SF News Bay Area Joins Millions Nationwide in Record-Breaking ‘No Kings Day’ Marches Against Trump Tens of thousands gathered across the Bay Area on Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings Day” protests, opposing the Trump administration on his 79th birthday. The demonstrations, potentially the largest in U.S. history, coincided with Trump's military parade in DC.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party This weekend: Scenes from Carnaval and Chinatown Pride. Last week: A BART wedding, a Muni tram, a Seth Rogan rom-com, and AI bots on the fritz; This week: book festival, menstrual dignity day, pro-wrestling, and SF LGBT Center block party.
SF News Barbara Lee Sworn In as Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee speaks to thee when she gets sworn in as Mayor of Oakland in a noon ceremony Tuesday, and she’ll immediately face the challenges of a city dealing with a deficit as large as $270 million, and its reputation for crime.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor-Elect Barbara Lee Announces Her First Batch of Transition Staff Appointments The Barbara Lee administration now has its first 16 official hires, and they include former SF City Controller Ben Rosenfeld, who held a similar transition job when Danel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco Mayor.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Declares Victory, Loren Taylor Concedes In Oakland Mayor's Race Well, it did not take long after Friday's updated ranked-choice voting results for candidate Loren Taylor to concede his loss to former Congresswoman Barbara Lee, saving us from a drawn-out contest while Alameda County slowly tabulates votes.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Takes Lead In Oakland Mayoral Election Vote Count With about 45,000 more votes counted than had been tallied on Election Night, former Congresswoman Barbara Lee has moved into a solid lead in the race to become Oakland's next mayor.
SF Politics Loren Taylor Leads In Early Tally of Oakland Mayoral Election — But It's Ranked Choice and Quite Close Former City Councilmember Loren Taylor had a small early lead over Barbara Lee in the initial ranked-choice tally in Tuesday's special election for Oakland mayor, but this may not mean anything.
SF Politics Candidates Running to Replace Sheng Thao Face Off In First Oakland Mayoral Forum Three candidates running to replace the recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao had a mayoral forum Tuesday night, as that April 15 special election is starting to heat up between Barbara Lee, Loren Taylor, and Renia Webb.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Returns $5,000 From Donors Indicted In Sheng Thao Scandal, Though She’s Taken $66K From Them Barbara Lee’s campaign to be mayor of Oakland doesn't need its first scandal, so she returned a $5,000 donation from the now-indicted Sheng Thao donors, but those same scandal-tainted donors have actually given her campaigns $66,250 over the last 26 years.
SF Politics No Time to Retire, Barbara Lee Makes Her Bid For Oakland Mayor Official Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Takes a Formal Step Toward a Running For Mayor of Oakland Recently retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee has just opened a campaign account for a run for Oakland mayor, and she's reportedly close to making a final decision about whether she will seek the job.
SF Politics Lateefah Simon Commands Huge Lead in Primary Race for Barbara Lee’s House Seat Longtime East Bay congressional representative Barbara Lee was rendered a lame duck by Tuesday’s election results, but Lee’s preferred successor for her House seat, Lateefah Simon, crushed all rivals in Tuesday's primary.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Steve Garvey In Second Place In Senate Race, Which Is Bad News for Katie Porter and Barbara Lee A brand new poll shows a very definite top two in the upcoming top-two primary for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, with Adam Schiff well in the lead, but Republican Steve Garvey solidly in second place, which is trouble for Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
SF News The Race to Replace Barbara Lee in Congress Is Heating Up Longtime East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee is vacating her seat in her bid for Senate, and of the nine candidates running to replace her, BART director Lateefah Simon seems to be pulling ahead.
SF Politics Debate for Feinstein’s Senate Seat: Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee Spar, Steve Garvey Wishy-Washes Monday night saw the first debate for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, where Katie Porter and Adam Schiff took center stage, while Barbara Lee fought to stay in the game, and Republican Steve Garvey stumbled in his attempts to not seem like he was a Republican.
SF Politics Adam Schiff Edging Out Katie Porter for the Former Feinstein Senate Seat, But ‘Undecided’ is Crushing the Field Rep. Adam Schiff has a slight 16%-13% lead over Rep. Katie Porter in the Senate election that’s still nearly a year away, but the bigger news may be that nearly 40% of California voters are still totally undecided on the race.
SF Politics Will Newsom Appoint Barbara Lee to the Senate? Or Send In Shirley Weber as 'Interim'? Governor Gavin Newsom is now faced with the awkward moment he has not wanted to face, with a second senate seat to fill by appointment, and a two-year-old pledge he may have come to regret.
SF Politics Newsom Tried to Sidestep His Pledge to Appoint a Black Woman to Feinstein's Seat, and Barbara Lee Is Pissed The awkwardness continues for Governor Gavin Newsom around the hypothetical second appointment he could conceivably have to make to the U.S. Senate, as questions about Dianne Feinstein's health remain.
SF News As East Bay Gun Injuries Spike By 180%, the Region’s Congressional Reps Call For Federal Report It seems unlikely some blue-ribbon commission would change the trajectory of gun injuries, up 180% in the East Bay compared to pre-pandemic, but some congressional representatives say a Surgeon General report could turn the tide like it did with cigarettes.
SF Politics Rep. Barbara Lee Joins Chorus of People Calling for More Seats to Be Added to Supreme Court As she runs for the U.S. Senate, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee joined a rally on Sunday calling for four more seats to be added to the Trump-heavy Supreme Court.
SF Politics South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna Won't Be Running for Feinstein's Seat, Endorses Barbara Lee Welp, one likely candidate in next year's race for California's soon-to-open-up Senate seat has taken himself out of the running, and that's South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna.
SF Politics New York Times Spotlights Barbara Lee and the Glass Ceiling For Many Black Women In Politics Longtime California Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has thrown her hat in the ring to become the next Senator from California, vying for Dianne Feinstein's seat in what may become an uphill battle.
SF Politics Now Barbara Lee Is Running For Feinstein’s Senate Seat, Setting Up a Democratic Party Royal Rumble We’ve got a Democrat donnybrook shaping up over the 2024 race for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, as East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee jumps into a race that will already likely include Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff, and Ro Khanna.
SF Politics Bay Area Reps Jackie Speier and Barbara Lee Proudly Get Arrested at D.C. Abortion Rights Protest If you need another reason to love peninsula and East Bay congressional representatives Barbara Lee and Jackie Speier, they just blocked a street and got arrested Tuesday at a Washington, D.C. abortion rights rally.
SF Politics East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee Got Married on New Year's Eve Eleven-term U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has represented Oakland and the East Bay in the House of Representatives since 1998, was just married on New Year's Eve to Los Angeles-based pastor Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden, Jr.
