SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Announces $37.5M Fund, Raised From Private Donations, to Address Homelessness and Mental Illness SF Mayor Daniel Lurie made good on a campaign promise to tap wealthy donors in order to help the city address two of its most entrenched problems, homelessness and behavioral health.
SF News SFPD Chief Bill Scott Is Stepping Down — Did Lurie Push Him Out? San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott is stepping down after an eight-year tenure at the SFPD, following months of rumors that Mayor Daniel Lurie might be looking to make a change at the top of the department.
SF Politics SF City Department Head Removed From Post, Mayor Lurie Accuses Her of ‘Unlawful Activities’ SF’s Department on the Status of Women director Kimberly Ellis was under a cloud of allegations of unauthorized moonlighting, no-bid city contracts for friends, and extravagant conference spending, and now she’s been ousted, presumably on Mayor Lurie’s orders.
SF Politics After Demanding City Workers Return to Office Four Days Per Week, Mayor Lurie Grants Reprieve Until August A return-to-office mandate from the SF mayor's office has been pushed back following a negotiation with the union that represents city workers. But by the end of summer, most city employees will only be allowed to work remotely one day per week.
SF News Lurie Announces Market Street to Open Up to Waymos The car-free stretch of Market Street east of 10th is going to be somewhat less car-free this summer when it starts getting clogged up with confused Waymos.
SF Politics Suspended SF City Hall Director Now Claims She Was Ousted For Whistleblowing On a Sex-Abuse Case The strange case of an allegedly moonlighting City Hall director just got stranger, as she claims she wasn’t put on leave over a side gig, but because she was about to blow the whistle on “the sexual abuse of a minor in a city-funded foster care program.”
SF Politics Ousted Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone Speaks Out, Blasts Both Lurie and Breed Freshly fired SF Police Commissioner VP Max Carter-Oberstone gave a lengthy exit interview, and painted both Mayor Lurie and ex-Mayor London Breed as being imperious, vindictive, and defensively secretive.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Posts Awkward Video Reading 'Nice Muni Emails' Modeled on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" segments, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has posted a video to social media in which he's reading nice emails the city has received about Muni drivers.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Promises 'New Era of Accountability' In New Homelessness Plan SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a new executive order Monday and announcing an ambitious plan for tackling the combined crises of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health, which includes holding nonprofits more accountable for outcomes.
SF Politics Lurie Sending SF Delegation to Washington DC to Plead We Get Spared From Trump’s Budget Cuts With the Trump administration likely to yank hundreds of millions from SF in already-promised reimbursement funds and other federal subsidies, Mayor Lurie is sending a team of negotiators to Washington, DC in hopes of preventing this.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie's Office Makes Its First Staffing Change, Letting Go of Communications Director Less than two months in to the Lurie administration, the San Francisco Mayor's Office has let go of a key team member, Communications Director Nina Negusse.
SF News SFPD Makes Huge Deal Out of 16th & Mission Bust That Only Produced Four Arrests, Tiny Smattering of Drugs The Mayor, Sheriff, and Chief of Police thought it was worthy of a press conference that SFPD did a “saturation” bust at 16th and Mission Wednesday night, yet this operation resulted in just four arrests and the seizure of one measly ounce of drugs.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Oust Vice President of SF Police Commission, Basically Because Mayor Lurie Told Them To SF Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone was just removed from the commission Tuesday afternoon during a very rowdy hearing, after Carter-Oberstone crossed Mayor Breed who appointed him, and new Mayor Lurie settled the old political score for her.
SF Politics Biden's Medicaid Chief Daniel Tsai Appointed to Lead SF's Department of Public Health Seeking refuge from the current Trump era in Washington, a former Biden administration health official has just landed a job in SF's Lurie administration.
SF News Mayor Lurie Launches SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ to Bolster Union Square Ahead of All-Star Game, Lunar New Year While this new SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ arrives the weekend before the double-team of the NBA All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade, the reconfigured police staffing will be in effect year-round in the Union Square tourism district.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Is Determined to Fire Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone SF Police Commission Vice President Max Carter-Oberstone became famous for blowing the whistle on London Breed when she forced commissioners to sign secret resignation letters. Now new Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to fire him outright.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gets His ‘Fentanyl Emergency Ordinance’ Passed In Landslide Board Vote Mayor Lurie won a huge expansion of his powers to combat fentanyl markets and homelessness, as the Board of Supervisors approved his so-called “emergency ordinance,” which now involves a pop-up police station at the long-debated SoMa Nordstrom parking lot.
SF News Scott Wiener Teams Up With Mayor Lurie on Proposed New Illegal Street Vending Law The latest effort to tamp down the illegal vending scene in SF is a state-level bill from state Senator Scott Wiener, though it only applies to San Francisco, and Wiener has lined up Mayor Lurie and several SF supervisors to support it.
SF News Lurie Holds City Hall Rally to Push His Fentanyl Emergency Order, Which Seems to Have the Votes to Pass Mayor Lurie’s Wednesday morning rally to support his fentanyl measure had more supporters lined up onstage than it had people in attendance, but more importantly, Lurie appears to have enough SF supervisor support to pass his measure next week.
SF Politics Lurie Rolls Out Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance, But Supervisors’ Dissent Already Brewing New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced his "Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance" on Tuesday, but there’s already some pushback, as it hands out no-oversight money to department heads to create potential for Mohammed Nuru-type self-dealing.
SF News Mayor Lurie Names New Fire Chief, Dean Crispen, a 34-Year Veteran of the SFFD In his first department-head appointment of his tenure as mayor, Daniel Lurie on Friday announced the appointment of second-generation firefighter and 34-year veteran of the city's fire department Dean Crispen as the new fire chief.
SF Politics Lurie Announces City Hall Hiring Freeze on First Full Day in Office, Fentanyl Emergency Order Coming by Tuesday New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a City Hall hiring freeze (but not for cops or firefighters) on Day One of his administration that faces a $876 million deficit, and he says he’ll have his fentanyl crackdown plan ready to pass on Tuesday.
SF News Lurie Inaugural Bash In Chinatown Draws Thousands Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed Wednesday night, as a night market, street performers, mainstage acts, and a VIP banquet celebrated the inauguration of Daniel Lurie as the city's 46th mayor.
SF News 'Safety Isn't Just a Statistic': Read SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's Inauguration Speech Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco, giving an inauguration speech that was predictably focused on the hot-button issues of drugs, crime, and the perception of safety on city streets.
SF Politics Inauguration of Daniel Lurie as SF Mayor on Wednesday to Include Civic Center Ceremony, Chinatown Celebrations A changing of the guard takes place this week at San Francisco City Hall, and the festivities around the mayoral inauguration will be going on all day Wednesday.
