SF Politics Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mandelman Introduce Ballot Measures to (Of Course) Give Lurie More Power Mr. 14-months-on-the-job Daniel Lurie thinks it's high time he be given some more sweeping powers currently held by the SF Board of Supervisors and various City Hall commissions.
SF Politics Kristi Noem, on the Way Out the Door, Claims to Have Been In Frequent Contact With Mayor Daniel Lurie We have another clue about how and to what extent Mayor Daniel Lurie has been playing ball with the Trump administration — which we know led to Trump calling off his dogs back in October with that planned federal "surge."
SF News Mayor Daniel Lurie's Security Detail Attacked In Tenderloin Scuffle, Two Injured A strange and violent incident unfolded Thursday evening on a Tenderloin alley where SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's black SUV was reportedly blocked in by multiple people, and two of his security guards, both SFPD officers, became involved in a physical fight.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Says He’s Laying Off 500 SF City Hall Employees, Which Will Not Endear Him to the Labor Unions Daniel Lurie says that at least 500 City Hall jobs are on the chopping block, a move he avoided last year through accounting tricks, and Lurie may not exactly be Mr. Popular anymore once that axe comes down.
SF News Mayor Lurie’s Controversial New RESET Sobering Center Will See Its Contractor Paid Based on Performance An Arizona-based contractor will have a unique method of getting paid to operate Mayor Lurie’s forthcoming RESET Center that hopes to sober up public drug users, as they’ll be paid based on how effective the center is.
SF News Mayor Lurie Says Protesters Were Chanting ‘Tax the Jews,’ But It Was Just One Unassociated Lady Passing By Mayor Daniel Lurie is not particularly helping San Francisco’s image at the moment, as he posted a false claim that SF protesters were chanting “Tax the Jews” at a Wednesday event, even though video debunks the claim.
SF News Lurie Moves Ahead With ‘RESET’ Center Drug Sobering Facility, Even as City Attorney Questions Its Legality Mayor Lurie signed a new drug-focused sobering center into law Wednesday, despite City Attorney pushback that the center has a “failure to comply with State law” and “non-compliance with standards for detention facilities.”
SF Politics Newsom and Lurie Distance Themselves From Campaign Against California Billionaire Tax The billionaires who don’t want to pay the California billionaire tax are lining up big bucks to defeat the ballot measure, but Gavin Newsom and Daniel Lurie deny reports they will appear in ads against the billionaire tax.
SF News Day Around the Bay: MC Hammer Jumps Aboard Honorary Black History Month Cable Car Amazon ended its deal with Ring after that creepy Super Bowl commercial; the Vallaincourt Fountain preservationists have filed a lawsuit pausing demolition; and MC Hammer made an appearance on a Black History Month cable car.
SF News There’s Fresh Friction Between Lurie and PG&E Over Day-of-Blackout ‘Nutcracker’ Performance A PG&E executive testified that Mayor Lurie demanded the lights be turned back on during the Dec. 20 blackout for his daughter's ‘Nutcracker’ performance, but now PG&E is backtracking on that claim.
SF Politics City Hall Produces Goofy Video to Tout How Ready They Are For Super Bowl Crowds It could be seen as protesting too much, but San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and his office have produced a slick but kind of awkward video in which various city departments confirm how "ready" they are to host the Super Bowl.
SF Politics Lurie Has Spent Nearly $900K of His Personal Wealth on Consultants Since Taking Office SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is extremely sensitive to how he is viewed by the public, so much so that we’re now learning he’s spent $870,000 out of his own pocket on PR consultants to manage his image in his first year in office.
SF News Two-Thirds of SF Families Qualify for the City’s Free Subsidized Child Care, But Few Know About It San Francisco expanded an existing program this week launched by former mayor London Breed that now provides free or deeply discounted child care for two-thirds of SF families with children five and under, but due to lack of public awareness, most eligible families still don’t know it exists.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gives His First State of the City Address, Says 'People Are Proud to Live Here Again' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie delivered his first State of the City address Thursday morning, concluding his first year in office and kicking off Year Two, calling 2025 one of the safest in city history.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Seeks New State Legislation for Court-Ordered Mental Health Medication San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Assemblymember Catherine Stefani announced a new state bill Monday, authored by Stefani, that would allow judges to order involuntary mental-health medication in some circumstances.
SF Politics Lawsuit Filed to Stop Mayor Lurie's Upzoning Plan, Because of Course For many who reside in the city's westside neighborhoods and in the Marina, it'll be a cold day in hell before they allow their suburban-esque environs to get any more urban or dense. But it is a city, people!
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Feted on National TV For SF Turnaround That He's Taking All the Credit For Daniel Lurie is correct to say that much of the country has "an outdated notion" of what San Francisco has been like the last year or two. But is it right to give him credit for a perceived turnaround in the city that was kind of underway before he took office?
SF Politics Lurie Violated City Law by Keeping Records of Trump Phone Call Secret, City Committee Says SF residents still don’t know what happened on that phone call where Mayor Lurie talked Donald Trump out of sending federal troops into SF, and a panel of SF’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force says Lurie is breaking the law.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Endorses D2 Supervisor Sherrill Long Before 2026 Election. Is He Worried About Sherrill's Odds? SF Mayor Daniel Lurie made the unusual move to endorse Supervisor Stephen Sherrill seven months before the election, a gesture he has made to no other supervisors, and perhaps a canary in the coal mine regarding Sherrill’s chances.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Comes Out Swinging Against Proposed 25-Story Marina Safeway Megadevelopment SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is picking a fight with big-money development interests for maybe the first time since he took office, and he has nothing but contempt for the 800-unit double tower proposed for the Marina Safeway site.
Politics Supervisor Chan Claps Back at Colleagues For Admonishing Her Budget, Housing Plan Concerns In a text exchange following Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Chan accused Board President Mandelman of acting in bad faith and setting her up with “two assholes” — Mahmood and Sauter, who are temporarily filling seats on the budget committee.
SF News Sunday Links: Trump Takes MLK Jr. Day Off List of Free National Parks Holidays, Adds His Own Birthday Mayor Lurie talked about his socks during Wired’s ‘Big Interview’ while Governor Newsom trolled MAGAts with his sitting position; California residents are urged to avoid foraged mushrooms after 21 recent poisonings; and Golden Gate Ferry is adding two new vessels.
SF Politics Lurie’s Reported ‘Short List’ for District 4 Supervisor Appointment Becomes Public After the bungled Beya Alcaraz appointment for District 4 supervisor, Mayor Lurie reportedly has a short list of candidates he’s considering as the new replacement, and thankfully, they are all more experienced than his last pick.
SF Politics New SF Supervisor Beya Alcaraz Abruptly Resigns After New Revelations on Potential Tax Fraud at Pet Shop After reports broke late Thursday that new SF District 4 Supervisor Beya Alcaraz had paid employees under the table and misrepresented expenses on her taxes, Alcaraz resigned from her supervisor seat about four hours later.
SF News Lurie’s Latest Fentanyl-Fighting Strategy Is to Arrest Drug Users and Put Them in a ‘Sobering Center’ A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the “drunk tank” for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie’s latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets.
