SF News Governor Newsom Has Signed the Bill to Legalize Cannabis Cafes Across California Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill to legalize food and beverage sales inside dispensary lounges has gotten by on the second try, and Amsterdam-style cafes and performance venues could be popping up in your local pot shops next year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matt Haney’s ‘Cannabis Cafe’ Bill Cruises to State Assembly Approval Assemblymember Matt Haney’s latest attempt to bring Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes to California just overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly, and hopes to avoid getting vetoed by Gavin Newsom as it was last year.
SF News Newsom Vetoes Wiener’s Magic Mushrooms Bill, Haney’s Bill That Would Have Allowed Cannabis Cafes Two groundbreaking drug bills from SF's state legislators went to pot on Gavin Newsom’s desk, as he’s vetoed state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.
SF News Haney's New Bill Would Allow Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafes that Serve Food, Drinks With Weed The Amsterdam-style cannabis cafe could be coming to California under a new Assembly bill from Matt Haney, and you’d be able to have regular food and beverages while toking up, but alcoholic drinks would not be in the mix.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.
SF Politics Campos Won’t Run Against Haney Again in June, Even Though His Name Will Be On the Ballot The AD-17 state Assembly seat situation seems resolved (for now), because after Matt Haney’s landslide victory Tuesday, his opponent David Campos says he won’t run in the June primary or November general elections for the seat.
SF Politics Matt Haney Claims Victory In Assembly Race, Giving Mayor Breed a Board Seat Appointment SF's District 6 will be getting a new appointed supervisor and the city is getting a new face in the Assembly after Tuesday's runoff election — it's just that we'll have to vote on this seat twice more this year.
SF Politics It's Election Day #2 of 4 For the SF Assembly Seat Sought By David Campos and Matt Haney Today's the day that San Francisco voters decide who will take David Chiu's vacant Assembly seat for District 17 in the state legislature — at least who will occupy it for the next eight months.
SF Politics New Mailers From Pro-Haney PAC Attack Campos for Working for Boudin A new batch of attack-ad mailers from the California Association of Realtors — and not the Matt Haney campaign — says “We can’t trust Campos in the Assembly” because he worked on Chesa Boudin’s staff.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Submits ‘Draft Final Map’ After High Drama, Twitter Fights, and Half the Task Force Walking Out A bonkers weekend of redistricting fireworks saw profane Twitter fights between supervisors, and four members storming out of a late night meeting in protest, but the map’s final draft is now complete.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Endorses Matt Haney in AD-17 Race, Which Of Course, Because She Would Get to Appoint His Replacement Two weeks out from the AD-17 special election for the state Assembly, Mayor London Breed has endorsed Supervisor Matt Haney over David Campos — no surprise considering that Haney’s exit from the Board of Supervisors would award Breed the chance for a hand-picked replacement.
SF Politics Campos Draws Groans, Backlash for Saying His Campaign Is ‘Fighting and Running Like Ukrainians’ in Assembly Race A hamfisted comparison by David Campos that his campaign was “fighting and running like Ukrainians” in his state Assembly race against Matt Haney is getting eyerolls and disapproval, right as early voting kicks off.
SF Politics Haney Forces State to Change Campos’ Ballot Description, as the Two Campaigns Try to Manufacture Differences Haney just won a legal ruling to change David Campos’ ballot description from ‘civil rights attorney’ to ‘criminal justice administrator,’ as the two progressive rivals look to gin up differences between them for next month’s runoff election.
SF Politics Haney Has Slight Edge, But Assembly Seat Will Go to April Runoff Election SF Supervisor Matt Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are heading for a runoff election in April, after neither received more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday in the race for David Chiu's former Assembly seat.
SF Politics Low-Turnout, Seemingly Minor School Board and State Assembly Elections Today Have High Stakes Even CNN is covering today’s SF school board recall and state assembly special election, and while results could make national waves, a ho-hum San Francisco electorate is hardly turning out to vote thus far.
SF Politics New State Assembly District Redraws Are In, Committee Scraps 'Majority-White' AD-17 Map The final redistricting maps are in, and the assembly district David Campos and Matt Haney are running for is slightly reconfigured, but not as whitewashed as originally proposed.
SF News Breed Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in the Tenderloin Over ‘Nasty Streets’ An unusual declaration of emergency in the Tenderloin over opiate use may win praise for adding more cops and treatment options, but Breed might get pushback for the enhanced surveillance, and who knows
SF Politics There Could be Four Elections for This Same D-17 State Assembly Seat in 2022 This February’s special election pitting Matt Haney against Davis Campos for David Chiu’s old seat could be the first of four elections for the exact same seat in just a nine-month span.
SF Politics Rejected SoMa High-Rise Suddenly the Main Issue In Haney-Campos State Assembly Race The two progressive candidates running for David Chiu’s now-vacated assembly seat have finally found an issue to disagree on, and you’re probably going to hear a lot more about one specific housing project the board of supervisors shot down in late October.
SF News Supes Shoot Down 27-Story SoMa Residential Tower Over Seismic, Displacement Concerns What is currently a parking lot owned by Nordstrom’s at Sixth and Stevenson Streets was slated to become a residential high-rise, but was denied on appeal as supervisors did not trust the geotechnical review.
SF Politics David Chiu Likely to Be SF's Next City Attorney, Setting Up Race For His Assembly Seat The winds of San Francisco politics are going to strengthen in the coming weeks, with potential shakeups that will likely bring us a new assemblymember in Sacramento, and potentially a shift in power on the Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Free Muni Might Happen Under a Three-Month Pilot, But Maybe Not As Soon as Supervisors Want There's been an argument in recent months over whether or not to use this limbo moment as the pandemic fades to finally offer Muni rides for free. But can the system handle a sudden surge in ridership (if that actually happens)?
Arts & Entertainment SF Will Prioritize Struggling and Legacy Venues for Entertainment Relief Fund — But the Fund Needs Private Donations The SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish the San Francisco Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, as a way to funnel money to struggling music venues and arts institutions that have been shuttered by the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.
SF Politics Supervisor Haney Floats a Universal Basic Income Program for SF Matt Haney is calling for a San Francisco guaranteed income, but did not say how much money people would get, and merely hoped the funding would come from a “private philanthropist foundation or something else.”
