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Joe Eskenazi

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
13
Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Mission Local
Top 500K sites
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joe Eskenazi

    An ugly day for San Francisco — and not just for Manny Yekutiel (opens the original)

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    The sexual assault allegations laid out against Manny Yekutiel in today’s San Francisco Standard are plausible and on-the-record and have induced a cavalcade of big-name endorsers to elbow past one another for the exits like a nightclub on fire. Yekutiel moments ago announced he will suspend his campaign, though he did not acknowledge committing assault. “I am deeply sorry for any boundaries that I crossed,” he wrote. “I’m going to take this time to work on myself.” This was, crucially, the seco

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Joe Eskenazi

    San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics (opens the original)

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    San Francisco is a pricey town; the $3 the 49ers paid for an egg during the Gold Rush days translates into well over $100 in today’s money. Money in politics has been prodigious for quite some time too. But a Rubicon of sorts was crossed this year when crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, apparently proactively, dropped a $500,000 donation into a PAC supporting District 10 supervisor aspirant Theo Ellington, the mayor’s pick. Ellington was already, far and away, the fundraising leader in this race.

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Joe Eskenazi

    Are autonomous vehicles and San Francisco development on a collision course? (opens the original)

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    Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above Don’t fence me in — Cole Porter and Robert Fletcher Listen: Fifth and Brannan has come unstuck in time. The first thing you notice in the gap between the opaque black fencing and the barbed wire are the oscillating lights atop scores of idle autonomous vehicles. As if by an occult hand, one ghost car after another is remotely summoned and glides to the exit. It is quickly replaced by a driverless vehicle returning to the Fifth and Brannan s

  4. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Joe Eskenazi

    S.F. homeless service providers must prove their programs work. S.F. permitting software, not so much… (opens the original)

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    Your humble narrator recently spoke to a San Francisco building inspector. It’s 2026, and, every day, he gives the contractors he’s dropping in on the same greeting a San Francisco building inspector could have delivered in 1926: “Permit, plans and job card, please.” For those of you old enough to remember when checking out a library book entailed stamping a paper card, that’s more or less what a job card is. It’s a literal piece of paper in which every one of the city’s many inspectors writes h

  5. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Joe Eskenazi

    San Francisco Democrats made a mockery of policing sexual misconduct (opens the original)

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    Brad Chapin alleges that aspirational District 8 supervisor Manny Yekutiel sexually assaulted him six years ago. Yekutiel denies this. Mission Local did not publish articles about Chapin’s claim against Yekutiel, which would be our procedure with most any single-sourced claim against any candidate. But when Chapin on Wednesday stood before the members of San Francisco’s Democratic Party during an endorsement meeting and described the process it used to “investigate” his allegation as a sham, tha

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