EXCLUSIVE: Adam Lashinsky got the deck Mayor Daniel Lurie’s team has been showing San Francisco’s wealthy donor class as he tries to raise $100 million to ramp up shelter beds. The BIG question: will throwing private 💸 at homelessness change anything? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0…

My latest column. Opinion: Exclusive: Inside Lurie’s $100M plan to get private donors to pay for homeless beds sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

It felt cathartic to interview a patriot like John Keker. Opinion: ‘Truly disgusted’: SF legal legend on Trump — and the law firms caving to him sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

Thank you for this, Reuters Breakingviews The former reality-TV host spent a week claiming other governments were clamouring to make a deal, and yet he folded without extracting any visible concessions from even penguin-populated trading partners.

My latest column for the San Francisco Standard: 100 days in, Daniel Lurie is still enjoying his honeymoon. Can he keep it going? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

Shakespeare fans: Here's a FREE opportunity to see scenes from the SF Shakes touring production of Romeo & Juliet, hosted by Downtown SF downtownsf.org/do/the-event-l…

A wonderful recounting of the life of my dear, late literary agent Esmond Harmsworth, who died too young. legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

Twitter people: discuss. The Dork Knight: How Garry Tan became Batman to SF’s tech geeks sfstandard.com/2025/04/24/the… via The San Francisco Standard

If you haven't dug into The San Francisco Standard's amazing SF100 power list yet, I highly recommend you do. You might well start here, with this remarkable, very short, biting essay that turns a mini profile of the Waymo "driver" into a metaphor for our times. sfstandard.com/sf-100/profile…

San Francisco transit agency lays off managers amid budget crisis sfstandard.com/2025/04/24/sfm…

To be clear, I would still consider voting for steve hilton. If he brings sensible ideas to California and cuts the MAGA nonsense, he'd appeal to many. If Steve Hilton wants to be California governor, he should ditch the MAGA baggage sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

By the way, I have a Substack. It is only a way to get a notification of everything I write. If my work is behind a paywall, which it usually is, you'll still have to pay. And I am neither accepting payments for my Substack nor doing original work for it. adamlashinsky.substack.com

Are big corporations who say they care about the civic life of San Francisco doing all they can to prove it? I think not. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

Here's my latest column in the The San Francisco Standard. Despite my advocating their cause, the Nordstrom comms team couldn't be bothered to engage with me. I wonder how badly they want to be in SF. [email protected] if you're listening. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0…

NIMBYs are blocking Nordstrom from opening a tiny concept store in a Fillmore storefront that’s been empty since before the pandemic. How? Peskin passed a law in 2006 giving them the power to do it. We have to undo everything Peskin did to freeze San Francisco in amber.

Thanks for the notes about the word "kvetchocracy" in my The San Francisco Standard column. It's the 2nd time I've used it. Previous credit goes to Jon Steinberg, who inserted it. Cory Johnson ⚡️ reminds me Paul Krugman long ago attributed it to a reader. Different context. tinyurl.com/3xa8wzch

Super fun article to start your weekend. There's hoe for our youth yet, eh? (And there's a highly personal angle here for me!) A phone-free prom night? These high schoolers asked for it sfstandard.com/2025/05/24/sf-… via The San Francisco Standard

My latest column. Takeaway: Fixing homelessness is hard enough with telling a mayor how to do it. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

San Francisco's mayor will do layoffs. But it's looking like his cuts will focus on eliminating vacant positions. Will that be enough? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard

I dug into the numbers in the SF mayor's first budget. Here's what I came up with. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/0… via The San Francisco Standard