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That ‘Let’s Glow’ Holiday Projection Mapping Display Is Indeed Coming Back Downtown for 2024

“The largest holiday projection mapping festival in the country" is returning to downtown San Francisco for the fourth consecutive year, and this year will have a boozy open-container party for one night of its ten-night run.

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Daniel Lurie Sweeps Into Mayor’s Office Promising ‘Change,’ But It’s Unclear What His Administration Will Look Like

The Mayor-Elect of San Francisco Daniel Lurie is still a walking question mark in many respects, but there are some educated guesses on how the wealthy heir and nonprofit executive is going to govern and try to fulfill his campaign promises.

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Day Around the Bay: Chronicle Projects Jackie Fielder Has Won the District 9 Supervisor Seat

More than 10,000 people have been evacuated amidst the Mountain Fire in Ventura County; the prosecution rested in the Bob Lee stabbing trial; and Jackie Fielder is being projected as the winner for Hillary Ronen’s supervisor seat.

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Alleged Hayward Drunk Driver Leads Highway Patrol on 90 MPH Chase With Four-Year-Old In Car

Today’s Darwin Award nomination goes to a woman allegedly driving in Hayward at twice the legal DUI limit, going 90 miles an hour, and apparently had her four-year-old daughter in the car at the time.

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Nearly 17% of SF Voted for Trump, and 34% of Visitacion Valley Voted for Trump

The latest SF election tallies show that nearly one in five San Franciscans voted for Donald Trump, and by neighborhood, Vis Valley is the Trumpiest of neighborhoods, where nearly one in three voters went for Trump.

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Fired-Up State AG Rob Bonta Declares He’ll Roadblock the Trump Administration on Deportation Plans

In preparing for Trump’s return to power, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sounds like he’s ready to sue the Trump administration at every turn, vowing “We won’t be flat-footed come January,” particularly on mass deportation attempts.

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Testimony Underway for Pittsburg Siblings Accused of Shooting Carmel 19-Year-Old in Love Triangle Dispute

The 2021 murder of 19-year-old Leilani Beauchamp now has a brother and sister on trial for the murder, and while they say the shooting was an accident, their alleged gruesome disposal of the body in rural Salinas has them answering some tough questions on the stand.

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Yes, the Democrats Can Still Win the House of Representatives, and California Could Seal the Deal

We interrupt your doomscrolling with a flicker of hope, which is that the Democrats can still win control of the House of Representatives, but they’ll need California to do it.

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SF to Start Enforcing New ‘Daylighting’ Parking Law for Parking Within 20 Feet of a Crosswalk

You’ll soon be looking at a $40 citation for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, as new state law is kicking in requiring 20 feet of “daylight” between parked cars and crosswalks, though they won’t be handing out the fines until January 1, 2025.

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California Voters Say Yes to Tougher Crime Sentences, No to Rent Control

Most statewide California ballot measure results still cannot be projected, but the two big ones can, as tougher sentencing for crimes was approved, while an expansion of rent control was rejected.

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No Winners Yet in SF Supervisor Races, But Moderates Might Pick Off a Couple Progressive Seats

Not one candidate can declare victory yet in the five SF Board of Supervisors races, but two YIMBY candidates have slight leads for Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin’s current seats, while the District 1 race hangs by a thread of just 35 votes.

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Early Results Have Car-Free Great Highway Ahead, Prop D Commission Reform Losing

While there are still plenty of votes left to count, the Prop K measure to make the Great Highway car-free has a comfortable lead, while the big-money effort to slash SF City Hall commissions is way behind.

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Day Around the Bay: Extremely Nervous Bay Area Braces for Election Results

Muni was hamstrung by technical issues much of the day; a man was run over and killed by a pick-up truck at the Emeryville Target; and here’s where to get election results tonight for the the state and local races they won’t be covering on cable TV.

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Green Day’s Billie Joe Shares Trump-Bashing Casino Anecdote in Election Eve Instagram Videos

The East Bay’s own Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day endorsed Kamala Harris in Instagram videos posted the night before the election, but also shared a tale that makes it clear why he probably won’t be asked back to perform at Trump hotels or casinos.

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Lyft Driver Accused of Punching Jewish Rider at SFO Gets Acquitted of Hate Crime Charges

A Lyft driver faced federal hate crime charges for punching a Jewish rider at SFO in the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict, but a federal jury just ruled that it was not a hate crime, and the accused is off the hook.

SFPD Says Their Drone Nabbed Man Suspected of Stealing $2,500 Worth of Walgreens Merchandise

A combination of surveillance cameras and a drone resulted in a Walgreens burglary suspect being arrested shortly after allegedly robbing the store, and while he was trying to sell those stolen goods at 24th and Mission, according to SFPD.

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Bay Area Law Enforcement Gearing Up for Possible Election Night, Post-Election Mayhem

Whether it's celebratory riots, large-scale protests, or opportunistic criminals looking to loot because police might otherwise be distracted, Bay Area police departments are bracing for possible crime and bedlam on Election Night or later this week.

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Judge Strikes Down SF’s ‘Empty Homes Tax’ After Property Owners Sued

Though San Francisco voters approved the residential vacancy tax known popularly as the “Empty Homes Tax” in 2022, the landlords lawyered up, and that tax on vacant rental units was just tossed out by an SF Superior Court judge.

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Your California Ballot Cheat Sheet For Tuesday’s Ten Statewide Measures

The ten measures on your California ballot have been largely overshadowed by the presidential race and mayoral race (or recall, if you're in Oakland), so here’s a quick preview of the minimum wage, rent control, and crime sentencing proposals the state will vote on tomorrow.

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Monday Morning Headlines: Red Flag Warnings and Possible Power Shut-Offs Loom This Week

BART Police arrested a suspect in Saturday’s 24th Street station stabbing; two SF Walgreens stores suffered smash-and-grabs within an hour of each other; and high winds could prompt some Bay Area PG&E power shut-offs this week.

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Man Who Claims Pamela Price Tried To Extort $25,000 Out of Him Produces Small Shreds of Evidence

An Oakland businessman with a checkered past and connections to the Sheng Thao raid claimed this month that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. His attorney just produced some documents that kind of, sort of support his claim.

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Four Seats Up for Grabs to Serve on School Board for the Incredibly Chaotic SFUSD

The SF Unified School District is such a mess that most school board candidates declined to run for re-election. These are the people running for the four seats that are up for a vote on Election Day.

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Here Is the Affordable Housing Project Slated to Rise on the Site of Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire

Nearly eight years after the Ghost Ship fire killed 36 people, we have our first look at the plans for the two-building, five-story affordable housing complex being built to replace it in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and it will have an on-site memorial.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Postal Truck Caught Pulling a Hit-and-Run in San Ramon

Huge turnout is expected to be a wild card in the SF mayoral race; John's Grill will again be hosting its free Election Day luncheon; and surveillance video caught a US Postal truck hitting a car and fleeing the scene in San Ramon.

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Nearly Three Years After It Opened, Bayview RV Triage Site Finally Gets Decent Electricity

The Bayview RV triage site that opened in January 2022 has been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” ever because of PG&E and Urban Alchemy costs. The problem was that PG&E never delivered that electricity, but they finally got it up and running this week.