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Man killed in broad-daylight shooting following brawl at 16th St. BART Plaza
Following a fight at the 16th Street BART Plaza late Wednesday afternoon, a man was shot and taken away by an ambulance with life-threatening injuries, according to the San Francisco Police Department. Mission Local learned in a police news release on Thursday morning that the victim died of his wounds....
Glass workers’ Mission picket attracts political crowd
Several dozen glaziers picketed today outside Golden Gate Glass at Folsom and 16th streets, banging cowbells and gongs, beating paint-bucket drums, and pounding their signs on the metal plates in the sidewalk. District Council 16, which represents glaziers across northern California, has been negotiating for higher wages with the Northern...
Five of the six D3 candidates express disapproval of the Biking and Rolling Plan
Between February and the November election, Mission Local is asking each District 3 candidate one question per week, and candidates will get 100 words to respond. We will compile all responses to the 40-odd questions on a “Meet the Candidates” page, so that voters can get a full picture of their stances.
See how they run: Safaí, the stair-master, knocks doors in the Mission
At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, seven campaign staffers for Ahsha Safaí were getting ready for some door-knocking at their 22nd and Mission headquarters. “Ahsha for Mayor” T-shirts were neatly folded on the table, waiting for volunteers to take home. Later, the campaign staffers would all change into one before they broke into four groups and headed to two precincts in the Mission, carrying light blue tote bags in fruit and beach prints with window signs and door hangers.
Meet the Candidates: SFUSD school board contenders on balancing the budget
Welcome back to the “Meet the Candidates” series for the school board, where we ask each candidate one question every two weeks. They must answer the question in 100 words or less. We will link to longer answers. Twelve candidates are vying for four seats on the city’s...
When someone is arrested, hospitalized, or dies — what happens to their pet?
When San Francisco medical examiners arrived in mid-July to deal with a tenant who had died alone in his Pacific Heights apartment, they noticed a brown tabby cat, hidden underneath the sofa bed’s mattress, watching them carefully. They called Animal Control Officer Carlos Ortega, who soon arrived with a...
Mayor London Breed — and entourage — tour Mission businesses
Mayor London Breed’s canary yellow campaign signs preceded her as her entourage made its way down 24th Street today. As they walked, the group – including campaign staff and volunteers holding large posters aloft – visited local businesses in the Mission that had been scouted ahead of time by Joshua Arce, a longtime Breed ally whom the mayor appointed head of workforce development in 2018. Arce is a Mission resident, and unsuccessfully ran for the District 9 supervisor seat in 2016.
Meet the District 9 candidates: Who do you support for DA?
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,...
SF city attorney bars ‘predatory’ Auto Towing from getting city contracts
Auto Towing, a company in Hunters Point that profited from illegally towing parked cars, has been barred from getting city contracts in San Francisco for the next five years. The move by City Attorney David Chiu comes almost a year after Chiu first initiated debarment proceedings against the firm. It allegedly targeted “vulnerable” Spanish- and Cantonese-speaking residents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities, as Mission Local reported last summer.
Mission high schoolers discover life in the Presidio — and want changes in District 9
Each morning, 15-year-old Max Trujillo boards three different Muni buses to get from his home in the Mission to his Presidio private school. Peering out the window, Trujillo said he feels like he’s entering another world. The stark difference between the two environments never sat right with him. The...
Meet the District 5 candidates: What’s up in The Fillmore?
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.
See how they run: Tensions brew between Safaí, Peskin over ballot measures
Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here. Two supervisors running for mayor spatted over a potential proposition today, with Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin...
Breaking down the school board group endorsements
With few voters directly involved with San Francisco public schools — less than one-fifth of the city’s voters have children and even fewer send those children to public schools — a candidate’s endorsements play an outsized role in getting elected in a down-ballot race like school board, said retired political consultant David Latterman.
Meet the ‘transport queens’ saving thousands of Central Valley pets from death
Tabitha “Tabby” Ross pulls her van to a stop in front of an abandoned building in an Emeryville shopping mall. After 11 hours on the road, she springs into action, sliding the side door open to reveal a Tetris board of bungee-corded crates stacked three high. Forty-six dogs and five cats sit inside.
Kamala Harris: In vibes-based election, her appeal will trump her record
The Democratic Party has wrapped its monthlong summerstock review of “Julius Caesar” — Et tu, Nancy? — and a parade of upwardly mobile would-be candidates is rapidly lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Everyone, it seems, loves a parade. The nation and the party are...
Police kill armed man in Tenderloin, SFPD’s first fatal shooting of 2024
San Francisco police shot and killed an armed man last night during a robbery investigation in the Tenderloin area, according to a statement from the police department. Video obtained by the San Francisco Standard showed a police officer shooting the man from behind as he fled down the street. The man’s name was Beto, but most called him Nicoya, said Juan Baros, who was standing on Willow near where the shooting occurred last night.
See how they run: Safaí receives love — mostly — on his home turf
Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here. It was classic summer San Francisco weather in the Excelsior on Sunday — gray and foggy with gusts...
Will SF public school closures save money? Not much. And not quickly.
At the beginning of “Fiddler on the Roof,” when Tevye is introducing the audience to the denizens of Anatevka, a student asks the rabbi if there’s a proper blessing for the czar. “A blessing for the czar?” asks the bemused rabbi. “May God bless and keep the...
See how they run: Lurie, Frankie the dog, court voters on Clement Street
Rola Johnson, the owner of the butcher shop A K Meats at 2346 Clement St. in the Central Richmond, had her mind set on Mark Farrell for mayor. Already, she had posted the signature orange sign of “Mark Farrell For Mayor” at her checkout counter. Then, in walked Daniel Lurie. He noticed the sign. No matter.
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