Emily Hoeven

To survive, BART needs us all to be more social. Young people want that, there just aren’t enough places and opportunities for them to come together.

With California under a microscope, everything its elected officials say or do matters. There’s no margin for error — let alone corruption. 

San Francisco should never have prioritized regulating plants and tables at a struggling small business above fixing a dangerously cracked sidewalk up the block

A beloved Nob Hill cafe is at risk of going under due to a 311 complaint and San Francisco’s Kafkaesque permitting rules.

California gas prices could increase following a key vote from the state air resources board.

Back in May, eye-catching advertisements warning about firefighter cancer rates started popping up across San Francisco. What was really behind the ad blitz? 

Mark Farrell says you can trust his campaign finances. A surprise trip to his office left me wondering

With voters facing yet another confusing and conflicting November ballot, a new report from SPUR offers 8 recommendations to improve S.F. governance.

Guillaume first reached out to me to show that men can also be victims of domestic violence. His story has since become an international incident.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders really, really don’t want California voters to approve a November ballot measure to roll back parts of Proposition 47, the controversial 2014 initiative that reduced some theft and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. In fact, they’re so desperate to prevent the measure from succeeding that they’re willing to subvert and twist the very process they claim to revere more than anything else — democracy — to achieve their aims. Newsom and…