San Francisco commissioner resigns in scathing letter to Mayor Breed after exposing city's squalid conditions

By artappraiser on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 1:40pm |

San Francisco commissioner resigns in scathing letter to Mayor Breed after exposing city's squalid conditions https://t.co/7KtW5nE5if
— J. W. (@wolfjon4) August 31, 2023

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-commissioner-resigns-in-scathing-letter-to-mayor-breed-after-exposing-city-s-squalid-conditions/ar-AA1g22oe

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The San Francisco Standard article is here:

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/28/san-francisco-official-behind-doom-loop-tour-resigns/

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 1:50pm

A shame - Dismal and seemed like such a promising idea

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 6:47pm

City of anarchy?

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 10:10pm

What’s really messed up is most of us are law abiding citizens. We pay our fair share and more. We pay tolls, insurance, and registration. We pay for goods and services. As we watch people doing the complete opposite. They don’t pay tolls, no plates on cars, blacked out windows…
— Stanley Roberts (@StanleyRoberts) August 31, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/01/2023 - 3:13am

Star Trek knows where to put a new city in California pic.twitter.com/OrIlfyVkVq
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 1, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/01/2023 - 3:25pm

San Francisco's new Total Wine & More store in the SoMa neighborhood has not said why the new fence was erected. https://t.co/T6VlInU65X
— The San Francisco Standard (@sfstandard) September 3, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/03/2023 - 5:08pm

The storied retailer's owner tells The Standard the upcoming holiday season could be its last in the city's embattled Downtown. https://t.co/mZQeU3HfKt
— The San Francisco Standard (@sfstandard) September 3, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/03/2023 - 5:12pm

But they're fixing it

Thank god there’s a sign I have nothing to worry about now pic.twitter.com/PcR13pI01R
— Danny Polishchuk (@Dannyjokes) September 5, 2023

(prolly violates 2A anyway)

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 12:28am

Ignore the 'good job liberals' part and check out the video; for whatever reason it happened saddens me personally more than SF, I really loved this nabe:

The death of West Hollywood. Good job, liberals. pic.twitter.com/NuVahIFikS
— Storm (@stormrobinson) September 5, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 8:11pm

No doubt similar for my Venice/Santa Monica haunts, but I and everyone knows about Downtown LA

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 12:42am

Newsom says California will intervene in court case blocking San Francisco from clearing encampments https://t.co/InxqxEjUuT
— Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal) September 13, 2023

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/13/2023 - 12:04pm

Going back to SF from Singapore is...a transition.

Having dinner in a neighborhood spot, and there was someone clearly having a mental health episode inside while loitering.

Nobody, not clients or staff, do anything. Wild to live in a place where social norms are just gone.
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) September 16, 2023

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/16/2023 - 2:58am

I think the west coast situation is mostly downstream of the 9th Circuit’s idiosyncratic encampment jurisdiction that has Dem politicians begging the Supreme Court to step in and overrule them. https://t.co/tLs0njZprn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 24, 2023

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/25/2023 - 3:15am

Really hard to escape the conclusion that no city has more solvable problems than San Francisco.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 4, 2023

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 1:32am

Starbucks to close 7 San Francisco locations in coming weeks

People have short memories if they think that California will always be a Democratic "lock"; think Reagan, Schwarzenegger. This kind of thing won't be tolerated much longer, and the backlash won't come from conservatives: it will come from fed-up normies.https://t.co/AkD0YIALFG
— japecake (@japecake) October 5, 2023

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 10:41am

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