the only one raging against the machines. […] The post SF’s Data Center Debate Heats…
With squeaky giggles, a few of San Francisco’s youngest students took the mic last week to help school officials and other bigwigs open the city’s first new public school in 20 years. When the school year starts next Monday, Mission Bay Elementary will welcome three- through five-year-olds. The ribbon-cutting might well be the easiest task […] The post SFUSD Debuts a New School in Booming Mission…
Advocates for public services cheered San Francisco’s budget compromise earlier this summer. The final tally avoided $28.5 million in proposed cuts to City College and to nonprofits that serve immigrants, the homeless, and more. But when supervisors ratified the record $16.9 billion two-year budget last month, one longtime homelessness nonprofit still took a hit. Hospitality […] The post Tough…
Among recent signs of San Francisco’s downtown revival, this one stood out: a deadline. Planning Director Sarah Dennis-Phillips last month warned dawdling developers to hurry up and break ground on approved commercial projects, or else the city might penalize them in favor of new proposals. After years of fear that downtown spaces would sit vacant […] The post Music Mogul’s Empty Downtown Bank Is…
On the 4th of July, San Francisco’s fog put a damper on an historic fireworks show. Adding to the summer bummer was a traffic meltdown, with stalled Waymo robotaxis in the middle of it all. The fiasco included long lines of Waymos blocking cars, shuttles, and Muni buses on one of the busiest days on […] The post Waymo Behavior Now Harder to Decipher, Even After July 4th Fiasco appeared first on…
Rachelle “Rocky” Henley has been chasing baseball dreams since the 1970s. She went from being the only girl on South San Francisco’s Little League team to covering third base professionally for the Colorado Silver Bullets. In 2014 she founded the San Francisco Bay Sox, now the largest all-girls baseball program in the country. Henley is […] The post New Women’s Pro Baseball League Debuts, And This…
San Francisco has more than 200,000 residents who rely on Medi-Cal, California’s public health insurance for low-income residents. City officials say at least 25,000 of them could lose coverage in the next year and a half. Mayor Daniel Lurie and other local leaders have known this was coming ever since Republicans in Congress passed HR […] The post SF’s Healthcare Safety Net Only Covers Some…
This year’s contest is over. Thanks to everyone who played. The answers are below, and we’ve also included one fun fact for each that we learned from you. Thank you! And congratulations to our top five scorers: Howard Wong, Laura, James Maher, Tom, and Sam Dodge! Don’t miss our next contest! Sign up for our […] The post Where In SF 2026 appeared first on The Frisc .
San Francisco has long been ground zero for calls to build more affordable homes. In recent years those calls have been amplified by the city’s new housing blueprint, approved in 2023, which requires making room for more than 40,000 below-market-rate units this decade. But the bottom line casts a long shadow over this demand. It […] The post Affordable Housing Will Be All Over SF’s Ballot This…
Market-rate rents in San Francisco have jumped nearly 20 percent in the past year, and there’s little sign that a years-long drought of new homes will end soon. In short, the latest tech boom is driving demand ever higher, and supply isn’t close to catching up. “The narrative around the AI boom is ‘San Francisco […] The post SF Evictions Are Up, No Matter Who You Ask. Then It Gets Complicated…
