a chance to see its beauty with their own eyes.

You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

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 has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.