Noah Baustin

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Noah Baustin |Jonah Owen Lamb

Loitering bookings rose 150% in the first three months of 2025. The DA contends it’s a new strategy. Experts say it doesn’t work. Drug possession. Public intoxication. Resisting arrest. At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the claims San Francisco police levied against 44-year-old Chaz Burnett during two February arrests near 6th Street that landed him behind bars. But among those run-of-the-mill offenses was a far rarer allegation: criminal loitering.

1 month ago | hotair.com | Noah Baustin |Max Harrison-Caldwell

The Musk crowd, especially Tesla owners, loves a vanity plate. It’s a phenomenon from San Francisco to New Zealand. Team Tesla was known to use those plates to virtue-signal the superiority of its gas-free vehicles: BYBYGAS, CO2FREE, and NO PETRO have all been spotted in the wild.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Noah Baustin |Max Harrison-Caldwell |Michael McLaughlin

Forget bumper stickers: Drivers are working out their feelings toward the world's richest man on their personalized license plates. Yes, the DMV really printed these plates. | Source: Animation by Jess HutchisonForget bumper stickers: Drivers are working out their feelings toward the world's richest man on their personalized license plates. A few months later, Wei was back in Musk’s replies with new photographic proof: freshly printed DOGEGOV aluminum.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Gabe Greschler |Noah Baustin

Investigators revealed new details Thursday about an ex-San Francisco department head who allegedly enriched herself through a corrupt scheme of bribes and illegal gifts that went on for years. The city attorney’s office said that Sheryl Davis, who resigned as Human Rights Commission director, received tens of thousands of dollars from a city-funded organization which benefitted her personal business ventures, expensive travel, and her son’s tuition to UCLA.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | David Sjostedt |Noah Baustin

One neighborhood received different treatment than the rest of the city, an investigation by The Standard found. Timothy Simon’s view was almost perfect. From his Bayview hilltop balcony, he could see the downtown skyline, the glistening bay, and the Oakland hills in the distance. But in the foreground, for much of the last five years, was a line of RVs. He tried everything to have the persistent homeless encampment removed. He pestered cops, filed 311 reports, and lobbied City Hall.