Business & Tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Sucks Up to Trump With $1 Million Inauguration Donation It’s a little awkward for incoming mayor Daniel Lurie that his top transition adviser is now a Donald Trump donor, as AI titan Sam Altman has donated $1 million to the Donald Trump inauguration, obviously hoping to curry favor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF GOP Chair Named By Trump to Civil Rights Post Former SF GOP Chair Harmeet Dhillon has landed herself a plum post in the Trump Justice Department; the Bay Area Syrian community is celebrating the fall of the Assad regime; and a 5.8M earthquake on the Nevada border could have been triggered by last week's quake off the coast.
SF Politics With Final House Seat Decided In California, Republicans Set to Have a One-Vote Majority Until Vacancies Are Filled California's 13th Congressional District has flipped from Republican to Democrat, and with that race settled, we now know that the Republicans yet again hold the slimmest of majorities in the House — 220 seats to Democrats' 215.
SF Politics Trump Names Anti-Lockdown Stanford Doctor to Lead NIH The ridiculous clown car that is the second Trump administration just gained another clown.
SF Politics Meet Adena Ishii, the Political Newcomer Who Will Be the Next Mayor of Berkeley More than two weeks after Election Day, the City of Berkeley has finally tabulated the votes and determined that its new mayor will be former League of Women Voters chapter president Adena Ishii, the city’s first Asian American mayor.
SF Politics DA Pamela Price Concedes, Accepts That She Has Been Recalled After appearing to have lost against a recall effort by a wide margin, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price finally conceded Monday at a press conference in Oakland.
SF News Chyanne Chen Claims Victory in District 11, Leads by 190 Votes Chyanne Chen has claimed victory in the race to become the next District 11 Supervisor, in a desperately needed ray of hope for progressives. She will be succeeding the termed-out Ahsha Safai.
SF News District 11 Still Too Close To Call, Chen Leads by 90 Votes She has experienced a late surge over Lai thanks to votes transferred to her from third-place finisher Ernest “EJ” Jones. In that area, she leads 2,833 to Lai's 1,566.
SF Politics Moderates Flip SF Board of Supervisors’ Progressive Majority, But Breed Gets One More Chance to Tip the Scales Current election results show the SF Board of Supervisors has flipped to a slight moderate majority, but we may not be talking enough about how Mayor Breed will get one more free appointment to the board on her way out.
SF News Prop K Has Passed, Whether Sunset District Residents Like It or Not An SF debate that’s been raging since early in the pandemic has just been settled at the ballot box, as a two-mile stretch of the Great Highway will indeed go car-free, because the measure Prop K now has enough votes to pass.
SF Politics Dean Preston Concedes SF District 5 Election His loss reflects a recent rightward swing throughout the city, where moderate candidates have found success across the ballot at the expense of progressives.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Recalled, and So Is DA Pamela Price, as the Chronicle Is Calling Both Races With the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao leading by a massive percentage, and in the absence of anyone else making the call, the SF Chronicle is calling the race for the recall proponents. Same, too, for the recall of DA Pamela Price.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Regrets There Was No Open Primary, Points Finger at Biden For Not Stepping Aside Earlier The blame game among Democrats had already begun Tuesday night as election returns began signaling a return to power for the outraged orange egotist. And House Speaker Emerita has already given an interview to the New York Times revealing her feelings.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Sweeps Into Mayor’s Office Promising ‘Change,’ But It’s Unclear What His Administration Will Look Like The Mayor-Elect of San Francisco Daniel Lurie is still a walking question mark in many respects, but there are some educated guesses on how the wealthy heir and nonprofit executive is going to govern and try to fulfill his campaign promises.
SF Politics London Breed Concedes Mayoral Election as Lurie Maintains Lead In Ballot Update; D1 Race Is Dead Even Daniel Lurie continued to have a comfortable lead in the ranked-choice tally for San Francisco mayor, and while incumbent Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin made some small gains, Breed announced she has already conceded the race.
SF Politics Nearly 17% of SF Voted for Trump, and 34% of Visitacion Valley Voted for Trump The latest SF election tallies show that nearly one in five San Franciscans voted for Donald Trump, and by neighborhood, Vis Valley is the Trumpiest of neighborhoods, where nearly one in three voters went for Trump.
SF Politics Tuesday's Election Did Not Produce Big Wins For TogetherSF, Despite Spending a Lot of Michael Moritz's Money After spending nearly $3.2 million of his own money in this election, Michael Moritz can't be extremely pleased by the results that he and his TogetherSF Action group were able to achieve.
SF Politics Yes, the Democrats Can Still Win the House of Representatives, and California Could Seal the Deal We interrupt your doomscrolling with a flicker of hope, which is that the Democrats can still win control of the House of Representatives, but they’ll need California to do it.
SF Politics California Voters Say Yes to Tougher Crime Sentences, No to Rent Control Most statewide California ballot measure results still cannot be projected, but the two big ones can, as tougher sentencing for crimes was approved, while an expansion of rent control was rejected.
SF Politics No Winners Yet in SF Supervisor Races, But Moderates Might Pick Off a Couple Progressive Seats Not one candidate can declare victory yet in the five SF Board of Supervisors races, but two YIMBY candidates have slight leads for Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin’s current seats, while the District 1 race hangs by a thread of just 35 votes.
SF Politics Recalls of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price Appear to Be Passing Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao looks likely to be recalled based on preliminary election results, and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price also looks to be getting recalled, by a wide margin.
SF News Daniel Lurie Poised to Be Next Mayor of San Francisco After Spending Record Sum In Election Daniel Lurie, the billionaire heir to a Levi's jeans fortune who, with the help of his mother's wealth, launched a campaign to become mayor of San Francisco, is well ahead of incumbent London Breed in ranked-choice votes.
SF Politics Early Results Have Car-Free Great Highway Ahead, Prop D Commission Reform Losing While there are still plenty of votes left to count, the Prop K measure to make the Great Highway car-free has a comfortable lead, while the big-money effort to slash SF City Hall commissions is way behind.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Extremely Nervous Bay Area Braces for Election Results Muni was hamstrung by technical issues much of the day; a man was run over and killed by a pick-up truck at the Emeryville Target; and here’s where to get election results tonight for the the state and local races they won’t be covering on cable TV.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day’s Billie Joe Shares Trump-Bashing Casino Anecdote in Election Eve Instagram Videos The East Bay’s own Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day endorsed Kamala Harris in Instagram videos posted the night before the election, but also shared a tale that makes it clear why he probably won’t be asked back to perform at Trump hotels or casinos.
