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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Breed Has Had It With Preston as the Two Square Off Over Drug User Arrests

Mayor London Breed's controversial new "Intoxication Detention program" was the subject of some back-and-forth at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, with Supervisor Dean Preston asking some pointed questions, and Breed forcibly pushing back.

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Breed Getting Guff For Not Being Able to Name a Good Nightclub — While Speaking To Nightclub Owners

Some remarks at Monday’s 2023 Nightlife and Entertainment Summit have Mayor Breed getting some blowback from nightclub owners, when said she couldn’t think of a good nightclub in San Francisco.

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New Multi-Agency 'Command Center' to Open Near UN Plaza to Disrupt Drug-Selling

The SF Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor's Office announced Friday that they would be opening a new join "command center" on Market Street near Civic Center, in order to coordinate with the SFPD and public health department to try to shut down open-air drug markets.