SF News Legal Battles For Control of the Dianne Feinstein Fortune Trust Already Underway Senator Dianne Feinstein is a very wealthy woman, thanks in large part to her late financier husband Richard Blum, but Blum’s estate trustees and Feinstein’s daughter are locked in a bitter battle over who gets control of that money.
SF Politics Retired Chronicle Columnist Says Feinstein Is a Democratic Hero For Sticking Around There's been talk since Feinstein's health-related absence from the Senate that even if she were to retire, Republicans would likely block Democrats' ability to replace her on the Judiciary Committee. And retired Chronicle columnist Andrew Ross agrees, and says she should be hailed as a hero.
SF Politics Poll: Two-Thirds of California Voters Think Feinstein Is ‘No Longer Fit’ to Serve In Senate A strong majority of California voters think nearly-90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein is “no longer fit to continue serving in the U.S. Senate,” though oddly, she’s actually gaining support among Republicans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein Reportedly Forgot She’s Been Absent From the Senate for Months The summertime “free movies in the park” schedule has dropped, a former BART cop is losing his job over a racist video, and Dianne Feinstein apparently forgot that she’d been missing from the Senate for nearly three months.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Arrives Back at Senate In Wheelchair, Says Shingles Effects Have Lingered Senator Dianne Feinstein was wheeled into the Senate chamber Wednesday around 3 p.m. Washington time, and she has revealed some more details about her current health status.
SF Politics Sen. Dianne Feinstein Reportedly on Plane Back to D.C. After three months away from the Senate, California Senator Dianne Feinstein is reportedly en route back to Washington, and is set to resume her duties as soon as Tuesday evening in the Senate.
SF Politics Feinstein (Absently) Issues Defiant Statement as NY Times Editorial Board Calls For Her Resignation As more high-profile Democrats and media outlets urge Senator Dianne Feinstein to just quit now that she’s been absent for nearly three months, Feinstein’s office puts out a rebellious statement that someone else probably wrote for her.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom In A Pickle Over Feinstein’s Lengthy Senate Absence Palo Alto High was locked down over the discovery of a threatening message, accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni had his arraignment delayed, and Gavin Newsom is stuck in paralysis-analysis mode over Dianne Feinstein’s continued absence from the Senate.
SF Politics Republicans Rebuff Dianne Feinstein's Attempt to Get Temporary Replacement on Judiciary In a move that is bound to raise the pressure on Dianne Feinstein to do the proverbial thing or get off the pot, Senate Republicans on Monday scoffed at the idea that they would allow a temporary Democratic replacement to assume Dianne Feinstein's seat on a key committee.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Asks to Be Temporarily Replaced on Judiciary Committee After attention fell this week on the impacts of her extended absence on votes on judicial nominees before the Senate, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she had asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily fill her seat on the Judiciary Committee.
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.
