It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is eroding not because of […]
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Biden and XI to meet in San Francisco this week
The last time China’s leader, Xi Jinping, visited the United States was in 2017. Back then, trade friction was heating up between the U.S. and China but had not yet become a full-blown trade war. Former President Donald Trump touted “great chemistry” with Xi. President Biden, by contrast, has vowed to “vigorously” compete with China. […]
Bill stops employees from confronting shoplifters
Lawmakers in California are hoping to push through controversial legislation that would ban retail staff from stopping thieves stealing from their stores. Senate Bill 553, which was submitted by State Senator Dave Cortese, has been passed by the State Senate and will now progress to policy committees in the State Assembly. Cortese hopes the proposed […]
San Francisco Biz Owners Call City ‘Zombie Apocalypse’
San Francisco residents and business owners told Fox News Digital that the city has changed in recent years, with many giving personal stories of drug addicts laid out on the streets and violent assaults. One resident, Seema Gokhale, who lives near the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and has been the city for almost a […]
San Francisco’s Reparations Proposal: Nearly $600,000 Per Household
Last week, San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee submitted a proposal to the city’s Human Rights Commission that would pay every eligible African American adult living in San Francisco $5 million. The report calls for 18 other financial recommendations, including the cancellation of personal debts, annual income supplements for 250 years, and the conversion […]
Much of San Francisco an ‘Open Air Drug Market’
Ricci Wynne stepped out of his home in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood and witnessed a typical sight: masked drug dealers dressed head-to-toe in black as addicts act erratically — if they’re not slumped over. And the bus stops, he said, have been “hijacked” as open-air drug markets. “I pay $2,500 a month for a […]
SF Law enforcement robots may use lethal force
Should robots working alongside law enforcement be used to deploy deadly force? The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is weighing that question this week as they consider a policy proposal that would allow the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to use robots as a deadly force against a suspect. A new California law became effective […]
Pelosi attacker had list of targets
The suspect in the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi had a list of people he wanted to target, law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation confirmed to CBS News. David Wayne DePape, the man accused of beating Paul Pelosi with a hammer inside his San Francisco home overnight on Friday, may […]
Paul Pelosi attacker shouted, ‘Where is Nancy?’
Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco by a male assailant early Friday morning, law enforcement sources told CNN. The assailant who attacked him was searching for the speaker of the House, according to a source briefed on the attack. The […]
Nancy Pelosi’s husband ‘violently assaulted’ after break-in
he husband of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been “violently assaulted” after a break-in at their California home. Paul Pelosi, 82, was taken to hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, a spokesperson said. The attacker, who has not been named, is in custody but a motive for the attack […]
San Francisco reverses course on Defund the Police
From coast to coast in 2020, liberal politicians pledged support for defunding police departments following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. San Francisco Mayor London Breed was among the politicians in major cities that joined the chorus of leaders diverting funds from police that summer, only to reverse course the following year. “We will […]
San Francisco DA Boudin booted by voters
Voters in San Francisco have chosen to recall embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin following a recall effort centered on his handling of rising crime across the city. San Francisco voted to recall Boudin with 61%, compared to 39% who wanted him to stay as the district attorney, according to results at the time the Associated […]