Can San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello learn how to lose?

WASHINGTON — For the folks actually living it — players, staff, coaches — Major League Baseball is a binary endeavor. That’s the case for all professional sports. The sun rises. A game happens. You win or lose. Either way, the sun sets. Yes, there can be silver linings in defeats or sour tastes after victories, […]

How to get better designs for new housing in S.F.

Sidell Pakravan Architects’ light-filled proposal for a six-story single-stair building in San Francisco won second place in the National Single Stair Architectural Design Competition. Rendering by Sidell Pakravan Architects It used to be quite common to build lovely mid-rise, medium-sized apartment buildings throughout San Francisco. The San Francisco Planning Department’s 2024 Housing Inventory Report showed that […]

How to turn off Instagram’s new limits on political content

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place. As part of an initiative Instagram announced last month, the […]

This is how to make homelessness policy work

Late last month, the world watched something extraordinary: San Francisco cleaned up its homeless mess, practically overnight. Unfortunately for residents of that city, it wasn’t for them. The quick cleanup was a courtesy to the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and 20,000 other visitors to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. And it was only a temporary […]