Emilio Garcia-Ruiz

From rising seas to expansive droughts to ever-more-dangerous fire seasons, there has...

When we launched SFNext two years ago, our goal was to convene community members for robust conversations about the challenges facing the city. This would allow residents to have their voices heard in the form of solutions they would propose for how to fix their community. Today, after meetings that included more than 1,000 of you, we deliver on that vision. We are publishing 10 proposals crafted by residents who spent months studying specific issues, researching potential solutions and compilin…

To our readers: Hundreds of San Francisco residents gathered in a productive, daylong conversation about solving the city’s problems? Journalists spending 18 months risking their own safety to report on how drugs are sold in San Francisco? The best digital weather team in the Bay Area keeping you and your family safe? None of this work by the Chronicle in 2023 would have been possible without you. Thanks to our subscribers, we have a robust newsroom that takes on ambitious, game-changing project…