SF Politics Feinstein Sidelined With ‘Health Matter,' Which We Now Know Is Shingles Senator Dianne Feinstein has been missing Senate votes all week, and this morning her office announced she was “dealing with a health matter," which is now reported to be a shingles infection.
SF Politics Feinstein Makes It Official, She Will Retire After Next Year Though her ongoing effectiveness in the Senate has been questioned by colleagues over the last year, Dianne Feinstein has made it official that she doesn't intend to retire before her current term is up.
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 Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF Politics KRON4 Bumps Into Dianne Feinstein at SFO, She Talks Gun Control Not even Senator Dianne Feinstein was immune to the long lines at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of Thanksgiving weekend, and a KRON4 reporter got lucky with a chance to buttonhole Feinstein as she was held up in line at SFO.
SF Politics Another Story Comes Out About Dianne Feinstein Sounding Confused, This Time About Stopgap Spending Bill Aides to elderly Senator Dianne Feinstein appeared to be having some difficulty debriefing her on Thursday on a routine vote, and the confused discussion was overheard by a reporter and has now become news.
SF Politics NY Mag Does Cover Story on Dianne Feinstein Featuring Scarily Unflattering Photo It's a testament to the dearth of print media in San Francisco's current era that New York Magazine has just done a cover story and lengthy, historical profile of Dianne Feinstein this week.
SF Politics The New York Times Has Now Done Their Take on the Dianne Feinstein-In-Decline Story It took two weeks and change, but the New York Times has now turned around and done its own version of the story that the San Francisco Chronicle did about Feinstein's ongoing fitness for office and whether she'd ever willfully retire.
SF Politics Is It Sexist to Call Out Feinstein's Memory Decline When Male Senators Have Stayed In Office Much Longer? The weekend brought even more press attention to Senator Dianne Feinstein and her reported cognitive decline. And some are suggesting that laying open this open secret to the public is sexist at its core.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Defends Herself as Chronicle Editorial Board Calls on Other Democrats to Get Her to Retire The Chronicle Editorial Board says the time is drawing nigh for tough talk with Feinstein, and "denial is a hallmark of those suffering from memory loss and attendant illnesses."
SF Politics Newsom May Get Another Appointee: Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Mental Fitness Now the Subject of Investigative Report Rumors about Senator Dianne Feinstein getting pretty dotty at the age of 88 go back well over a year now, but things apparently are getting more serious with colleagues suggesting she has some very bad days.
SF News Dianne Feinstein Announces Her Husband Has Died From Cancer Financier Richard Blum married Feinstein in 1980 while she was still mayor of San Francisco, and the SF native brought a few of those bison to Golden Gate Park. He passed away Sunday night after a bout with lung cancer.
SF Politics Yikes! Feinstein Could Be In Line of Presidential Succession If Dems Hold Senate Next Year A key Senate retirement could move 88-year-old Dianne Feinstein into the No. 3 spot in the presidential line of succession if Democrats keep control of the Senate — except she would be 89 if and when this happens.
SF Politics Feinstein Introduces Likely Doomed Bill Requiring Vaccinations or Negative COVID Tests for Domestic Air Travel Senator Dianne Feinstein today introduced a bill in the Senate that aims to prevent a new winter surge of COVID infections spurred by holiday travel. But between the airline industry and Senate Republicans, this seems doomed to fail out of the gate.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She's Not Retiring, But Newsom Says He'll Appoint a Black Woman to the Senate If She Does Senator Feinstein told the press Tuesday they were "making a mountain out of a molehill" after Newsom made some comments about replacing her with a Black woman if he had the chance.
SF Politics Feinstein’s Approval Rating Hits an All-Time Low of Just 35% Can we recall her instead? Senator Dianne Feinstein just registered the lowest approval rating in her 29 years in the Senate, as barely a third of Californians think she’s doing a good job.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She’s Totally Cool With Senators Who Helped Incite Capitol Riot Former SF mayor and 87-year-old senator with a $94 million net worth Dianne Feinstein is finding ever new ways to infuriate her constituents, this time sticking up for the bogus Electoral College challenges from Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
SF News NorCal Woman Has Allegedly Been Collecting Unemployment Benefits In Dianne Feinstein's Name In one of many cases of EDD fraud being investigated, a Sacramento area woman who used to work for the EDD apparently cashed in $21,000 in fraudulent claims using the name and social security number of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Faces Fresh Round of ‘Rumors of Her Cognitive Decline’ The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein Steps Down From Judiciary Committee Role Sen. Dianne Feinstein has caved to pressure from the Left and will remove herself from a powerful Senate committee, the Twin Peaks tunnel will begin its expensive fix next week, and the GSA has given Biden the transition nod at last.
SF Politics Feinstein Corners Amy Coney Barrett Into Non-Answers, But Lands No Punches; Harris Grills Her on ACA Sen. Feinstein needled the Supreme Court nominee on the two issues for which she was picked — to overturn Roe v. Wade and to hand Trump re-election — but DiFi didn’t really manage to swat any flies.
SF News DiFi to Non-Mask-Wearing States: 'No More Federal Stimulus For You' Senator Dianne Feinstein just pulled a very Dianne Feinstein move, announcing a proposed amendment to the next federal stimulus package that would withhold money from states where face masks in public are not yet mandatory.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi Weigh In On Trump's Historic Senate Acquittal Welp, the inevitable has come to pass. Senate Republicans are immoral partisan loyalists (except for Mitt Romney). And President Trump shall remain in office until (hopefully only until) next January.
SF Politics Joe Biden Is In The Bay Area Today, And You Can See Him For Just $2,800 A $1,500 lunch with Biden is already underway in Palo Alto, but you can catch him at Feinstein’s mansion later today for the affordable price of $2,800.
SF News [Update] Rally Over ICE Detention Center Conditions Turns Into March That Shuts Down Market Street A noon rally in SF outside Sen. Feinstein's office quickly became a large protest that shut down Market Street and proceeded to 7th and Mission.
