Bay Area plea

Re “Newsom makes it official by Tweet,” April 22

I hope The Times will send someone to San Francisco to do some investigative reporting on conditions in our city now that our mayor, Gavin Newsom, has announced his gubernatorial candidacy. Your reporter would find a significant decline in the quality of the city’s life during Newsom’s tenure, deterioration in many neighborhoods and ineptitude in the running of many city agencies.

There are many eye-opening stories to tell here. Unfortunately, our local newspapers are no longer capable of doing first-class investigative work on conditions at City Hall.

You might win a whole new group of readers who are hungry for real news reporting about San Francisco.

Arthur Evans

San Francisco