SF Politics Clarence Thomas Quotes Dianne Feinstein In Ruling on Bump Stocks, Argues Congress Should Act to Ban Them The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that overturns a Trump era ban on bump stocks, largely because it was done by a federal agency and not by Congress. In writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas notes that the late Senator Dianne Feinstein predicted this would happen.
SF News A Federal Building By UN Plaza Might Be Named After Dianne Feinstein The naming-things-after-Dianne-Feinstein movement is not letting up just yet, and California's two senators just introduced a bill to name a federal building in San Francisco after her.
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 News SFO's International Terminal to Be Named After Dianne Feinstein, Pending Final Board Approval The San Francisco Airport Commission has taken its vote and, predictably, it has unanimously approved the renaming of the International Terminal at SFO after the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
SF Politics Sen. Laphonza Butler Says Being In the Senate Was 'Not on My Bingo Card,' Hopes to Create Space For Younger People In Congress Two months into her tenure, the new junior senator from California, Laphonza Butler, has offered a fuller explanation for why she decided she would not be running for a full six-year term next year.
SF News Bid to Rename SFO's International Terminal After Dianne Feinstein Gets First Hearing Next Month An effort to put late Senator Dianne Feinstein's name on one of the terminals at San Francisco International Airport will be having its first hearing next month at the Airport Commission.
SF News Fight Over Late Dianne Feinstein’s Estate Gets Even Fiercer, As Daughter Allegedly Changes Locks on Marin Property Katherine Feinstein is accused of changing the locks of a Stinson Beach home from the estate and staging it for sale for $8.5 million, against a judge’s orders, according to new court documents.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired LA Dodgers Bum Steve Garvey Running for Feinstein’s Former Senate Seat A 104-year-old woman died just a week after becoming the world's oldest skydiver, the Castro’s former Tacorgasmico space is now the reincarnated Zona Rosa, and one-time Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey is running for Feinstein’s former Senate seat as a Republican.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein’s Funeral Service Attracted Exactly One Protester Fleet Week will start rattling your windows just before 1 p.m. Friday, an Oakland LGBTQ bar was vandalized in what may have been a hate crime, and Dianne Feinstein’s funeral service brought out all of one protester with a cardboard sign.
SF Politics Feinstein Eulogies By Harris, Schumer, and Pelosi Celebrate Her as Champion For Women Though interrupted a number of times — as predicted — by loud flyovers by the Blue Angels, the funeral service for Dianne Feinstein outside San Francisco City Hall went off without any other hitches Thursday afternoon.
SF News Will the Blue Angels Be Buzzing Feinstein's Funeral? [Update: Yes] The funeral service for Dianne Feinstein kicks off at 1 p.m. in front of SF's City Hall, just as the Blue Angels pilots are set to begin doing their traditional Thursday-of-Fleet-Week practice flights.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Feinstein Funeral No Longer Open to the Public The Feinstein memorial at City Hall won't be open to the public, officials now say; City Hall is closed for all in-person services today; and Nancy Pelosi offers her remembrances of her friend, Dianne Feinstein.
SF Politics New Senator Laphonza Butler Defends Her Work for Uber, Plus the Whole Living In Maryland Thing It was seen as perhaps a stumble out of the gate when newly appointed California senator Laphonza Butler was revealed to have been living in Maryland the last two years, so she did a little clean-up on that in her first-day-on-the-job interview with the Chronicle.
SF Politics Feinstein's Body Arrives at SF City Hall, Will Lie In State Through Wednesday Late Senator Dianne Feinstein's remains arrived at San Francisco's City Hall rotunda Wednesday morning, flanked by members of the military, San Francisco firefighters, police, and SF sheriff's deputies all in dress uniform.
SF News Feinstein Memorial Moved Outdoors to Steps of City Hall; Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi to Speak A Thursday memorial service for Senator Dianne Feinstein, originally scheduled to happen inside the War Memorial Building, in Herbst Theater, now will happen outside City Hall, with the public welcome to attend.
SF News Dianne Feinstein's Body to Lie In State at City Hall Wednesday The body of late Senator Dianne Feinstein was flown back to the Bay Area Saturday, and members of the public will be able to pay their respects this week at San Francisco City Hall.
SF Politics Newsom Appoints Laphonza Butler, President of Emily's List, to Fill Feintstein's Senate Seat Laphonza Butler was set to be sworn in Monday as only the third Black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, and the second openly lesbian senator, after Governor Gavin Newsom moved swiftly to make his choice to fill Dianne Feinstein's seat.
SF Politics An 'RGB-Level Disaster'? Or Will Republicans Make Nice and Let Democrats Fill Feinstein's Seat on the Judiciary Committee? While the rumblings shall grow louder in the coming days about Governor Gavin Newsom's potential pick to appoint to Dianne Feinstein's now vacant seat in the Senate, one thing seems certain: Republicans are going to use this vacancy to their advantage however they can.
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 News California Congresswoman Was Among Last to See Feinstein Alive, Says She 'Worked to Her Dying Day' "I was the lucky one," says former House Rep. Jane Harman of Los Angeles after she revealed that she had a 5 p.m. meeting with Senator Dianne Feinstein at her home in Washington D.C. Thursday.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Lioness of the Senate and Onetime SF Mayor, Dies at Age 90 Senator Dianne Feinstein, the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a onetime mayor of San Francisco who led the city through a tragic and tumultuous time, died Thursday night at age 90.
SF News Feinstein's Daughter Heads to Court With Trustees Next Week; Senator Has No Time for Questions About This It sounds like the Chronicle caught Senator Dianne Feinstein off guard this morning, getting her on the phone after a Senate committee hearing, leading to some cleanup work by her staff and a follow-up phone call.
SF News Feinstein Family Feud Heats Up With New Elder Abuse Lawsuit Against Blum Estate Trustees It's hard to know who to believe more in the unfolding family dispute involving the estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein's late husband, Richard Blum. But what's clear is there's no love lost between Feinstein, her daughter from a previous marriage, and the senator's three stepdaughters.
SF News Sen. Dianne Feinstein Suffers Minor Fall While at Home In San Francisco It's not great when TMZ is breaking the news about Dianne Feinstein landing in the hospital. But that is what happened Tuesday night, after the 90-year-old senator reportedly tripped in her San Francisco home.
SF News Feinstein's Office Seeks 'Clarification' On Golden Gate Fields Track Shutdown Senator Dianne Feinstein (or one of her aides) penned a letter this week to the owners of Golden Gate Fields, the 80-year-old horse racing track on the Berkeley-Albany border that announced its closure last week.
