We hear all the time how London Breed is working to pump some new life into downtown San Francisco. Pop-up stores, a new U.C. campus, an HBCU, switching offices to housing, maybe even a soccer stadium—you’ve got to hand it to Breed and her team for using their imaginations to do something that’s never been done before: reimagine downtown.

I thanked Gov. Newsom yesterday for the tremendous news that he’s sending 120 California Highway Patrol officers to help Oakland fight crime.

I finished reading “Hella Town,” Mitchell Schwarzer’s book on the history of Oakland development. For those of us who have lived in Oakland a long time and are familiar with most of its roads and neighborhoods, it provides a fascinating glimpse into how we got our physical infrastructure.

You may not have been aware of it, but yesterday, in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele was re-elected president in a victory he described as “the biggest difference between first place and second place in the history" of democratic presidential elections anywhere.

Those advocating for reparations need to explain why such large majorities of Californians and Americans strongly oppose reparations, especially in the form of direct cash payments.