I'm both happy and sad to announce an important change at The Bay Citizen: I have stepped down as editor in chief, and my colleague Steve Fainaru will be taking over as interim editor in chief. I'm leaving to pursue a new opportunity, the details of which will be announced shortly. It's hard to believe that it's been only 18 months since I arrived in a temporary office as editorial ......

Judging by the very unscientific survey of San Francisco voters that we conducted last week, most people are not offended by interim Mayor Ed Lee’s decision to run for a full term after promising he would not. Lee’s political opponents are trying to make hay with the issue, but the general sentiment seems to be that a) people are entitled to change their minds and b) politicians are slippery as ......

Hamilton Nolan over at Gawker is most out of character this morning, giving Greg Mortenson, the famed school-builder, a pass on fabricating critical parts of his monster-selling memoir, "Three Cups of Tea." Strangely, Nolan also ignores the devastating article by Jon Krakauer that appeared the day after the 60 Minutes report that exposed Mortenson's deceptions (or, per Nolan, simply his sloppiness). Mortenson has built a non-profit empire devoted to school-building ......

We knew that Elizabeth Lesley Stevens' weekend column would provoke some lively discussion. Elizabeth used the story of San Francisco's Robert Kendrick, heir to the Shlage Lock Co. fortune, as an example of why our tax structure needs to change to make the rich pay more. We have posted a couple of formal letters to our letters page, you can read them here. There are also some comments posted on ......

At one point yesterday, as I was trying to get the latest on the Japanese nuclear crisis, I clicked over to the Wall Street Journal and the lead headline said "Officials Stabilize Damaged Complex." Immediately above that headline, in red, was a "Breaking News" alert announcing that "Another fire has broken out at the No. 4 reactor..." Not so stabilized after all, I guess. I don't mean to pick on ......