Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history