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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · 20d

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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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · 23d

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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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Aug 18

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?

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Jul 24

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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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Jun 17

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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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Jun 3

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.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · May 29

Opinion: Daniel Lurie’s budget-by-fire sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Daniel Lurie’s bad-answers-only budget - The San Francisco Standard

Does he squander goodwill with necessary cuts? Or kick the can down the road with accounting trickery? Either way, budget season may end in tears.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · May 28

Opinion: These supervisors have a good idea to fight homelessness. The mayor should reject it anyway sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | These supervisors have a good idea to fight homelessness. The mayor should reject it anyway

A bill by Bilal Mahmood and Shamann Walton seeks to spread the pain all over the city. Daniel Lurie wants to gut it — for good reason.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · May 19

Opinion: The Nordstrom follies: How bad laws and whiny neighbors are slowing SF’s comeback sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | The Nordstrom follies: How bad laws and whiny neighbors are slowing SF's comeback

Opposition might keep a prime retail space from being filled. It's another example of the city's out-of-control kvetchocracy.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · May 12

Opinion: Are school closings back on the table? Maria Su is ready for the conversation sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion | Are school closings back on the table? Maria Su is ready for the conversation

A sit-down with the SFUSD superintendent as she passes the six-month mark of her nearly-impossible job.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · May 5

I don't think anyone would disagree that getting the biggest employers in SF to return to the office more days a week is necessary for downtown revitalization.
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Opinion | Daniel Lurie's corporate 'partners' need to get serious, put butts in seats

The mayor is cajoling reluctant city workers back to their municipal cubicles. Now he needs to push his friends in the corporate world to do the same.

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adamlashinsky.bsky.social @adamlashinsky.bsky.social · Apr 28

My latest column in The San Francisco Standard

If Steve Hilton wants to be California governor, he should ditch the MAGA baggage sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...