SF Politics London Breed Would Like a Chinese University to Open a Satellite Campus In SF's Downtown Another of Mayor London Breed's goals in her upcoming trip to China, besides getting a panda for the San Francisco Zoo, is apparently to chat up a university there about opening a satellite campus in SF's struggling downtown.
SF News SF Mayor Heads to China Next Week to Promote Tourism — and Lobby For a Panda San Francisco Mayor London Breed is heading to China next week to conduct some "panda diplomacy," or, at least, to ask again for some, and to promote tourism to SF.
SF Politics Supervisors Override Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Density Limit Legislation, In Big Win for Peskin With two supervisors likely running for mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors flexed a supermajority and shot down Mayor Breed’s veto of their measure to limit large towers along parts of the city’s northern waterfront.
SF News Fake Post About SF 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor's Face on Them Goes Viral An SF artist really wanted to bring rice balls to Bay Area 7-Elevens — so she made a bunch with London Breed's face on them and got the hype going.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Wants To Keep That Giant Ferris Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf Another Year and a Half The 150-foot Ferris wheel that’s technically known as the SkyStar Observation Wheel is scheduled to shut down April 30, but could stay at Fisherman’s Wharf through October 2025 if Mayor Breed gets her way.
SF News SFPD Reopens Investigation Into Death of 63-Year-Old Asian Woman, Breed Demands Video Be Released The July 2023 death of 63-year-old Yanfang Wu is back in the headlines, and now more politically charged, as Mayor London Breed is demanding that SFPD release the video of the shoving incident that killed Wu.
SF Politics Changing to 'A City of Yes': SF Mayor London Breed Touts Accomplishments In State of the City Address Coinciding with Biden's State of the Union address this evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed gave her annual State of the City address to supporters and business leaders today, touting all the positive change she's seeing in SF.
SF Politics Breed-Backed SF Ballot Measures on Cops, Drug Screening Appear to be Cruising to Big Wins In a very-low-turnout election Tuesday, SF voters handed Mayor London Breed a couple of victories on police powers and drug screening for welfare recipients, while an affordable housing bond she abandoned is still too close to call.
SF Politics Yes Indeed, Aaron Peskin Is Running for Mayor, According to Multiple Media Outlets Supervisor Aaron Peskin has repeatedly said he’s not running to be mayor of San Francisco in November 2024, but it was easy to dismiss those claims as a chess-match ploy. And now, multiple local media outlets say that yes, Peskin will run for mayor this year.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed Tries to Suggest Hope That Macy's Won't Actually Leave It's certainly not great news for Mayor London Breed's bid for reelection this year that another major department store is announcing its closure in the heart of SF. And now Breed seems to be hedging on the news.
SF News SF City Leaders Hold Rally, Reiterate Plan to Prosecute Fentanyl Dealers For Homicide A plan that was announced last fall to begin prosecuting fentanyl dealers for homicide in cases of fatal overdoses is moving forward, and a law enforcement task force dedicated to the project is set to launch soon.
SF Politics A Guide to Your March 5th SF Ballot Measures, Which London Breed’s Fingerprints Are All Over There are seven San Francisco measures on your March 5 primary ballot. But many seem trojan-horse proxy measures to help Mayor London Breed get reelected this November, in a very difficult reelection environment.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Mark Farrell Beating London Breed in First-Choice Vote, and Breed Trailing In Ranked-Choice The first poll conducted since Mark Farrell jumped into the SF mayor’s race shows him edging London Breed slightly in first-choice votes, while Daniel Lurie does the best in second-choice votes, and there are generally low approval ratings for Breed.
SF News After Pushback From Chinatown Residents, Breed Cancels Plan For Sober Living Facility at Hotel North Beach Less than two weeks after announcing plans to convert the Hotel North Beach into the city's first sober living facility for formerly homeless people, SF Mayor London Breed has canceled those plans due to community objections.
SF News Swedish Crown Princess Visits San Francisco to Open New Consulate Crown Princess Victoria, the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, visited Sacramento, Palo Alto, and California on a diplomatic trip to strengthen relations between the state and country.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Formally Announces He's Running for Mayor, Giving Breed Three Moderate Challengers Former SF supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell officially threw his hat in the ring to challenge London Breed for mayor this November, so now Breed has three moderate opponents (two of whom are pretty wealthy).
Bay Area Sports London Breed and Kansas City Mayor Make Most Predictable Super Bowl Bet Possible The mayors of SF and Kansas City made their obligatory Super Bowl friendly wager Friday morning on MSNBC, both offering up the most extremely obvious food dishes associated with their cities.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Backs Republican-Led Campaign to Overhaul Prop 47 Facing less-than-outstanding poll numbers in the November election and being hammered by her opponents on crime, Mayor London Breed campaigned Thursday for a Republican-authored effort to redo the state’s Prop. 47 sentencing law.
SF News Mayor London Breed Hopes to Lure Historically Black Colleges to Downtown SF With New Program On Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a plan to begin offering summer classes through historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the city, and the intention of luring at least one of those HBCUs to establish a satellite campus downtown.
SF Politics Poll Shows Daniel Lurie Beating London Breed by 18 Points Head-to-Head, But Breed Still Leads If You Count All Candidates The good news for mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is that a new poll shows him 18 points ahead of London Breed in a head-to-head matchup. The bad news for him is that Breed’s still ahead by five points if you count all candidates, though ranked choice favors Lurie.
SF News Mayor Breed Touts Claim That Crime Is Down 7% In SF Over the Last Year As the 2024 mayoral race heats up, Mayor London Breed is hyping fresh statistics saying that overall crime was down by 7% in San Francisco in 2023, though that number depends on how you cook the books.
SF News University of California Might Give London Breed That SF Expansion Campus She’s Been Hankering For It seemed like a desperate trial balloon to fill vacant office space when Mayor London Breed asked the UC system to build an expanded campus in San Francisco, but now the university acknowledges they are at least “exploring” the idea.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Comes Out Against Supervisors' Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Passed This Week Breed issued a statement on Friday that said that the resolution is not the “official view of the entire city of San Francisco.”
SF Politics Rev. Amos Brown Issues Apology Over Alleged Intimidation of Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track A week after he denied doing any such thing, longtime SF civil rights leader Rev. Amos Brown issued a formal apology for intimidating an SF restaurant owner and rapper who made a diss track and video about Mayor London Breed.
SF News The San Francisco Zoo Might be Getting a Giant Panda, Everybody! Chinese diplomats crowing about the success of the APEC summit say they’re ready to send some more pandas to U.S. zoos, and San Francisco is reportedly on the short list for getting one.
