SF Politics Breed’s New Budget Defunds Police by $120 Million to Cut $1.5 Billion Deficit SFPD and the sheriff’s department get defunded by the tune of $120 million in Mayor Breed’s just-announced, $26 billion two-year budget.
SF News San Francisco Lands On State Watch List As Hospitalizations Rise San Francisco, which has remained relatively lucky since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when it comes to case counts and hospital censuses, just landed on the state watch list due to an increase in hospitalizations.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Vents to 'Vogue' About White Progressives, and Those Protesters Who Came to Her House The interview covers a range of topics, including the needs of the Black community in San Francisco, her frustration with the mostly white progressives she encounters in local politics, and handling the ongoing pandemic in San Francisco and its large homeless population.
SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisor Walton Both Test Negative For COVID-19, Will Get Tested Again After both potentially being exposed to the coronavirus this week, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton have tested negative — though Breed says she will be tested again next week as a precaution.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Tested After Possible COVID Exposure San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday evening that she and Supervisor Shamann Walton had attended an event recently where they may have been exposed to the coronavirus.
SF News Mayor Breed On Reopening Pause: 'We Need These Numbers to Go Down' San Francisco recorded just 28 new COVID-19 cases between Monday and Tuesday this week, however the city's new case metrics are still well above the public health department's goal, and thus outdoor bars and indoor dining have to remain on an indefinite pause.
SF Politics Hotel Relocations for Tenderloin Homeless Part of Lawsuit Settlement Between City and UC Hastings The relocation of at least a dozen people living in tents on sidewalks on Thursday appears to be part of a settlement just announced between UC Hastings — which sued the city last month over the increasing level of squalor in the neighborhood — and the City of San Francisco.
SF Politics Breed Announces Plan to Remove Police From All Non-Criminal Calls in San Francisco Neighbor disputes, mental health crises, and complaints about the homeless will no longer be part of the purview of the San Francisco Police Department under a new four-point plan unveiled by the mayor on Thursday.
SF Politics San Francisco Will Lift Its Curfew Thursday The unprecedented 8 p.m. curfew imposed by Mayor London Breed on Sunday will come to an end after four consecutive nights, lifting at 5 a.m. on Thursday, June 4.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says SF Restaurants Can Resume Outdoor Dining June 15; Bars, Nail Salons and Gyms Can Reopen Mid-August Mayor London Breed laid out specific timeframes for the next phases of San Francisco's reopening of businesses on Thursday, and for the first time restaurants, bars, hair salons, and gyms have some target dates to resume semi-regular business.
SF Politics Sunshine Ordinance Dump of Mayor Breed’s Texts Shows She Orders Lots of Homeless Sweeps Gobs of Mayor London Breed’s text messages were posted online Monday, and they display some serious micromanaging of SFPD’s homeless sweeps.
SF News Mayor Breed Gives Green Light For Most SF Retail to Open For Curbside Sales and Delivery on Monday In her daily press briefing, Mayor London Breed said Wednesday that SF's retail businesses could go ahead and reopen on May 18 for curbside sales. But prior to issuing a similar order for San Mateo County, the outspoken health officer there has some grim words of caution.
SF Politics UC Hastings Blasts Breed’s Plan to Clean Up COVID-19 Ravaged Tenderloin Leave it to the law school to sue the city, and even though the mayor specifically crafted a plan to mollify their desire to see the crowded sidewalks more clear, UC Hastings is keeping the heat on.
SF Politics Protesters Stage 'Die-In' Over Homeless Hotel Issue Outside Mayor's Home A group of faith leaders and protesters from the Do No Harm Coalition staged a "die-in" outside of Mayor London Breed's Lower Haight apartment on Thursday evening, in order to put further pressure on the mayor to house the homeless in empty hotel rooms.
SF Politics CDC Gives SF A+ for Social Distancing, But Homeless Shelter Outbreak May Curve That Grade San Francisco gets a lovely acknowledgment for limiting the COVID-19 spread, though critics are calling out foot-dragging on the homeless shelter front.
SF Politics SF Turns Moscone Center and Palace of Fine Arts Into Homeless Shelters; Supes Decry Subpar Conditions The Moscone Center and the Palace of Fine Arts have been transformed into ersatz homeless shelters with bed mats on the floor and minimal social distance. After some photos came out of the grim Moscone setup, several supervisors are making more noise about the potentially unsafe situation.
SF News San Francisco Offers Free 12-Hour Child Care For Healthcare Workers at 35 Rec & Parks Sites In a move that will hopefully make you love our fair city and its response to the coronavirus crisis, San Francisco is providing free child care for local healthcare workers in 12-hour shifts that reflect the shifts that nurses and doctors tend to work.
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.
