THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2024
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The Reynolds effect
by John Zipperer
Editor in Chief, The Voice of San Francisco
I’ve known Voice co-founder and Editorial Director Susan Dyer Reynolds for almost 15 years, and for about 12 of them I edited her column in the Marina Times newspaper. If you have read her Reynolds Rap columns or followed her on social media, you know she’s dogged in pursuing corruption, she’s a champion of the underdog — and of course, she’s a champion of dogs, especially pit bulls.
Tens of thousands of people follower her on X (the artist formerly known as Twitter), and she runs the Voice’s X account, too. (Feel free to follow both.) I’m not sure how she finds the time to do all of her social media work, meet with sources, research her articles, and write her Reynolds Rap columns and her extensive roundup articles she calls her “Three-Bat” columns. But I’m glad she does.
You can get started with her latest three-batter below (“Family Affairs”), and you’ll get a good sense of why she has developed such an extensive following among people who want to make San Francisco a better place. And if you can’t get enough of Susan, then keep your eyes peeled (or ears, as the case is) later this summer when she guest hosts John Rothmann’s daily Voice podcast.
But we’re not all-Susan, all-the-time. We’ve got daily and weekly podcasts, news reports, profiles, movie reviews, cartoons, and much more. Read on below . . .
Top News
Family affairs
OPINION
by Susan Dyer Reynolds
We have quite a few scooplets in this week’s Three-bat, with plenty happening around Gotham by the Bay and beyond, including another no-bid contract going to the S.F. Bike Coalition amid calls for director to step; a new poll in the hotly contested mayor’s race showing incumbent London Breed behind former mayor Mark Farrell — and District 11 supervisor Ahsha Safaí losing to “someone else.” But first, the FBI raid on the Oakland Hills home of Mayor Sheng Thao may be causing sleepless nights for California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his assemblywoman wife, Mia. Meanwhile, despite a mass shooting at a Juneteenth celebration near Lake Merritt, the mayor remains missing in action.
Following the Lake Merritt mass shooting, Oakland’s embattled mayor remained M.I.A. for five days, before appearing at an impromptu press conference that not even her attorney, Anthony Brass, was aware of until he heard it from the media (hours later, he withdrew as Thao’s counsel). In her short appearance, Thao alternately cried, yelled, spouted conspiracy theories, and defiantly refused to step down. She said a recall trying to oust her was funded by “billionaires from San Francisco and Piedmont who are hell bent on. […]
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Out and About
What to do this week in San Francisco
By Lynette Majer
Managing Editor, The Voice of San Francisco
Thursday, June 27
Tickets are already selling fast for the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Tony award-winning musical Evita, which opens tonight at the San Francisco Playhouse. So here’s your heads-up. If you’d like go but don’t get on it, we won’t cry for you. Through Sept. 7. Tickets from $30.
Friday, June 28
Don’t miss the largest Pride flag in the world, spanning 4.1 miles down Market Street and consisting of 20 lasers to celebrate 20 years of marriage equality. Brought to us by those awesome folks who light the Bay Bridge and the Pink Triangle, Illuminate. Dusk to dawn through Sunday. Free viewing.
See more upcoming events online.
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- John Rothmann: The civil Grand Jury…a possible cure for some of the ills facing San Francisco
- John Rothmann: From Waymo to the Mayor’s race, who’s really in the driver’s seat?
- Politics, pandas, closings and side shows with John Rothmann
- The Voice Weekly: Dr. Deepak Srivastava talks with Melissa Caen and John Zipperer
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