Come 4 p.m. today, you’ll probably find Joel Engardio and Supervisor Gordon Mar hitting refresh on the Election Department webpage. That race is still up in the air, though it would […]
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For first time, non-citizens can serve on San Francisco boards
San Francisco has become the first major city in the country to allow non-citizens to serve on commissions and advisory boards. The historic win comes as 54 percent of the […]
Manny’s: Old School Town Hall w/ New District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey
Mayor London N. Breed appointed Matt Dorsey to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, making him the first self-identified member of the substance use disorder recovery community to […]
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Prop. C asks voters if noncitizens should serve on commissions
This dispatch is part of a series called “On the Ground” with Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project. A version of this story appeared on USA Today […]
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$492 million in Prop. C money unlocked for SF’s homeless
Some $492 million dollars held in escrow, pending a final legal decision on Proposition C, can now flow to city homeless and housing services after the California Supreme Court today […]
Manny’s: What We Learned: Homelessness with Director of HSH Shireen McSpadden
There is no getting around the fact that homelessness in San Francisco and throughout the country is a big problem. The pandemic forced many into worse economic conditions and many […]
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Covid Tracker: 10,121 cases, 88 deaths
Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. Trust in government is critical in containing Covid-19. During her campaign against the initiative to tax the City’s […]
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Explore: Nearly $14 million poured into SF races
Updated November 5, 2022. If it’s true that money talks, San Francisco figures to be an extremely noisy place over the next few days. Campaign contributions to the roughly 50 […]
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SF homeless tally drops – ‘investment works’
Preliminary figures released Monday suggest that homelessness in San Francisco has dropped by 3.8 percent since 2019. That might not sound like a lot, but it is the biggest drop […]
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Four more shelter-in-place hotels plan to shut down by March
“By everyone’s estimation, we have not done that sufficiently enough to be embarking on phase-out at this time,” Wilson said.
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Covid Tracker: 13,793 cases, 156 deaths
Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. NOTE: You may experience technical problems on mobile for which we apologize and are working to fix. Scroll […]
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Court of Appeal sides with San Francisco on Prop. C — City on cusp of unlocking hundreds of millions of dollars for homeless services
In the same week the International Municipal Lawyers Association named a prestigious award after deceased Deputy City Attorney Buck Delventhal, a Court of Appeals ruling affirmed the legal theory the […]
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Juul blindsides its own campaign, extinguishes Prop. C. But, federally, will it be a big winner — or a big loser?
When Francisco-based vaping giant Juul decided to suspend its Proposition C campaign, it came as a surprise to most everyone. And that includes the Proposition C campaign. Workers on the […]
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Five data tidbits from the SF election
Making proclamations about an election when there are upwards of 100,000 votes still to count is akin to building on particularly syrupy quicksand. That said, we can, cautiously, poke around […]
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Election 2020: Some 35,500 more votes are counted
As new election results were reported Wednesday, around 35,500 more votes were counted, leaving around 112,000 or so to count following Tuesday’s election. That 112,000 figure is a sharp uptick […]
