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The pragmatist and the socialist: How Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Mamdani sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...
How Daniel Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Zohran Mamdani
Two mayors, two speeches, two modes of leadership: Assessing what Daniel Lurie got right — and what topics he avoided — in his big 2026 address.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
The pragmatist and the socialist: How Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Mamdani sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...
Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...
Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier
Few predicted his popularity or the speed with which he has altered the city’s narrative. But his accomplishments could be fleeting.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...
Lashinsky: My answers to 11 questions that will define the city in 2026 sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Adam Lashinsky’s San Francisco predictions for 2026
Will Daniel Lurie stay popular? Will voters kick out incumbents? Will OpenAI dive bomb? Adam Lashinsky peers into his crystal ball.
sfstandard.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Lashinsky: My answers to 11 questions that will define the city in 2026 sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie wants to take a scalpel to SF’s city charter. A hatchet would work better sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie needs to clean up San Francisco city charter
The sludge-filled city constitution needs a generational cleaning. We’ll see if the mayor’s willing to do the dirty work.
sfstandard.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Daniel Lurie wants to take a scalpel to SF’s city charter. A hatchet would work better sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
A childish spat is speeding to the ballot, and San Franciscans are caught in the crossfire sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
A childish spat is speeding to the ballot, and San Franciscans are caught in the crossfire
After labor unions floated a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations, a business coalition is preparing its own prop. It’s San Francisco in-fighting at its worst.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A childish spat is speeding to the ballot, and San Franciscans are caught in the crossfire sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice
In naming Alan Wong, Mayor Lurie passed on making Natalie Gee D4 supervisor, but Sunset voters may not when given the opportunity to vote in June and November. Gee is qualified, but is a pro-labor pro...
sfstandard.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds
Thanks to Supervisor Connie Chan and organized labor, the tired political turf wars are revving back up — and grand compromises are being trampled.
sfstandard.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson with Beya Alcaraz fiasco
The debacle over the mayor’s Sunset supervisor appointment was a humiliating self-own — one that began months before he ever heard the name Beya Alcaraz.
sfstandard.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie’s bizarre, cynical pick for Sunset supervisor sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie’s bizarre, cynical pick for Sunset supervisor
By appointing an unqualified, inexperienced candidate to the Board of Supervisors, the mayor is acting like the president he dare not name. It may come back to haunt him.
sfstandard.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Daniel Lurie’s bizarre, cynical pick for Sunset supervisor sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie’s battle against city bureaucrats has only just begun sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie’s battle against city bureaucrats has only just begun
When the administration steered a contract to a firm with ties to the mayor, it wasn’t playing favorites. It was showing who’s in charge.
sfstandard.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Daniel Lurie’s battle against city bureaucrats has only just begun sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie’s art of the deal sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Daniel Lurie’s art of the deal
By playing to Donald Trump’s vanity while “very nicely” requesting he stay out of town, the mayor fended off a federal invasion.
sfstandard.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Daniel Lurie’s art of the deal sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
The audacity of Marc Benioff sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
The audacity of Marc Benioff
To distract from his National Guard comments, the CEO tried to get San Franciscans to believe Salesforce was growing its local investments. It’s not even close to true.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The audacity of Marc Benioff sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
The case against Prop 50 — and why I’m voting for it anyway sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
The case against Prop 50 — and why I’m voting for it anyway
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering effort is an abomination. But it illustrates just how dire the situation in this country has become.
sfstandard.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The case against Prop 50 — and why I’m voting for it anyway sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts
I called the mayor’s upzoning scheme “incremental.” Some readers were having none of it.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Lurie’s rezoning plan is radicalizing foes — even though there’s nothing radical about it sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Lurie’s rezoning plan is radicalizing foes — even though there’s nothing radical about it
The mayor’s “family zoning plan” is raising neighborhood advocates’ ire, despite it being modest, incremental, and necessary.
sfstandard.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lurie’s rezoning plan is radicalizing foes — even though there’s nothing radical about it sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
The sad truth of the Engardio recall: Democrats and Lurie hung an ally out to dry sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
The sad truth of the Engardio recall: Democrats and Lurie hung an ally out to dry
The moderate group that took over San Francisco’s Democratic Party did some weaselly stuff in an effort to avoid supporting Supervisor Joel Engardio.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The sad truth of the Engardio recall: Democrats and Lurie hung an ally out to dry sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Aaron Peskin’s successor wants to undo his legacy. At least one local merchant can’t wait sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Aaron Peskin’s successor wants to undo his legacy. At least one local merchant can’t wait
With one fell swoop, District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to clean out some of the legislative sludge his predecessor left behind.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Aaron Peskin’s successor wants to undo his legacy. At least one local merchant can’t wait sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
An SF committee chair wants to kill off her own commission. It’s a great start. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Prop E task force makes progress in cleaning up San Francisco's commission problem
San Francisco’s 130 advisory bodies and committees collectively cost $34 million to operate, an investment that’s getting harder and harder for City Hall to countenance.
sfstandard.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
An SF committee chair wants to kill off her own commission. It’s a great start. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
A politician wants to make it even harder to open a business. An ally made her think twice sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
A politician wants to make it even harder to open a business. An ally made her think twice
The scene that unfolded at a recent commission meeting gave me hope that sanity is beginning to prevail in San Francisco.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A politician wants to make it even harder to open a business. An ally made her think twice sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
SF schools chief wants focus on kids, not culture wars. If only it were so easy sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
SFUSD superintendent Maria Su faces a year of challenges
Maria Su is amiable, politically astute, and always on message. But will that be enough to save a school district on fire?
sfstandard.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
SF schools chief wants focus on kids, not culture wars. If only it were so easy sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Why do SF supervisors ‘suck at governing’? Here’s a prime example sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion | Why do SF supervisors ‘suck at governing’? Here’s a prime example
A board fight over outmoded contracting rules and a powerless citizen’s panel shows the city can’t break its old, bad habits.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Opinion: Why do SF supervisors ‘suck at governing’? Here’s a prime example sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: The missing details of Daniel Lurie’s homelessness pivot sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion | The missing details of Daniel Lurie's homelessness pivot
I asked the mayor's homeless czar to explain what success for their new plan looks like. His answer: We’ll know it when we see it.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Opinion: The missing details of Daniel Lurie’s homelessness pivot sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Daniel Lurie is taking exactly the right approach to Trump sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion | Lurie mum on Trump. Good!
It’d be more fun if Lurie teed off on Trump. But not better for San Francisco.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Opinion: Daniel Lurie is taking exactly the right approach to Trump sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Can tax-code tweaks keep businesses from fleeing SF? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion | Solid approach to business taxes in SF
Think business taxes are boring? You’re not wrong. But they’re important.
sfstandard.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Opinion: Can tax-code tweaks keep businesses from fleeing SF? sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: By caving to labor, Daniel Lurie fails his first big test as mayor sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion | By caving to labor, Daniel Lurie fails his first big test as mayor
He avoided angering the city's powerful unions by blunting the budget axe. But he may have missed a golden political opportunity.
sfstandard.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Opinion: By caving to labor, Daniel Lurie fails his first big test as mayor sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...