Joe Eskenazi

Former staffers' statements are first on-record allegations of compromised appointment process of Stephen Sherrill by London Breed.

Mission and Francis Streets. Photo by Joe Eskenazi.

How a kid who grew up in a Pennsylvania funeral parlor went from gay rights activist to S.F. political kingmaker

Is the proposal to slash taxes on big real-estate deals a bad idea? Not necessarily. Are its backers being honest about it? Not necessarily.

Voters in five counties will have chance to vote on sales tax measure to prevent BART austerity — or shutdown of transit agency altogether

In a bit of transit news even better than learning the liquid you sat in is only water, the group organizing to put a five-county BART rescue measure

If voters rebuke Lurie on Prop. D and dump one or both of the sitting supervisors, a mayor who has walked on water would have to learn to swim

An astonishing 44% of early votes are from San Franciscans aged 65+. Will enough voters cast a ballot to balance that out? Vamos a ver.

And, at last, the early results are in. The first tranche of San Francisco votes is 100,817 ballots, representing just shy of 19 percent of the city's registered voters.

Landslide election results point to a changed San Francisco