Meet Margaret Graf. At 84, she runs the group Senior Power that advocates for great living in the golden years. It’s her fourth career, including being a nurse, mother, and lawyer. Margaret broke many glass ceilings in the 60 years since she arrived in San Francisco in a VW bus and made a home across from the Great Highway.
Read MoreSunset parent Lisa Nowell is on a mission to help reduce the isolation and stress that new parents often experience. She also offers their babies a creative playspace — and some recess time for the moms and dads to enjoy with each other. The mission is to create community.
Read MoreMeet Pastors Joy Yee and Jim Dant. They lead the 19th Avenue Baptist Church with a progressive and inclusive approach for all Sunset residents. Beyond offering Bible study and Sunday services, the church focuses on volunteer work the rest of the week to fulfill the needs of our community. They offer free yoga classes, too.
Read MoreA retired construction worker puttering in his garage had a big idea to put his chainsaws to creative use. A series of benches carved from fallen Monterey Cypress trees have transformed the parkland along Sunset Boulevard by bringing neighbors and strangers together.
Read MoreDid you know the big terracotta-roofed building on Vicente Street in the Sunset was once home to the San Francisco Orphan Asylum? That’s what it was called a century ago. Today it's still there. Now called the Edgewood Center for Children and Families, it is the Bay Area's oldest provider of behavioral health services for youth and teens. And it’s poised to tackle some of the present day’s biggest challenges when it comes to mental health.
Read MoreToo many skateboards were piling up in front of the secretary’s desk at A.P. Giannini Middle School (kids aren’t allowed to roll down the hallways). So a handy parent solved the gnarly problem with some ingenuity welcomed by school staff.
Read MoreI believe San Francisco’s best days are ahead. We deserve to live in a city that works. Here’s how.
Read MoreDo you still believe in San Francisco? I do. I’m running for supervisor to create our best San Francisco.
Read MoreIs it possible to create housing in San Francisco that isn’t controversial? Pierce Smith and Ed Taylor discovered a way to quietly meet their housing needs while avoiding the city’s fierce political battles over where and what to build.
Read MoreWhen we’re forced to work and attend school from our kitchen tables, a shaky internet connection at home is as frustrating as driving down a bumpy road. City Hall is supposed to fill potholes. Perhaps it’s time to add fiber infrastructure to the list of essential municipal services. Fiber in every home would benefit everyone and give our local economy a boost in a post-pandemic world.
Read MoreThe Neighborhood News Network interviews Joel Engardio about what City Hall must do to save small businesses in San Francisco.
Read MoreTriangle Park and many more forgotten mini-parks like it throughout our city have a new relevance in the pandemic era. That’s why now is the time to get the Triangle Parks of San Francisco into shape.
Read MorePolice departments must implement rigorous training and only hire police officers who will serve everybody at the highest standard. This requires investment. San Francisco's police department has put a lot of work into reforms in recent years and has made much progress. That's why defunding or disbanding SFPD would be reckless. This is the time to remake, reimagine and reinvest in policing that keeps everyone safe.
Read MoreA radical change in our attitude toward business is needed if we want local merchants to survive beyond coronavirus — and keep our city from spiraling into irrelevance. Small businesses were going extinct in San Francisco long before the pandemic turned everything upside down. City Hall’s excessive fees, regulations and bureaucracy are to blame.
Read MoreHundreds of San Franciscans signed our petition asking Stonestown Mall to offer its parking lot as a coronavirus testing site. Their voices were heard and we’re continuing the petition to advocate for even more expanded testing.
Read MoreWe need to ramp up coronavirus testing. We need a safe place to get tested while practicing social distancing. What if we turned the giant — and mostly empty — parking lot at Stonestown Mall into a drive-thru testing site? Sign the petition to make it happen.
Read MoreThe uglier national politics get, some seek solace in local matters. But what happens when local concerns end up feeling as divisive as the national ones? Two women trying to beautify San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood offer some inspiration and cautionary tales.
Read MoreIf presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg can pick a running mate as well as a husband, America will be in good hands. It’s just one of many impressions from my lucky dinner with Pete and Chasten Buttigieg.
Read MoreIf a defendant is re-arrested awaiting a court appearance, the sheriff needs to know. Yet she often doesn’t because San Francisco lacks a fully interconnected criminal justice database that shares information in real time. After 20 years and tens of millions spent, will City Hall ever get it to work?
Read MoreMerchant corridor doctor Vas Kiniris has a prescription for San Francisco’s historic West Portal: Embrace the future. “Millennials run the world now. But the rest of us can still be active participants in contemporary life. We can be perennials — always growing and blooming.”
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