Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Looks Back on 2020 and Shares Plans for Future By Supervisor Rafael Mandelman– (Editor’s Note: With this piece we welcome back the voice of Rafael Mandelman, who for several years was a popular San Francisco Bay Times columnist. While he stepped back from the column and other projects to assume his present role as Supervisor of District 8, we always welcome his words in the paper. Thanks to his team, especially Legislative Aide Tom Temprano, for making letters like this possible.) Hello, Bay Times Readers, 2020 is nearly over, and I am sure that all of us are happy to see it go. We have grappled with a global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires up and down the West Coast, orange skies in San Francisco, a national uprising against systemic racism and police violence, and the most consequential election of our lifetimes—and there are still a couple of weeks left in the year.