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12 Dec, 11 tweets, 4 min read
My latest: Why does San Francisco have a profession called “permit expeditor”? Why has the Department of Building Inspection been caught up in City Hall’s corruption scandal? Why does it take so freaking long to get a building permit? Read on for answers! sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
After diving into the incredibly complex, tangled, confusing San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, I told my editor I needed a column expeditor to help me write this. 🤪
Remember my column on Jason Yu who wants to open an ice cream shop in the Mission but has been thwarted by the city again and again? I checked back in. Does he have his permit from DBI now? Nope. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Thanks for reading! 🙏🏻
I’m not the only one, but we sure do need more people calling out this ridiculous, unfair system.
Perfect example. Why is this ok???
Only in San Francisco. 🤯
This is not OK. I’ve heard lots of stories about the city caring an awful lot about windows. Why???
Thank you! There’s no shortage of broken, dirty corners here.
Yes please do! Sfchronicle.com/subscribe #SupportLocalJournalism
Building accessory dwelling units is another common theme of massive frustration in San Francisco. Even though city officials say they’re an answer to our housing shortage, they make it insanely difficult to build them. 😡

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4 Dec
BREAKING: Bay Area counties to adhere to Gov. Gavin Newsom's phased statewide shutdown starting at 10 pm Sunday. Dr. Grant Colfax says we have one week to slow the #coronavirus in San Francisco before hospitals reach capacity.
San Francisco will run out of ICU beds on December 26 at the current rate of hospitalization. Santa Clara will run out of beds by next week. "We will not have enough nurses and doctors to adequately care for people," Colfax says.
San Francisco will receive 12,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the next couple of weeks. Will go to healthcare workers and those at nursing homes.
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29 Aug
My latest: Jeffrey Choate was trained in prison to fight fires, but now that he’s been released, he’s not allowed to become a firefighter because of his criminal record. Even as wildfires rage in his home state. It’s a ridiculous Catch-22 that must end. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Readers may remember Jeffrey Choate from a column last year tracing his sad journey from a Tenderloin sidewalk to a San Quentin prison cell. Today’s column continues to follow Jeffrey’s story through a Fort Bragg fire camp and home to his mom. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
This column recounts the first time I met Jeffrey Choate. He was passed out on a Larkin Street sidewalk with needles strewn around him. He was on the losing end of San Francisco’s refusal to do anything about its dangerous open-air drug market. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
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11 Jul
My latest: San Francisco’s 55,000 public school kids will learn mostly from home on the computer this year. Distance learning didn’t go well in the spring, but the district has given teachers no additional guidance on how to make it successful since March. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
The San Francisco school district and teachers’ union haven’t even begun talking about major issues like how many hours teachers will work per day and how much teaching they’ll need to do in real-time versus videos and links. And this is with 5 weeks to go before school starts.
And the city has no details on how much childcare it can offer to kids whose parents must go to work or when they can sign up. Meanwhile, scores of parents told the district in an online town hall their top concern is kids being left home alone all day.
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10 Apr
BREAKING: San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces 70 people at the city's largest shelter, MSC South, have tested positive for Covid-19. She called it an outbreak.
This is why it's been so problematic that City Hall hasn't come up with a quick, decisive plan for its homeless population during the #CoronavirusPandemic. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Mayor Breed is imploring people via a virtual press conference to stay home this weekend despite anticipated good weather and Easter Sunday. She said small gatherings can easily spread the virus. #StayAtHome
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6 Apr
Dr. Grant Colfax says San Francisco’s ICU beds have increased from 277 to 530, a 91% increase. He says the city still expects a surge in #coronavirus cases and that the shelter-in-place rules have bought time to prepare. Regular hospital beds have increased by 52%.
Dr. Colfax also said the SF Dept. of Public Health will start providing more #coronavirus data, including the demographics of patients with Covid-19, on its website within days. Here's our story on how Bay Area data has fallen short: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
San Francisco has secured 883 hotel rooms to house critical first responders including healthcare workers who need somewhere to rest between shifts or don't want to risk exposing their families to the #coronavirus.
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14 Mar
My latest: A lot of Bay Area life has ground to a halt. Is that really necessary? Yes. San Franciscans living in Milan are pleading with their friends and family here to take the #coronavirus seriously to avoid the fate of Italy, now on total lockdown. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
“People have to stop thinking about this as an economic crisis. It’s life or death.” — @amandakfried, whose dream Italian sabbatical was ended by the #coronavirus. Listen to her crucial report from Milan before her family opted to leave the country. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/san…
“We can’t be Italy,” said Dr. Andre Campbell, SF General’s @TraumaDocSF, noting hospitals there are so overwhelmed with #coronavirus patients, they can’t properly treat other emergencies like heart attacks and strokes. Hear ways to #FlattenTheCurve here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/san…
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