Adam Shanks

3 weeks ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

The San Francisco Parks Alliance has all but vanished, but city legislators plan to force its leaders to appear — and answer questions. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors were scheduled to examine the San Francisco Parks Alliance on Thursday, just hours after the organization’s rapid downfall reached its nadir. But legislators opted to hold off on holding a full hearing and subpoena officials from the troubled nonprofit to appear at a hearing and turn over a slate of financial documents.

3 weeks ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks |Greg Wong

Clinging to the walls of Black Bird Bookstore and Cafe are some of the works of Richard Sexton, a photographer who captured the colorful streets and scenes of the Outer Sunset in the 1970s. To Supervisor Joel Engardio, it’s all right there — in Sexton’s photographs, such as the one depicting the long-shuttered Doggie Diner, evidence of the unstoppable flow of time and certainty of change.

3 weeks ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Adam Shanks |Greg Wong

Clinging to the walls of Black Bird Bookstore and Cafe are some of the works of Richard Sexton, a photographer who captured the colorful streets and scenes of the Outer Sunset in the 1970s. To Supervisor Joel Engardio, it’s all right there — in Sexton’s photographs, such as the one depicting the long-shuttered Doggie Diner, evidence of the unstoppable flow of time and certainty of change.

3 weeks ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

Cull vacant positions, cut back nonprofit funding, reshuffle homelessness funds — and protect police at all costs. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie declared that The City is entering a “new era of responsible budgeting” as he unveiled a $15.9 billion budget on Friday, but many of his administration’s tactics at least ring familiar. So what’s different? The political climate in City Hall has certainly changed.

4 weeks ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced a $15.9 billion city budget proposal Friday closing a nearly $800 million two-year deficit. To do so, Lurie proposed several overhauls to city government, including eliminating more than 1,000 city jobs and scaling back the use of one-time funding sources to make ends meet, according to preliminary budget information released by the mayor’s office Friday.