The death of Thrasher Mag editor Jake Phelps shook the skateboard community over three years ago and is still hard to speak about for many. But now for the first time, his family and close friends talk publicly about what killed him.

RT @ggreschler: Exclusive: SF mayor Daniel Lurie spent millions of his own money to get elected. That spending hasn’t stopped, new record….

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

RT @ggreschler: There’s few others that can write like @david__sjos. A must read

RT @Josh_Koehn: "Despite a highly publicized crackdown that led to more than 7,500 arrests for drug use & dealing over the past two years,….

RT @hannahcwiley: The new rules of SF’s drug markets / ✍️ David Sjostedt. "It’s past San Francisco’s bedtime. The buses have mostly stopped….

Just in: SF official got paid by architecture firm while approving its projects. “I think it will be a wonderful addition," Moore said of one of the projects while receiving money from the firm that proposed it. Scoop from @ggreschler .

ICYMI: Lurie’s master plan to fund homeless shelters is on shaky legal ground.

RT @sfstandard: Mayor Daniel Lurie is finally showing his cards on how he plans to fund his ambitious homeless shelter goals. The only hurd….

RT @low___impact: street conditions in the tenderloin have transformed over the last couple years, but that doesn't mean the problems are s….

RT @jeffbercovici: It was an honor for @sfstandard to be among the collaborators with @nytimes and @BaltimoreBanner on their Pulitzer Prize….

The activist behind the controversial ‘Downtown is for drug users’ campaign has died of an overdose.

RT @Josh_Koehn: EXCLUSIVE: @adamlashinsky got the deck Mayor Daniel Lurie’s team has been showing San Francisco’s wealthy donor class as he….

Finally got my copy, eager to see what the fuss is about

RT @KevinNguyen_89: One of the defining stories of San Francisco today. How the politics of harm reduction went from being championed durin….

Link to the audit:

A new audit has found what we reported three years ago: 300 SF health department employees were holding secret side jobs. These employees came fwd after our investigation into a DPH director making six-figures from a city-funded nonprofit w/o approval.

Heartbreaking. By @miss_elenius .

RT @AnnieGaus: NEW: SF's new head of public health helped sell opioids at McKinsey — the consulting firm that was later indicted and made t….

RT @ggreschler: Exclusive: SF’s new public health chief — who has been tasked with fighting fentanyl — once helped market an opioid for McK….

RT @GerryMcBride: Wow what an incredible breakthrough in the most useless fucking horseshit this world has ever seen.