Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer will not run for re-election

Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer has confirmed to Mission Local that she will not run for a second term...

Former police union boss threatened supervisor by warning he’d leak her husband’s confidential police records

Dec 30, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Threatening letter from former POA boss predated Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer’s ‘Fuck the...

Matt Haney’s Navigation Center legislation may not be what San Francisco needs — but it is what San Francisco deserves

Dec 23, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Prior to the city making a splash by announcing plans to build a large homeless Navigation Center...

San Francisco supervisor Stefani referred to homeless ‘zombie invasion’ in email included in tenant’s lawsuit against her

Nov 26, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics

In an email to an architect fortifying her house — “please think Fort Knox” —...

‘American Indian Cultural District’ proposed for heart of the Mission

Nov 19, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

While some in the Mission are pushing for an expansion of the Latino Cultural District to include...

Would a tax on vacant storefronts work in the Mission?

Nov 14, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Standing today with Elias Bihaki, the proprietor of Caffe Sapore at 790 Lombard St., Supervisor...

S.F. election update: Dean Preston and Chesa Boudin declare victory

Nov 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In a topsy-turvy and unpredictable election, today we finally saw some predictability. And,...

S.F. election update: A watershed moment for Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston

Nov 8, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

With provisional ballots making up the vast majority of outstanding votes, challengers Boudin and...

S.F. election update: A consequential day, as races tighten and leads flip

Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Interim DA Suzy Loftus now leads Chesa Boudin by a mere 0.67 percent — 50.33 percent to 49.67...

S.F. election update: Suzy Loftus and Vallie Brown staked to leads, but scores of thousands of ballots remain uncounted

Nov 6, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In what figures to be a frantic ritual for days to come, San Francisco’s Department of Elections...

Is this an election? Or an experiment … or both?

Nov 4, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, SNAPS, Today's Mission, Topics

The comedian Brian Haley used to do a bit about the joys of donning a white lab coat, picking up a...

As SFPD reform effort drags on, communities of color feel disconnected

Oct 23, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

After three years, the San Francisco Police Department has completed 29 of the 272 reform recommendations made by the U.S. Department of Justice. That’s 11 percent. With nine-tenths of the work remaining, community members remain wary of the effort involved and note that, accordingly, they’re seeing few changes on the ground.

Sixty-unit housing project on 14th Street to rise, as supes reject SF Mission activist appeal

Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

A seven-story, 60-unit project will rise at 344 14th St., as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reject a last-ditch environmental appeal filed by neighborhood activists opposed to the project, which contains eight affordable units.