Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

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Analyzing city data on homelessness, addiction, and treatment outcomes, The Standard highlights successes and remaining challenges one year into Mayor Daniel Lurie's signature Breaking the Cycle program. 📝: @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/03/18/lur…

New: Renaming re: Cesar Chavez already being suggested in SF. Assemblymember Matt Haney tells me he supports renaming Cesar Chavez Day (March 31 state holiday) to Dolores Huerta Day. w/@jonsteinberg31 @allaboutgeorge @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/03/18/ces…

NEW: Their names and faces are unknown to most San Franciscans. But these are the people who craft law, elect politicians, and run city-shaking strikes. Behold, the 37 most important SF union influencers. sfstandard.com/2026/03/12/san…

Their names and faces are unknown to many San Franciscans, but they craft law, elect politicians, and run city-shattering strikes. Here’s The Standard’s definitive power list of the city’s union influencers. 📝: @ggreschler and @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/03/12/san…

Scoop: Lurie orders elimination of 500 City Hall positions amid budget deficit w/@FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/03/02/san…

Live long and prosper, San Francisco! 🖖 This week, until Feb. 19, flash the Vulcan salute at Pier 39 shops to score free Star Trek swag in celebration of the franchise's 60th anniversary and new spin-off series. 📝: @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/02/15/sta…

Breaking: SF mayor 'requested' PG&E restore power to opera before daughter’s ‘Nutcracker’ performance. At a hearing about December’s blackout, PG&E's CEO said Lurie pushed for power at the opera. **The company is now disputing its CEO's comments.** sfstandard.com/2026/02/12/pge…

With the district and union deadlocked over pay raises, educators are gearing up for their first strike in a half-century. 📝: @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/01/26/sch…

Dreadful news about job cuts at @washingtonpost. If you're an ambitious reporter interested in telling killer stories about the intersection of tech and politics, @theinformation has a great job opening. Please apply. ats.rippling.com/theinformation…

Controversial SF Judge Michelle Tong 唐加玲 to face challenge in June election sfstandard.com/2026/02/03/jud…

Driving to the Sunset Dunes town hall and what is this @googlemaps? No wonder west side drivers are so pissed because they are driving into the sea.

@Grim_Otaku also didn't work for me. i just plugged both into a DC controller and copied files on the console

Has anyone got the vmu 2 vmu feature to work on the #VMUPro ? It just hangs on this progress bar

Nick’s Lighthouse is no longer in its iconic location across from the Fisherman’s Wharf crab sign, after its owners were found guilty of bribing port officials. 📝: @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2025/11/26/nic…

EXCLUSIVE: Saikat Chakrabarti, a progressive tech millionaire who is running to succeed San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Congress, has spent years claiming that a Maryland home is his principal residence, according to a property, mortgage & tax filings. sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/sai…

Connie Chan is running to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress. “This is an unprecedented time,” Chan said. “The very people that need our protection are being attacked by the government.” More from me, @ggreschler and @Josh_Koehn: sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/con…

New: City watchdog launches inquiry into SF Mayor Lurie’s controversial OpenGov deal sfstandard.com/2025/11/19/san…

Mayor Lurie on the blowup of his appointed Sunset supervisor resigning one week into the job: “This is not the first time I’ve done something wrong; it won’t be the last. But what I commit to the people of San Francisco is: I’m going to learn from this.” sfstandard.com/2025/11/14/sf-…

New: During former SF Supervisor Beya Alcaraz’s appointment, she shared a tale of waiting 6 months and spending $1,000 for approval of a shed at her store. There is no shed. sfstandard.com/2025/11/15/san…

@lihanlihan nothing happened! quiet few weeks.

Had an amazing month in Asia visiting family, friends, and traveling. Happy to be back in SF and hope I didn’t miss much news!

How does a District 4 supervisor get ordained, then excommunicated in just over a week? Unpacking Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz’s rapid rise and fall, based on interviews with City Hall insiders. 📝: @ggreschler, @FitzTheReporter, and @Josh_Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/11/15/san…