David Sjostedt
@davidfortheppl
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Things happen and I write about them @SFStandard
Joined June 2019
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.
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RT @FitzTheReporter: Roughly 2,800 miles away in Hernando County, Florida, his mother, Mildred Batka, hasn’t heard from him in more than a…
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RT @Josh_Koehn: The mayor’s office and Lurie’s campaign would not clarify whether he made a mistake in saying he would end unsheltered home…
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RT @AnnieGaus: On the campaign trail, Daniel Lurie vowed to end unsheltered homelessness in 6 months. He hasn't mentioned it since. Tha…
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RT @ggreschler: NEW: Daniel Lurie vowed to end homelessness in 6 months on the campaign trail. An advisor tells @sfstandard that was a slip…
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NEW: 65,000 people in the Bayview and Ingleside are about to lose their last remaining pharmacies when Walgreens closes 12 stores in February. “It’s so unfair, it’s disgusting,” said a Bayview senior. BY: @leahygarrett @NoahBaustin & Beki San Martin
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RT @Josh_Koehn: An anchor hotel in downtown San Francisco received tens of millions to shelter homeless & make repairs to reopen post-pande…
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RT @KevinNguyen_89: Twitter's exit often gets cited as the death knell for SF's Mid-Market — but in reality, the 459-room Hotel Whitcomb ac…
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Just in: Grant Colfax, the director of San Francisco's Department of Public Health, has stepped down.
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RT @SF_PressClub: Today, San Francisco celebrates Kevin Fagan Day! After 32 years at the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Press Club board membe…
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San Francisco is losing a generation of Black men to overdoses at a higher rate than any city in the country. Read how the destruction of the city's Black neighborhoods has exacerbated this disparity:
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RT @EmilyDreyfuss: In collaboration with @nytimes, the @sfstandard poured through data and found that a generation of Black men are dying…
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RT @NoahBaustin: Black men born from 1951 to 1970 have represented 12% of all overdose deaths in SF in the past four years, but are less th…
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RT @KevinNguyen_89: Sit with this story. @davidfortheppl @NoahBaustin @allaboutgeorge, along with NYT, on how displacement/poverty, the war…
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RT @ggreschler: This @sfstandard / @nytimes collab is a great work of journalism by @davidfortheppl @NoahBaustin @allaboutgeorge Don’t mi…
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RT @JesseRogala: Stop what you are doing and read this devastatingly important article from @davidfortheppl @NoahBaustin and George Kelly.…
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RT @jeffbercovici: The overdose crisis has been particularly devastating for a single generation of Black men, and nowhere have the effects…
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RT @kevinbtruong: San Francisco's overdose crisis has wiped out a generation of Black San Franciscans. Read the story, learn the history,…
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RT @Josh_Koehn: The stories told in this joint investigation—led in this piece by SF Standard reporters @davidfortheppl, @NoahBaustin & @al…
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RT @susie_c: New from @sfstandard: One generation of Black men is dying of drug overdoses at an order of magnitude more than other demogra…
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