Lashinsky: Lurie’s Muni bailout is a flawed deal. I’m voting for it anyway
Published Oct. 14, 2026at6:00am “This city has money.” So said Mayor Daniel Lurie in response to one of…
Lashinsky: Yes, we need less democracy in SF. Why I like Lurie’s charter reform props
On Nov. 3, San Francisco voters will be asked to pass judgment on no fewer than 25 ballot…
Lashinsky: Manny Yekutiel’s exit is likely for the best. That doesn’t make it any less sad
Published Oct. 2, 2026at6:00am I winced at the Manny Yekutiel story from the beginning. Maybe that was because…
Dear Chobani billionaire, bring back our beer or we boycott your yogurt
Published Sep. 28, 2026at6:00am Earlier this year, the yogurt billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya delivered a message to New York…
What transparency? Lurie’s sunny disposition masks his office’s opaque behavior
Not quite a year ago, Mayor Daniel Lurie hired Jessica MacLeod to a newly created position, chief of…
How Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Mamdani
It is tempting to believe the sun always shines on Daniel Lurie. That’s been the case, anyway, for…
Lurie survived and thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier
As last year wore on, I noticed a stunning sameness to conversations I was having about Mayor Daniel…
Daniel Lurie wants to take a scalpel to SF’s city charter. A hatchet would work better
San Francisco’s 540-page city charter is chock full of silliness, like requiring the SFMTA to run cable cars…
A childish spat is speeding to the ballot, and San Franciscans are caught in the crossfire
On the last day of October, organized labor launched a surprise attack on San Francisco’s business community by…
Voters wanted SF government to change. These powerful interests want the opposite
Last year, in one of the more brutal examples of San Francisco’s money- and time-wasting habit of holding competing…
Daniel Lurie’s bizarre, cynical pick for Sunset supervisor
Last week, Mayor Daniel Lurie stole a page from the script of the president whose name he refuses…
Daniel Lurie’s art of the deal
There was precisely one moment of levity during Mayor Daniel Lurie’s somber-yet-satisfying noontime press conference Thursday afternoon. The…