Zach Slobig

@SFPublicPress @GreatHwyPark @JoelEngardio @openthegreathwy @sf_cadc @maryjungsf @RecallEngardio @Scott_Wiener @RecParkSF @SFMTA_Muni Is there a false equivalency dynamic here? The Great Highway has never been anything remotely comparable to a freeway.

FYI: @GreatHwyPark @JoelEngardio @openthegreathwy @sf_cadc @maryjungsf @RecallEngardio IF SPACE: @Scott_Wiener @RecParkSF @SFMTA_Muni

For some Chinese Americans in SF, the controversy over the Great Highway closure resurfaced memories of lost battles decades ago to preserve or retrofit freeways. sfpublicpress.org/not-just-the-g…

For back to school, wrote about a lead poisoning disaster in Oakland and the vision of integrated public schools. Can we actually expect parents who have other options to stay in struggling districts? newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…

And shoutout to @eddiekimx for his reporting on the far right fringe characters stoking 'culture war' division on this sf.gazetteer.co/gret-highway-p…

Solidly reported piece on the adjacent possible of the Great Highway—a remarkable opportunity to build a unique public space on a strip of roadway that borders national park land at the edge of a dynamic city that too often resists change. Yes on Prop K 🗳️

Hello! I wrote a novel last year, just to see if I could do it, just for fun. Now I'm serializing it--for free! It's called, "Gondos: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture Gondos." gondos.substack.com/p/introducing-…

The reimbursement rates are often so poor that some therapists now consider working in-network for an insurer to be almost like community service projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the…

Can't wait to read this book, @carrieching

Tune in right now to hear the Olympics commentator for surfing sound check by repeating "bubbles, bubbles, bubbles" over and over, before competition begins, with roosters crowing in the background 🏄‍♀️🫧🐓

Four hours, 44,000 Black women and one Zoom call 19thnews.org/2024/07/win-wi… via @19thnews

It’s still the signature sound of my SF neighborhood. Grateful to be in a rare refuge for this “lost sound.”

@EricKlinenberg @NYUSociology Slim's Table

Preparing the syllabus for an Urban Ethnography doctoral seminar this spring at ⁦@NYUSociology⁩. It’s been a minute since I last taught this. What else needs to be here? #SocTwitter

For #GivingTuesday2023, I looked at the inflation-adjusted wealth of long-time Giving Pledge billionaires today vs. the year they joined (a decade or more ago.) The results only added to my feeling that the pledge is a bit of a scam. motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

@RadioMirage My first week at NPR West, I was so nervous and turned a corner way in the back of the building and heard his voice, so familiar from growing up listening in the 80s, and I think I said, “wow you’re Mike Shuster.” A couple chatty minutes with him and my nerves settled.

Thank you for taking the time to help me when I was just learning how to be a journalist. I’ll never forget how kind you were. Rest in peace, Mike. npr.org/2023/11/08/121…

@DylanLathrop Very be careful my friend

the indescribable power of holding a big jar of hooch on your birthday

@pfimrite The crime blotter alone—that lovely west Marin fever dream—is a national treasure.

The famous Pulitzer Prize winning publisher of the Point Reyes Light has died. Here’s the hilarious story about his battles with the new publisher after he sold the paper: sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

@JeffBradach That moon!

SanFrancisco❤️

From @IamCoraDaniels, one of my co-conspirators at @BridgespanGroup, a clear-eyed take on what's keeping funders from meaningfully engaging in the reparations movement. philanthropy.com/article/why-is…

@lmillernpr They’re a special bunch, that’s for sure. Here’s an oldie/ goodie youtu.be/JiEi59gm0io?si…

if i could write a poem it would be about the surfers of lake michigan

Fascinating story by @DoranyPineda90 on the link between racist redlining and avian diversity in L.A. County. Whiter, wealthier neighborhoods tend to have more bird species than lower-income communities of color with fewer trees and less vegetation cover: latimes.com/environment/st…

Extraordinary! The founding and trajectory of so many organizations were shaped by his generosity. @BridgespanGroup would not exist but for Chuck Feeney, Harvey Dale, Joel Fleishman, and @atlantic philanthropies. Immense gratitude. RIP.