Kevin Truong
@kevinbtruong
I'm the business editor @SFStandard. You can reach me at [email protected]. DMs open and off the record.
Just in: After eight years, SF Police Chief Bill Scott is stepping down. 📝: Jonah Owen Lamb sfstandard.com/2025/05/07/pol…
New: SF city attorney warned a planning commissioner about voting on projects involving her past employer she continues to get income from. She ignored them. sfstandard.com/2025/07/15/san…
aaron kyro and his wife have together donated more than $1 million to the church of scientology. if he had the cash for those big donations, why couldn’t he keep his business afloat? new from @Sam_Mondros and me in @sfstandard #skatetwitter sfstandard.com/2025/07/09/you…
Labubu lovers, rejoice: A new location of a wildly popular Chinese toy store is coming to Union Square. sfstandard.com/2025/07/08/pop…
Breaking: A San Francisco official gets paid up to $100K a year by an architecture firm while approving its projects on the planning commission. sfstandard.com/2025/07/03/san…
We ranked every restaurant at SF's best mall, from Supreme Dumpling and Le Soleil to Onigilly and Shake Shack. Here are the best — and worst — things to eat at Stonestown Galleria. 📝: @lhsaria, Astrid Kane, @kevinbtruong, and Sara Deseran sfstandard.com/2025/07/03/sto…
With its robotaxis being vandalized and torched amid recent ICE protests, Waymo has instituted a no-go zone that will likely stay in place through the weekend. See the map: 📝: @kevinbtruong and @reeyopeeyo sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/way…
Your Monday AM must-read: @reeyopeeyo on how two young coders came to San Francisco looking to improve government — wait for it — through tech, only to join DOGE within two years and gut it. "The U.S. government didn’t and couldn’t work like a startup." sfstandard.com/2025/06/02/dog…
New: An influential SF nonprofit handed out bonuses to its top employees while its finances were in the gutter. sfstandard.com/2025/05/20/san…
NEW: Life goes on for Jeffy Yu, despite his obituary. The crypto bro livestreamed his suicide on Sunday. But by Wednesday, @allaboutgeorge found him alive at his dad's house in SF. sfstandard.com/2025/05/08/jef… @sfstandard
Thank you, Adam Schefter.
White smoke: A new Pope has been selected. He soon will appear at the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica.
EXCLUSIVE: SFMOMA is laying off 39 workers today, a majority of whom are part of a union that is in active bargaining talks with management. sfstandard.com/2025/05/07/sfm…
In her first major address since losing the presidential race, Kamala Harris called the Trump admin “reckless" and “self-serving” while casting the White House as authoritarian and corrupt. @ggreschler on the scene in SF: sfstandard.com/2025/04/30/kam…
Exclusive: San Francisco is quietly preparing for a war with Trump, sending confidential memos to city workers about communications re: the feds and a review of all DEI-related programming. W/@Josh_Koehn sfstandard.com/2025/04/28/don…
New: Return-to-work for thousands of SF city employees will be delayed. sfstandard.com/2025/04/21/dan…
NEW: Uber officials sent a scathing letter threatening a lawsuit against San Francisco the same day Mayor Daniel Lurie announced a deal giving Waymo access to Market Street. The mayor's team has been doing damage control meetings since then. Exclusive 👇 sfstandard.com/2025/04/21/san…
“Maybe If this happened last year, the slow start and slow spring training, I probably wouldn’t be here right now.” Tyler Fitzgerald (HR, 3B, 2B) praises Posey administration’s faith in Giants players vs. the “shorter leash” they were kept on previously: sfstandard.com/2025/04/14/gia…
When Steph Curry's team announced abruptly that they were killing their Dogpatch project, the universal reaction was shock. @KevinNguyen_89 and I got the story of what happened to the deal and the furious efforts to salvage it sfstandard.com/2025/04/12/ste…
Zero Triball has terrorized the Castro for years. His neighbors want him locked up. His family says he can still be saved. Why can't the city stop him? 📝: @tomoki_chien sfstandard.com/2025/04/11/zer…