[1] Its pages were filled with news on homelessness, social programs affecting the area's residents, immigration, neighborhood history and other topics.
[2][3] Its investigative reports on issues such as the death of homeless people on San Francisco streets and the high rate of pedestrians hit by cars in the neighborhood were often picked up by mainstream media.
[4] One page was devoted to poetry written by Tenderloin residents and participants in a weekly writing workshop held at Hospitality House in the neighborhood.
Starting in 1985, the paper was published in four languages: English, Lao, Khmer and Vietnamese - reflecting the ethnic diversity of the neighborhood's residents.
[1] Rob Waters, later a freelance journalist and a reporter for Bloomberg News, and Sara Colm, now a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch,[6] worked as editors.