SF News Mayor London Breed Hits the Campaign Trail to Tout Three New Ballot Measures London Breed held a rally to support Measures C, E, and F, which are all on the local ballot in March, and aim to deal with the empty downtown, public safety, and drug issues (sometimes controversially).
SF Politics SF Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track Alleges That Rev. Amos Brown Came to His Business and 'Threatened' Him A tempest in a teapot story from last week saw local rapper Chino Yang saying “someone extremely powerful” threatened him over a London Breed diss track. But we now learn it was allegedly just 82-year-old, long-ago SF supervisor Rev. Amos Brown.
SF Politics Projection Pranksters Hit Ferry Building During New Year’s Fireworks, Mock Mayor Breed, Elon Musk, Trump Some “projection activists” did a number on the SF Ferry Building just before the clock struck midnight for the fireworks show Sunday night, briefly displaying “STFU Musk” and other messages hammering Donald Trump and London Breed.
SF Politics Minor SF Rapper Records Diss Track About London Breed, Breed’s PR Team Throws Kitchen Sink at Him How soft of a rapper are you if you record a diss track about Mayor Breed, and then immediately apologize when her PR people complain? More importantly, why are pro-Breed PR forces coming after this obscure rapper with everything they’ve got?
SF Politics City Outreach Teams Say Around 60% of SF Homeless Refused Offers of Shelter the Past Three Months Mayor London Breed is again putting out the message that the city needs to enforce laws about camping in public spaces, ahead of a potential Supreme Court decision on the issue next year.
SF Politics SF’s Once Highly Touted Office of Reparations Loses Its Funding In Breed’s New Budget Cuts Remember that SF Office of Reparations that once considered $5 million lump-sum payments to Black San Franciscans? Now the city can’t even afford the $2 million a year to run that department, and the office is gutted in Mayor Breed’s budget cuts.
SF Politics In a Blast From the Past, Former SF Supervisor Mark Farrell Indicates He Might Run for Mayor Apparently there’s some purported campaign to draft former District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell to run against London Breed in the 2024 mayoral race, and polling suggests he’d have a good shot at winning the increasingly crowded race.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Sits Down With ABC News to Discuss SF's Reputation, Persistent Negative Attention, Signs of Hope After a year in which there was hardly a news outlet in the country that didn't pile on with a story about San Francisco circling the drain and facing an economic "doom loop," Mayor London Breed just gave another national news interview to discuss the actual situation on the ground.
SF News Mayor Breed Pledges Major Police, Ambassador Presence to Keep Union Square Safe for Holiday Shopping City leaders held a press conference Tuesday to jointly discuss safety measures being taken for the upcoming APEC summit in San Francisco, and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season in Union Square.
SF Politics SF Supe Floats Sweeping Charter Amendment to Enhance Some Mayoral Powers, and Curb Ballot-Box Governance San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has proposed an amendment to the city charter that would bolster the power of the mayor while also discouraging some of the ballot-measure battles that have gone on in recent years between the Board of Supervisors and the mayor.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Proposes Linking Cash Assistance With Compelling Recipients Into Drug Treatment "SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
SF Politics It Sure Looks Like Levi Strauss Heir Daniel Lurie Is Running for Mayor Against London Breed Levi Strauss heir and former anti-poverty group Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie just submitted preliminary filings to run for SF mayor in 2024, and he’s expected to officially announce on Tuesday.
SF Politics Benioff Praises City Cleanup For Dreamforce, Asks Why It Can't Be Like This Every Day Apparently Dreamforce went well this week, and city efforts to clean up the area around the Moscone Center so that conventioneers didn't have to step over bodies or needles were a success.
SF News Mayor London Breed Posts Video of Encampment Clearing Operation On Willow Street, Says City Is 'Working Hard' Thursday morning brought the latest encampment sweep on Willow Street, one of several alleys off of Van Ness near Polk Gulch that have been perennially popular campout spots for the city's homeless.
SF News Mayor Breed Still Pushing This Curious Idea of Turning Westfield Mall Into a Soccer Stadium An off-the-cuff remark by Mayor Breed in June apparently has fresh legs, as she said Tuesday that the city has now retained an architecture firm for a preliminary design work on a possible soccer stadium to replace the beleaguered Westfield San Francisco Centre.
SF Politics Raucous Rallies Outside Courthouse As Court Hears Appeal of SF Encampment Sweep Ban, But Gives No Decision Even Mayor London Breed was out shouting down the opposition at a Wednesday morning protest and counterprotest before an appeals hearing on the SF encampment sweep ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the protesters and rendered no decision today.
SF Politics Billionaire-Funded Group Linked to That 'Fentalife' Ad Campaign Commissions Report on City Hall's Failures The tech-funded, self-described moderate community nonprofit TogetherSF, which is linked to political action group TogetherSF Action and, through its biggest funder, to the SF Standard publication, has just commissioned a 76-page report that argues the reasons why SF's political system is broken.
Arts & Entertainment Ferris Wheel and 100-Foot Super Slide Coming to Four-Day Carnival In SF's Civic Center In her latest effort to enliven the Civic Center area and push the open-air drug trade back further into the Tenderloin, Mayor London Breed announced Monday that there's going to be a four-day carnival outside City Hall in late August.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Gets His Prison Sentence Shortened, Could Be Out Within a Year Breed’s brother Napoleon Brown has been in prison for nearly 22 years for the death of Lenties White, but got his long-sought resentencing Monday, a resentencing that could see him released within a year.
SF News SFPD Seizes 9.5 Kilos of Fentanyl In Two-Week Span of Drug Arrests In the span of 14 days, the San Francisco Police Department has seized more than one-third of the amount of fentanyl it seized in all of 2022, which is an indication of both the vast quantities being peddled and of stepped-up enforcement efforts.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Laments That 'All Eyes Are On San Francisco' Right Now When It Comes to Crime SF Mayor London Breed gave an interview to KTVU on Wednesday, pushing back on Governor Ron DeSantis and his hackneyed campaign video shot in the Tenderloin.
SF Politics Gay Shame Pillories London Breed, Gay SF Supervisors in Pride Month Installation at ATA The queer activist collective Gay Shame is at it again, this time with a Pride Month installation at Valencia Street’s ATA that delivers satirical mockeries of Mayor Breed, and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Scoffs at ‘Good Morning America’ For Saying It Was Too Dangerous To Shoot A Segment at Union Square SF Mayor London Breed has some words for a 'Good Morning America' reporter who claimed it was “simply too dangerous” to shoot a segment in Union Square, even though they clearly shot the segment anyway.
