Mohammed Nuru’s penthouse: How San Francisco’s criminally charged ex-Public Works boss elbowed his way into a corner office

Mar 8, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

“In government,” says a longtime city mover and shaker, “real estate is king. And your office is...

Mohammed Nuru investigation: Files for the 555 Fulton project disappeared off the city’s computer system. Here’s how that happened.

Feb 17, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

If you’re working the front door at the Department of Building Inspection, it stands to reason...

Trickle-down corruption: Will local authorities ever prosecute local wrongdoing?

Feb 10, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

San Francisco fancies itself a sophisticated, cosmopolitan place. And yet, one of our senior...

Mohammed Nuru investigation: FBI visits San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, per multiple sources

Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Multiple sources have confirmed to Mission Local that, at around mid-day Wednesday, FBI officials...

Mohammed Nuru investigation: Alleged ‘CONTRACTOR 1’ worked out of building owned by ‘CONTRACTOR 2’ — Walter Wong

Feb 4, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A report from NBC Bay Area this morning identified the city contractor who allegedly bribed Public...

San Francisco’s toilet and kiosk contract with JCDecaux under investigation in wake of Public Works boss Mohammed Nuru’s arrest

Feb 3, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Multiple sources have confirmed to Mission Local that a long-running toilet and kiosk contract...

L’affaire Mohammed Nuru: Is San Francisco a dysfunctional government — or a functional cartel? Time to choose.

Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

“See, the problem in San Francisco too, the politics are just crooked, you know what I mean? And...

Federal complaint alleges bribery, corruption schemes from Public Works boss Mohammed Nuru

Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Mohammed Nuru faces 25 years for alleged corruption and allegedly lying to FBI about disclosing...

Housed and unhoused agree: Anti-homeless boulders won’t work

Sep 25, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

The arrival of twp dozen anti-homeless boulders on Clinton Park, a quaint residential street near Market and Dolores at the cusp of the Mission, has been met with varying degrees of outrage and acceptance in recent days. Yet the question remains: Do these rocks actually deter homeless encampments? Or are they simply a symbol of anti-homeless meanness?