The vast majority of restaurants in San Francisco have been vandalized in the last month, a new survey suggests.
The survey by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association found that of 74 respondents to a survey of restaurant owners in the city, just 3 percent said they had not experienced vandalism or property crime in the last month.
Drug users are upset with the San Francisco city government after the mayor proposed drug tests be required for recipients of welfare.
“It’s our choice to use if we want to use,” resident Amy Brown said of the policy, which Democratic mayor London Breed proposed this week as a measure to fight the city’s homelessness and crime epidemic that’s causing businesses to flee.
Chicagoans are seeing a variation on the saying, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” playing out in the city. Areas of the city are being labeled as “food deserts” because there are no grocery stores nearby, and residents only have themselves to blame.
According to ABC7 in Chicago, “In the past five years on the South Side, store closings have included a Whole Foods, two Targets and three Walmarts.” These are stores that would generally be considered too large to fail, but they are struggling with maintaining profitability.
For years, San Francisco deli owner and community advocate Adam Mesnick has been demanding a public debate with Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness. Mesnick’s home and business are located in the city’s beleaguered South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, and he runs an X account, @bettersoma, to call attention to the city’s humanitarian crisis and document the encampments and sickness, blight and criminal activity, garbage and human waste—and most importantly, the thousands of deaths, overwhelmingly due to drug overdose.
Target Corp. will shutter nine stores across four states on Oct. 21 because of theft and crime, the company announced Tuesday.
Target said it made the “difficult decision” to close the stores — which include locations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Seattle, Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area — after the Minneapolis-based company tried ineffective theft-preventive measures. The company tried adding more security, including third-party guards, and used theft deterrents like locking up merchandise.
When Illinois ended cash bail this week, many who have been following the news about crime rates in Chicago got a sinking feeling in the pits of their stomachs. One can only imagine the celebrations taking place at the HQ where all of the muggers, mass retail thieves, and gangbangers hang out.
This should squash any beefs.
A Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant has reopened for business — now with assault rifle-carrying guards because of violent crime plaguing the City of Brotherly Love.
A video from the reopening of Jim’s West Steaks & Hoagies in West Philadelphia on Sunday shows customers lining up to order sandwiches under the watchful eye of heavily armed security guards.
What’s the state of America’s crippling drug epidemic?
Look no further than the Emerald City, known for the Space Needle, hip coffee shops and, of course, meth and fentanyl killing historic numbers of locals.
If you dare ride public transit in Seattle, you’re nearly guaranteed to be exposed to these vile, soul-crushing poisons.
Stores fleeing from rising theft will leave residents in cities like New York with fewer places to shop, less merchandise to buy, and higher prices to pay.
The rising social disorder and crime of the 1970s and 1980s drove out not only hundreds of thousands of residents from New York City, but also many businesses. Within a few years, entire communities lacked basic amenities like supermarkets and drugstores; empty storefronts littered shopping districts. That started to change only when crime began falling in the 1990s and neighborhoods rebounded—first in New York and then in other big cities—prompting national retailers to begin setting up shop in places that they had once avoided. Thousands of stores and tens of thousands of jobs blossomed in New York alone thanks to this retail revival. But those gains are vanishing before our eyes as rising retail theft is driving a new era of closings.
Toronto with Chow’s sales tax.
Out in San Francisco, things have not been going well at the massive Westfield Mall, to put it mildly. As with most of the rest of the city – and all of California’s larger cities, really – conditions have become untenable for most retailers. Rampant retail theft and filthy conditions have made the mall far less safe and have driven away potential shoppers, causing sales to sag. One of the few larger stores that haven’t thrown in the towel yet is American Eagle Outfitters, the iconic clothing shop.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a piece titled “Rising Rents Are Hitting American Suburbs Hardest,” outlining the wave of renters who have left the city for the suburbs over the past few years. This general exodus (which is ongoing) has notably increased the price of suburban rentals. The numbers are revealing …
Nike is based in Beaverton, Oregon, which is a substantial inner-ring suburb of Portland. It is the fourth-largest employer in the area and only one out of two large employers that is not a health care system.
At least 14 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 10:40 p.m. Friday at an apartment complex “in the 8000 block of South Hermitage Avenue.” A 44-year-old man was shot in the back and found in a hallway. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Democratic Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson this week blamed racism for criticism of the job he’s done in the first months of his administration.
“There is a different standard that I’m held to. There is,” Johnson said Tuesday, according to the Chicago Tribune. “And that’s not something that I’m mad at, but that’s just the reality. I’m not the first person of color, particularly a Black man, that will be held to a different standard than other administrations.”
Brandon Johnson is on course to be the Windy City’s most damaging leader in living memory.
Brandon Johnson has reached the 100-day mark as mayor of Chicago. His actions and statements in that time suggest that the city will face continued decline. He remains beholden to the group most responsible for his election: the Chicago Teachers Union. And when it comes to the twin dangers shadowing Chicago’s future—crime and fiscal irresponsibility—he has set the stage to make them even worse.
This is Toronto’s fate.
