By Joel P. Engardio I was proud to stand with beleaguered parents and residents as we supported the recall of San Francisco’s incompetent school board. It was a landslide. About 75 percent of voters agreed that Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, and Faauuga Moliga had failed at their jobs. …

By Joel P. Engardio When the story is written about the historic effort to recall San Francisco’s school board, it must include the Chinese/API parents and grandparents who organized their community to vote for the first time. It’s a political earthquake in the making with no going back. Ann Hsu…

By Joel P. Engardio After being stonewalled by the district attorney’s office in San Francisco, a local journalist vented her frustration on Twitter. The outrage? She was trying to access records that should be publicly available. Annie Gaus, of the San Francisco Standard, asked for the disposition memos that reveal…

By Joel P. Engardio San Francisco has too few police officers for a city our size. City Hall commissioned a study on police staffing last year. It said we should have about 400 more officers to adequately cover our public safety needs. The police department needs to hire 100 new…

By Joel P. Engardio Are you familiar with the term gaslighting? It’s when someone with more power dismisses your concerns by saying the truth is the opposite of what you actually see. Good gaslighters can make you question your own reality. Are San Franciscans being gaslit? Ask parents who watched…

By Joel P. Engardio Much of the publicly available crime data in San Francisco doesn’t tell the full story, especially when it comes to domestic violence crimes. There were 131 felony domestic violence cases in the final quarter last year — and 113 were dismissed. …

By Joel P. Engardio My boyfriend died 20 years ago today. We dated for a year while he was healthy and then another year when he was sick with cancer. I held Mark’s hand as he took his last breath.

By Joel P. Engardio The latest list of Walgreens closures in San Francisco includes the infamous location at 300 Gough Street. …

By Joel P. Engardio A recall isn’t the only threat facing San Francisco’s school board. State education officials have warned that continued fiscal mismanagement will result in a state takeover of the school district. Yet the school board remains defiant. It doubles down on failed policies rather than making corrections…