SF News Day Around the Bay: London Breed Tells CNN 'People Are Making Adjustments' Golden Gate Bridge tolls plummet and bridge officials now want emergency funding, Newsom offers $150M in emergency funding to protect the homeless, and London Breed pushed back on Jake Tapper's calling out of San Francisco for not isolating ourselves enough.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor London Breed Lunches At One Market, Restaurant Wants To Encourage People To Keep Eating Out Mayor London Breed on Thursday had lunch at One Market, in part symbolically to encourage San Franciscans to support the local economy and keep patronizing businesses, even as they practice varying degrees of social distancing.
SF News London Breed Issues Letter to Mike Pence Calling Administration Response to Virus 'Anemic' San Francisco Mayor London Breed publicly slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for its failure of leadership with regard to the growing coronavirus pandemic.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Pushes Again For Safe-Injection Sites Mayor London Breed and District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney are both backing a new local ordinance that would allow permitting for non-profits to open safe-injection sites in San Francisco — something that still needs the blessing of statewide legislation before it can happen.
SF Politics ‘Girlfriend 1’ Identified in Mohammed Nuru Scandal, And It’s Not London Breed The Chronicle has managed to identify “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI criminal complaint against Mohammed Nuru, and it’s high-ranking mayor’s office director Sandra Zuniga.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Says Nuru Situation Is 'A Learning Experience' Days after the mayor revealed her longtime personal relationship with former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru — who resigned last week amid a federal investigation — she's saying that she now is "re-evaluating" all of her personal relationships.
SF Politics Invoice Suggests Mayor Had Parade Float Paid For By Local Restaurateur A new piece of evidence suggests that Mayor London Breed may have received an undisclosed gift from local restaurateur Nick Bovis, the alleged co-conspirator who was indicted by the feds last month along with former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru.
SF News London Breed Says No To $2.7M In Funding That Would Help Bring Back CCSF Classes Yes, the same San Francisco mayor who once took an over $5K "gift" from ousted Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru just vetoed funding to the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), money that would've gone toward reinstating hundreds of canceled classes.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Admits Relationship With Nuru, As Well As a $5600 'Gift' From Him One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.
SF Politics Breed Wants Ballot Measure to Streamline Housing in Wake of SB-50 Defeat The mayor introduces a ballot measure effort to eliminate red tape for affordable housing developments, but the definition of “affordable” is a bit mind-boggling.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Endorses Bloomberg Because She Thinks He Can Beat Trump In a move that is sure to thrill almost no one in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has thrown her endorsement weight — such as it is — behind former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg in the upcoming Democratic presidential primary.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Announces Plan For 30 New Childcare Centers Across SF Saying that "access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable," Breed announced a plan Thursday to open 30 new childcare centers across the city.
SF Politics Aging and Disabled Activists Gather at Mayor's Office to Protest for Housing Subsidies A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.
SF Politics Scaled-Down Mental Health SF Plan Finalized, Set for Supervisors’ Approval The formerly universal mental health plan will still treat as many as 4,000 people in need, and the mayor and supervisors’ compromise version looks likely to cruise through City Hall by next week.
SF News Three ‘Pit Stop’ Porta-Potties to Remain Open 24 Hours As Program Gets Renewed The potty will keep going all night long at three Pit Stops citywide, but Sup. Matt Haney yearns for all of them to be open through the wee hours.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Can Seek Reprieve In Manslaughter Charge, Judge Rules The mayor’s brother Napoleon Brown won the chance at a re-sentencing in his manslaughter conviction from 14 years ago, thanks to a ruling that just came from a San Francisco Superior Court judge.
SF Politics Fringe Mayoral Candidate Attacks London Breed With Pretty Obviously Racist Billboard Ellen Lee Zhou’s bonkers billboard depicts the mayor in outrageously offensive fashion, and the spelling errors are the least problematic thing about this campaign ad.
SF News Suzy Loftus Sworn In As Interim San Francisco DA, Despite Backlash After an ungodly amount of political hoopla and controversy, Suzy Loftus was officially sworn in as interim District Attorney of San Francisco by Mayor Breed yesterday, inside the book-boarded office she’ll occupy for the next few weeks – or, potentially, much longer.
SF News New Poll Finds Mayor Breed's Approval Rating 'Favorable,' But San Franciscans Question Her Job Performance As the November elections loom, one poll conducted by Public Policy Polling (PPP), headquartered in North Carolina, and another by Oakland’s EMC Research show that San Franciscans like Mayor Breed, but they still don't think she's gotten the city on the right track.
SF Politics Supervisors and Mayor at Odds Over Dueling Mental Health Plans After Supervisors Haney and Ronen introduced their sweeping Mental Health SF initiative, Mayor Breed counters with her own Urgent Care SF plan, which is ironically the less urgent of the two.
SF News SF Offered to Buy PG&E’s Local Power Lines for $2.5 Billion, Beleaguered Utility Turned It Down As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.
SF Politics DA Gascón Suddenly Resigns, Mayor Breed Shivs His Successor And Installs Suzy Loftus The District Attorney’s office looks like an episode of “Succession” — literally — as Gascón suddenly quits a month before the election, and Breed power-plays candidate Suzy Loftus into the job.
SF Politics Supes Haney And Ronen Unveil Sweeping Mental Health Bill, Mayor Is Quick To Oppose It Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.
SF News Mayor Breed Discusses Her $5 Million 'Rapid Re-Housing' And Eviction Prevention Budget Perhaps in an attempt to get ahead of the story, discussed over the weekend, about the pushback she's getting from the Board of Supervisors for her affordable housing-expediting City Charter
SF News Local Unions Likely To Oppose Mayor's $600 Million Affordable Housing Bond What's set to be the largest housing bond in San Francisco history could be tanked on the November ballot by vocal opposition from local labor leaders who are concerned about a union-related provision relating to such housing bonds.
