SF Politics Breed Says She'll Veto Free Muni In a rare use of the mayoral veto, Mayor London Breed said late Tuesday that she would not sign off on Supervisor Dean Preston's pilot project to offer free Muni rides for three months.
SF News As Drug Overdoses Hit All-Time High, Mayor Breed Proposes New Street Response Team San Francisco has seen drug overdoses skyrocket over the past year — a statistic only made worse by the pandemic. To address the crisis, Mayor Breed announced plans to create a new Street Overdose Response Team (SORT) to mitigate the number of future drug-related deaths.
SF Politics San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed Names City Attorney Dennis Herrera to Lead Public Utilities Commission After a scandal-plagued year at City Hall, San Francisco Mayor London Breed is going with a familiar name and face for her nomination for the next general manager of the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC): City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
SF News San Francisco Mayor Challenges Residents To Buy From Small Businesses, Eschew Amazon or Target, For 30 Days As the city and its small neighborhood businesses attempt to crawl back toward normalcy in the waning months of this pandemic, San Francisco's Mayor London Breed is challenging residents to put themselves on a diet from chain retail, and patronize local businesses only in the month of May.
SF News San Francisco, Marin, and Santa Clara Counties Move to 'Orange' Tier Allowing Gyms, Restaurants, and Bars to More Fully Reopen As expected, three more Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, advanced to the "Orange" tier in California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy rating system on Tuesday as new COVID cases reach levels not seen since October.
SF News Mayor London Breed Gets Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shot, Wants to Demonstrate That It's Safe SF Mayor London Breed went to a clinic in her home neighborhood, the Western Addition, to receive her COVID-19 vaccination today.
SF Politics Breed to Out-of-Town Criminals: 'Don't Come to Our City With All That Bulls**t' SF Mayor London Breed had some words of warning to criminals, particularly violent ones, on Wednesday as she announced a change in how law enforcement communicates about repeat offenders.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Delivers Upbeat State of the City Address Focused on Recovery On the same day that San Francisco emerges from a six-week-long lockdown, Mayor London Breed delivered her third State of the City address to a virtual audience, trying to focus on better days ahead.
SF News Mayor Breed Offers Up $62 Million More in Small Business Grants and Loans London Breed shook the tree at City Hall, and produced $50 million in loans and $12 million in grants for a very substantial small business COVID-19 economic relief package.
SF News Bay Area ICU Bed Availability Falls to 5.9%, While San Francisco's Stands at 35% SF Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax cautioned that it will be at least another week or two before we get a better picture of the impact of gatherings and holiday travel over Christmas and New Year's.
SF News Mayor Breed Says Stay-at-Home Orders Are Reducing Daily Case Counts in SF Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax took to Zoom again on Tuesday to give a press briefing on where things stand with the pandemic in San Francisco. And for a change — for the first time in two months really — the news was fairly good.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Takes to Medium to Swipe at Supervisors, Media Coverage of Homeless Hotel Program The mayor’s Medium post vaguely decries “what some people have been saying” and “a number of inaccurate statements” after the Board of Supervisors' unanimous vote to extend the shelter-in-place hotel program.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Announces New Stay-At-Home Orders for SF Ahead of State Mandate; Outdoor Dining to Cease Until January Starting Sunday night and extending until at least January 4, San Francisco restaurants will need to cease outdoor dining, personal services and indoor gyms will need to shut down, and retail businesses will need to enact stricter capacity limits.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says the 'Criticism Is Fair' Over Her French Laundry Dinner Mayor London Breed responded Thursday to an outcry this week over news that she had dined with a group of unrelated people at the French Laundry four weeks ago, and says, "I need to hold myself to a higher standard."
SF Politics SF Mayor Called Out for French Laundry Dinner; San Jose Mayor Apologizes for Thanksgiving Gathering We all know that not everyone is following pandemic isolation recommendations to the T these days. But when the leaders who daily try to drill the rules into us violate the rules themselves, it's a recipe for a whole lot of exasperation and outrage in the media and on social media.
SF News Breed and Colfax Hint at Further Health Orders But Are Shy on Specifics While they did not announce any further restrictions on activities and businesses in the city, they hinted that these would be coming tomorrow or later in the week.
SF Politics If London Breed Joins the Biden Administration, the SF Political Machine Will Kick Into High Gear to Choose New Mayor A whole lot of California politicians might be moving to Washington under a Biden-Harris Administration in the coming months, and SF Mayor London Breed could well be among them.
SF News 'We Must Triple-Down': San Francisco Officials Announce Closure of Offices, Reduction of Gym Capacity "We are going to proceed with caution to do everything we can to avoid a [more total] shutdown," Mayor London Breed said.
SF Politics London Breed Is On Short List To Take Kamala's Senate Seat It's an old joke in politics: "Every time you make an appointment, you make 20 enemies and one ingrate." And that's what Newsom is facing.
SF Politics Supervisors Pass Budget That Will Supposedly Eliminate $1.5 Billion Deficit The supes pretty much gave Mayor Breed what she wanted in a near-unanimous vote, the only difference being that the Board dips into the rainy day fund to give city employees raises.
SF News Mayor Breed on COVID Rules: 'I’m Tired of Doing All the Things You Are Tired of Doing' Six months into a pandemic, with ongoing restrictions on what businesses can be open and how and when, Mayor London Breed knows that even in mostly compliant, science-trusting San Francisco, people are reaching the end of their ropes in many cases.
SF News Breed Allocates Nearly Half a Billion Dollars to Fight COVID-19 In New Budget The mayor sets aside $446 million for coronavirus relief and services, but that’s contingent on no “second surge” of infections, and full reimbursement that the federal government has promised.
SF News A Legacy Of LGBTQ Activism and Medical Smarts Helped Spare San Francisco From the Worst of COVID A look back at the last 45 years of San Francisco's history yields several key moments that can be traced directly forward to the city's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News London Breed Says She's Celebrating Her Birthday On Zoom As SF Remains In COVID 'Red Zone' Family and friend gatherings, and birthday parties, remain some of the main points of COVID transmission according to San Francisco contact tracers. And thus Mayor London Breed says she'll be celebrating her birthday today in a socially distanced fashion.
