Gregory Thomas, The San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2022 During the height of San Francisco’s pandemic lockdown, San Francisco’s hottest neighborhood for tourists — Fisherman’s Wharf — was eerily lifeless. But catch Fisherman’s Wharf on a sunny weekend afternoon this summer and it’s nearly as busy as it was pre-pandemic, when San Francisco was enjoying…
Kate King, Into Pacheo, Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2022 Hotels, still riding a surge in pent-up demand for leisure travel, are struggling to find enough workers to keep properties running smoothly. Hundreds of thousands of hotel workers have left the industry since the pandemic. There were about 1.7 million accommodation workers employed nationwide in June,…
J. K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 2022 As a former assistant district attorney and the head of San Francisco’s Office of Cannabis, Marisa Rodriguez has little on her resume that would have made her a natural fit to oversee the Union Square Alliance, the business improvement district that handles the city’s center of…
Eric Ting, SFGATE, July 8, 2022 After being sworn in as San Francisco’s new district attorney at City Hall on Friday afternoon, Brooke Jenkins —appointed by Mayor London Breed to replace the recalled Chesa Boudin — traveled to her new office building to hold her first meeting with around 25 senior staffers. Multiple people in…
Mallory Moench, Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2022 Mayor London Breed picked former prosecutor Brooke Jenkins to be San Francisco’s next district attorney following a historic recall that ousted Chesa Boudin from office two years into his term. Jenkins quit her job in the district attorney’s office to campaign against her former boss, becoming…