Infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff slammed with federal charges in a cryptocurrency scheme
Disgraced lobbyist Abramoff purportedly met with undercover FBI agent in San Francisco, agreed to...
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Breaking: Deal reached to prevent state from clawing back hundreds of millions of dollars from San Francisco, other counties
San Francisco breathes a potential $180 million sigh of relief After an agonizing weeks-long...
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Zen and Art of Campaigning from Your Room: A chat with state senate hopeful Jackie Fielder
On a computer screen, if you squint just enough, Jackie Fielder’s comforter looks like it’s...
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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...
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‘Wake up, Zuck’: Protesters gather outside of Facebook founder’s home, demand regulation of political ads
On Monday morning around 10 a.m., about 50 protesters gathered outside of Facebook founder and CEO...
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Police union president calls for federal prosecution of man accused of assaulting cop as police union runoff election commences
San Francisco police union president Tony Montoya’s call this morning for federal prosecutors to...
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San Francisco’s mandatory anti-bias training cites discriminatory policies of Mike Bloomberg — the presidential choice of San Francisco’s mayor
Anti-bias training that every aspirational San Francisco city commissioner must complete offers a...
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State Sen. candidate Jackie Fielder introduces housing plan, says SB 50 is on its ‘last legs’
State senate candidate Jackie Fielder on Wednesday announced a housing plan that drew a sharp...
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Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer will not run for re-election
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer has confirmed to Mission Local that she will not run for a second term...
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Proposition E, barring unforeseen lunacy, will pass — handily. But then what?
The downside of writing a column about Proposition E, which we’ll vote on in March, is that it’s...
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In state senate hopeful Jackie Fielder, San Francisco progressives see their Ocasio-Cortez
Standing beneath a tarp as rain poured down on the back patio of El Rio Friday night, state senate...
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Now is the winter of Mayor London Breed’s discontent. Will glorious summer come in 2020?
Last week, Mayor London Breed enthusiastically endorsed Los Angeles County District Attorney...
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S.F. election update: Dean Preston and Chesa Boudin declare victory
In a topsy-turvy and unpredictable election, today we finally saw some predictability. And,...
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S.F. election update: A watershed moment for Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston
With provisional ballots making up the vast majority of outstanding votes, challengers Boudin and...
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S.F. election update: A consequential day, as races tighten and leads flip
Interim DA Suzy Loftus now leads Chesa Boudin by a mere 0.67 percent — 50.33 percent to 49.67...
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S.F. election update: Suzy Loftus and Vallie Brown staked to leads, but scores of thousands of ballots remain uncounted
In what figures to be a frantic ritual for days to come, San Francisco’s Department of Elections...
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