When your insurance company decides you didn’t have a health emergency
At the UCSF Emergency Department, doctors are seeing a dangerous trend: insurers refusing to pay for care after the…
Governors of this one religion have held a bully pulpit in California
Pope Leo XIV and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attend the international climate conference in Albano Laziale, Italy, in…
I’m a California judge, here’s how to fix our mental health crisis
Floyd, left, and Lulu, second from right, use drugs in San Francisco in 2024. Many people with substance…
Why Republican attacks on SF school Superintendent Maria Su fell flat
San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su testifies during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on parental…
Crocker Amazon’s baseball fields are a disgrace
Baseball diamonds at Crocker Amazon Playground will be renovated under plans to create a youth sports facility at…
Trump’s claims of ‘rigged’ California election are a practice run
On social media and on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” President Donald Trump is claiming with no evidence that…
California elections are open sewers of big money. Here’s the fix
A voter enters a polling location in San Francisco on Tuesday. Elections are awash in big money. Real…
Trump opposes Northern California national monument’s protected status
Medicine Lake Sáttitla Highlands National Monument Courtesy of Heather Bourbeau Sáttitla Highlands National Monument Courtesy of Heather Bourbeau…
San Francisco should make billionaires part of the solution
To mobilize private resources to help San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie is enlisting corporate leaders through initiatives like the…
In the California governor race, Steyer learns money can’t buy love
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer enters a waiting vehicle after casting his ballot for the June 2…
How Trump changed the stakes of California lieutenant governor
Columnist Joe Mathews, pictured in 2018, when he still wanted to be lieutenant governor. Santiago Mejia/S.F. Chronicle My fellow…
How San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences dies
The California Academy of Sciences, pictured in 2019, is laying off 53 employees amid a financial crisis. It’s the…