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Follow the money: $22M raised for San Francisco election, majority in big gifts
It’s election season in San Francisco, and the money is pouring in: About $22 million has been raised for the November races so far, according to local filings, with much of that going into ballot measures and the race for the mayor’s office. x. About 69 percent of...
For graphic novelist Eddie Ahn, SF Zine Fest is where it all began
Eddie Ahn first set up a table at the SF Zine Fest in 2012, when it attracted a few hundred people to the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park. By day, he was starting out as a nonprofit lawyer, but for fun, he drew comics. “Fictional stories about an angry and ambitious turtle trying to sell coffee across San Francisco” is how Ahn describes them — the turtle’s personality was based on his grandfather. As a promotional gimmick, Ahn brewed small batches of coffee and served festival attendees in hand-stamped cups.
Mission Station gets new police captain — its fifth in four years
Captain Liza Johansen is taking over the helm at Mission police station, and earlier this month replaced Captain Thomas Harvey to oversee the Mission District, Castro, and parts of Noe Valley, she announced at a community meeting on Tuesday night. “I’m coming in bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. But I’m not delusional,”...
Surge of new businesses coming to Valencia and 16th, filling vacancies
Valencia Street has long been a go-to place for San Franciscans seeking shops, music venues, restaurants, and bars — and a hot real estate location for businesses wanting to capitalize on that foot traffic. Yet there’s one block of Valencia, between 16th and 17th streets, where six storefronts sit...
See how they run: Outer Sunset merchants grill Safaí on Great Highway
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. The fog rolled in on the Upper Great Highway around noon on Tuesday, and dozens of cars drove...
District 5 candidates weigh in — or don’t — on District Attorney race
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.
Trevor Chandler splits from colleagues on ceasefire resolution and Prop. 33
About a 100 people dropped by City College of San Francisco’s Mission campus on Monday night for a District 9 candidates forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters, just two months before election day. One of the most pressing questions, the fifth of the night, came...
Foraging for clay on the beach with Mission-based Artillery Ceramics
The Mission is always filled with wonderful surprises. Artillery Ceramics, at 2751 Mission St., recently hosted a recent clay-foraging adventure. That was a surprise, foraging for clay. I’d never heard of it. The event included gathering, processing and sculpting clay at Thorton State Park, a 15-minute drive from 24th...
Possums and squirrels crowd Yggdrasil, wildlife sanctuary in heart of Potrero
When I first meet Lila Travis, the director of Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue in Potrero, we bump elbows rather than shaking hands, because she’s just touched poop while cleaning out animal enclosures. Travis then leads me from her home’s quiet residential street, where the rescue is located, into her...
Hordes of dirt bikers rumble through S.F. streets, with little pushback
Chaos and mayhem erupted across parts of San Francisco yesterday as hundreds of dirt-bike riders took over streets in the Mission and elsewhere and police appeared unable to intervene. Twitter user and videographer FriscoLive415 posted footage of bikers cruising through Mission Dolores and driving on sidewalks. Local journalist Sergio Quintana...
See how they run: Safaí woos voters from one block party to the next
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 a typical Chinatown block party: Locals and tourists gathered around lion dance performances, played corn hole...
San Francisco mayoral candidates wade into District 5 race vs. Dean Preston
San Francisco’s mayoral candidates are beginning to show a particular interest in District 5, as Mayor London Breed and former Supervisor Mark Farrell pick their favorite among those running for supervisor against incumbent Dean Preston. Farrell today announced his endorsement of political newcomer Scotty Jacobs, and earlier this month,...
Mayor Breed’s strange and terrible foray into ‘reform’ — six years into her term
Last week, on the 2,232nd day of her tenure as mayor, London Breed put out an executive order trumpeting the need for comprehensive charter reform to re-do the way San Francisco government works. This is such a pressing and vital endeavor that Breed’s plan calls for us to place this...
Bubbles, bikes, and beats: Sunday Streets on Valencia
People flocked to Valencia Street yesterday for Sunday Streets Mission, an event in which a mile-long stretch of Valencia — from Duboce to 26th — is closed to cars and opened to pedestrians and bikers. The sun shone down as artists, politicians, businesses, and neighborhood groups set up...
People We Meet: A Palestinian liquor store clerk builds community on the corner
His wife’s chocolate chip cookies sit in a basket on the check-out counter. A faded magazine clipping of him and his three sons is tacked up between shelves of liquor. A sign outside encourages anyone who is hungry to inquire within, where a special rack of assorted foods is available for those in need.
Daniel Lurie drops another $1.6M on his mayoral bid
Daniel Lurie is stepping on the gas: On Thursday, filings were released showing the Levi Strauss heir has dropped another $1.6 million on his mayoral campaign. That brings the total backing Lurie’s campaign to $8.45 million, including $5.45 million in an independent political action committee largely funded by his own family.
MacArthur Foundation withholds $625K from San Francisco — DA charges racism
The MacArthur Foundation, a liberal organization that heavily funds criminal justice reform efforts across the country, is withholding $625,000 from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office until the office shows it is “fully committed to the goals and strategies” of reform, according to a letter sent to the district attorney on Aug. 5.
District 1 candidates on Richmond seniors’ access to the rest of the city
Welcome back to our weekly “Meet the Candidates” series, in which District 1 supervisorial candidates who have filed to run respond to a question in 100 words or fewer. Answers are published each week, but we are also archiving each answer on this page for District 1, to make it easier for voters to browse.
‘Code Brown’ means what you think it means: On the street with Tenderloin guides
“Sixteen,” reports Margarita Mena. Seniors? — 28. Mena is wiping down a tray of radio receivers for Safe Passage, a program now in its 16th year that helps children and elderly people walking through the Tenderloin, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods where every street is on the city’s High Injury Network, and severe and fatal crashes were at levels ten times higher than the rest of the city from 2014 to 2019.
DA declines to charge Black woman slammed into wall during SFPD jaywalking stop
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office did not file charges against Christiana Porter, 34, spokesperson Randolph Quezada wrote in an email today. Porter was slammed against a wall and cited for resisting arrest by SFPD officer Josh McFall during a jaywalking stop last month. Porter had been ordered to...
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