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‘Fire sale’: S.F. moving to buy out PG&E — even, potentially, if PG&E says no
Public power: It’s not just for lefty conspiracy theorists anymore. Could San Francisco use eminent domain to break up with PG&E and municipalize electric service? It may yet try.
Poll results: Which S.F. street did you vote to rename for Claude the Alligator?
Here’s the official winner from Mission Local’s poll for ‘Claude the Alligator Way.’ The city will use the results to inform its next move.
Could anything have stopped the Marina Safeway ‘behemoth’?
Experts say there is a ploy that *might* have helped. The ploy the city eventually chose *definitely* won’t help.
42 faith leaders arrested after chaining themselves to S.F. immigration court
About 20 protesters were arrested by federal police after chaining themselves to San Francisco’s immigration court.
We asked every S.F. politician about the Marina Safeway proposal. Here are their answers.
San Francisco’s elected officials and significant candidates for office are put on the spot and on the record
As violence rose, S.F. health workers say safety proposals were ignored
Workplace violence at San Francisco General Hospital rose by 60% between 2024 and 2025, according to Department of Public Health data.
Times have changed at Ward 86, but clinic space has not. After S.F. hospital worker’s killing, that looms large.
Stabbing of 51-year-old social worker Alberto Rangel could signal sea change for nation’s first outpatient HIV/AIDS clinic
The District 4 supervisor race will be nasty, brutish and short
The Sunset has a new supervisor — and a bruising, reductive and rapid election on the horizon
Mayor Lurie taps Alan Wong as District 4 supervisor, its 3rd of 2025
Son of the Sunset and Lincoln High grad will replace Joel Engardio and Engardio’s replacement, Beya Alcaraz
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