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Meet the District 9 candidates: Name an issue affecting Bernal
Welcome back to our “Meet the Candidates” series, where we ask the District 9 supervisorial hopefuls in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology and more in 100 words or fewer. Answers are being published individually each week,...
Meet the District 5 candidates: What are your thoughts on encampment sweeps?
Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, in which we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. Four candidates are challenging incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston to represent District 5, which spans from the east end of Golden Gate Park through Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and the Western Addition, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, and most of the Tenderloin.
Explore: Who are San Francisco’s voters?
For the first time ever, voters in San Francisco will elect a mayor on the same day they will select a president. Far more residents are likely to head to the polls to participate in the local election compared to previous years. But what does San Francisco’s electorate look like?
Meet the SF ‘Worker Protection Team’ targeting corporate scofflaws
This week, Qwick, a platform for hospitality staffing, will send an initial payment of $750,000 to 6,500 California workers whom it incorrectly classified as independent contractors. Moreover, as part of the settlement, ultimately set at $2.1 million, those workers became employees at the end of June, with full rights and benefits.
At Dolores Park hill bomb meeting, crowd asks: Why so little, so late?
The speakers at the community meeting were split on Monday night: Half said the San Francisco Police Department should shut down the “hill bomb” before it starts, ensuring there is no vandalism or property damage from skaters who will, in all likelihood, flock to Dolores Park this Saturday for the annual, unsanctioned downhill event.
Security deposit limited to one month’s rent across California
When Assembly Bill 12 goes into effect on July 1, 2024, most landlords can no longer charge more than one month’s rent as a security deposit. Before, landlords could charge up to two months’ rent for unfurnished properties, or three months’ rent for furnished properties. The bill...
See How They Run: Aaron Peskin at the Pride Parade
Mission Local is publishing a daily campaign dispatch for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Aaron Peskin. Read earlier dispatches here. “Stephen, I know you used to cut hair,” says Sunny Angulo, chief of staff for Aaron Peskin....
Balaji Srinivasan, VC pushing dystopian vision of SF, gets a crowd but produces a dud
Saturday night’s event, which was billed as a look at “the changing global political order” and technologists’ place in it, wasn’t quite as disastrous as President Joseph Biden’s appearance in the first debate. But as duds go, it came close. Almost 900 people registered...
See how they run: Farrell, finally, names three drag queens
Mission Local is publishing a daily campaign dispatch for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Mark Farrell. Read earlier dispatches here. One streetcar, three drag queens, seven helium tanks, 80 volunteers and 10,000 strings of beads. “We take...
See How They Run: Aaron Peskin taught me my first swear word
Rhinestones and earnestness at the Harvey Milk Club LGBTQ Democratic Club Gayla. Mission Local is publishing a daily campaign dispatch for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Aaron Peskin. Read earlier dispatches here. The Harvey MIlk LGBTQ Democratic...
Mexican Museum courts donors amid financial troubles
On a recent Thursday night, the unfinished Mexican Museum at the base of a housing complex in Yerba Buena Gardens hosted a museum walkthrough and reception to woo donors and raise the $27 million needed to finish renovations. It’s unlikely that this event alone met that goal, but Andrew Kluger,...
See how they run: Farrell meets his supporters in the Outer Sunset
At the West Sunset Playground at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, over 100 people were gathered around picnic tables for what looked like a children’s birthday party. There were cookies (white chocolate, chocolate chip, oatmeal). There were bubbles. There were balloons. There was a Spin the Wheel and a line of children waiting to play — and potentially score a cup of boba tea, a T-shirt, a small toy, or a low-maintenance house plant.
‘From Stonewall to Palestine:’ Bay Area groups boycott SF Pride
The 2024 SF Pride Parade will be led by a contingent honoring Pride’s legacy as a movement grounded in resistance — back when bricks crashed through windows at Stonewall and cop cars burned outside of the Elephant Walk bar. But some local organizers believe resistance this year goes beyond queer issues.
Dolores Park fills up and Dyke March goes on
Thousands gathered in Dolores Park Saturday afternoon despite the abrupt cancellation of the official Dyke March earlier this week. That too went on. Koja Ray, who is on the new five-person planning committee formed after the Dyke March organizing team disbanded earlier this year, said this afternoon that a march was likely.
Here’s what to see at San Francisco museums this summer
One exposition that aims to push the envelope is “Into View: New Voices, New Stories,” which presents 2D, 3D, mixed-media, and literary pieces, all twisting legends, stereotypes, historical scenes, and styles to challenge societal norms. It raises the voices of women and queer artists of color. This exhibit runs through August 5 at the Asian Art Museum.
District 7 candidates: Do you support converting the Great Highway into an oceanfront park?
Welcome to “Meet the Candidates,” where Mission Local asks supervisor hopefuls questions in the lead-up to the November election. In District 7 — which includes the Inner Sunset, Parkmerced and West Portal — Matt Boschetto and Stephen Martin-Pinto are running against incumbent Myrna Melgar. Voters will...
San Francisco’s basic income program for trans people to end after cuts, conservative lawsuits
San Francisco’s basic income program for transgender residents — one of two known guaranteed income programs catering to queer people in the country — is ending this month after budget cuts and lawsuits from conservative groups alleging the program illegally prioritized Black, Indigenous, and Latino applicants. Since...
At the San Francisco Trans March, we asked: What brings you joy?
The 20th anniversary of the Trans March on Friday brought hundreds to the Women’s Building and Dolores Park, for a day that started with a brunch and ended with an evening march. A long line formed early on at the screen printing stall, where posters and shirts adorned with...
San Francisco Harley-Davidson closes abruptly after 110 years
When Christopher Weber clocked in to his job as a mechanic at San Francisco’s historic Harley-Davidson dealership at 3146 Mission St. last Saturday morning, he expected a typical work day. But, by closing time, Weber said he and over a dozen co-workers were abruptly let go. Without warning, the...
See how they run: Art Agnos also thought Aaron Peskin was a pain in the ass
The former mayor also thinks Daniel Lurie would make a good son-in-law Art Agnos first met Aaron Peskin in the late 90s. “I didn’t like him,” says Agnos, echoing a statement made by Willie Brown a week ago. “He was a pain in the ass.”. At...
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