NEW: SF's new head of public health helped sell opioids at McKinsey — the consulting firm that was later indicted and made to pay over $1B for its role in fueling the overdose epidemic sfstandard.com/2025/02/14/san…

Heartbreaking. By Eleni Balakrishnan missionlocal.org/2025/03/sf-jai…

One of the defining stories of San Francisco today. How the politics of harm reduction went from being championed during the AIDs crisis to vilified during the fentanyl era. Must read from @davidfortheppl and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/03/26/san…

Finally got my copy, eager to see what the fuss is about

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…

The activist behind the controversial ‘Downtown is for drug users’ campaign has died of an overdose. sfstandard.com/2025/04/15/dru…

It was an honor for The San Francisco Standard to be among the collaborators with The New York Times and The Baltimore Banner on their Pulitzer Prize-winning look at overdose deaths among Black men. Congrats to the winners! Now for @davidfortheppl Noah Baustin and George Kelly allaboutgeorge @ sfba.social & bsky to get their own.

street conditions in the tenderloin have transformed over the last couple years, but that doesn't mean the problems are solved. outstanding reporting and analysis from David Sjostedt in The San Francisco Standard sfstandard.com/2025/05/16/san…

Mayor Daniel Lurie is finally showing his cards on how he plans to fund his ambitious homeless shelter goals. The only hurdle: it might be illegal. 📝: David Sjostedt sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/lur…

ICYMI: Lurie’s master plan to fund homeless shelters is on shaky legal ground sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/lur…

Just in: SF official got paid by architecture firm while approving its projects “I think it will be a wonderful addition," Moore said of one of the projects while receiving money from the firm that proposed it. Scoop from Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler sfstandard.com/2025/07/03/san…

The new rules of SF’s drug markets / ✍️ David Sjostedt "It’s past San Francisco’s bedtime. The buses have mostly stopped running, and the skyline has dimmed. But many of the city’s drug dealers are just clocking in for work." sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/san…

"Despite a highly publicized crackdown that led to more than 7,500 arrests for drug use & dealing over the past two years, San Francisco’s notorious open-air drug market lives on — just at different hours." The real story on drugs in SF by David Sjostedt sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/san…

There’s few others that can write like David Sjostedt. A must read sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/san…

Exclusive: SF mayor Daniel Lurie spent millions of his own money to get elected. That spending hasn’t stopped, new records show. W/Josh Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/08/01/san…

Exclusive: A top policy chief for the SF mayor steered a contract to a company with ties to Daniel Lurie — and overruled city staff who preferred a cheaper option. w/Josh Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/10/15/san…

NEW: Mayor Lurie’s office has been accused of steering a $5.9M contract to OpenGov, a tech company w/ close $$ ties to his nonprofit. But Lurie & family also had investments in OpenGov, which was acquired last year in a $1.8B deal. ✍️ by Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler me sfstandard.com/2025/10/29/san…