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26 Sep 2024

Which SF Mayoral Candidates Are Ready for Climate Change?

The City is facing a climate crisis and the mayoral candidates must be able to handle it, while also working with other cities and agencies to adapt and find solutions. But can and will they?

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19 Sep 2024

Is the SF Parent Coalition Malicious or Incompetent?

With a delay in school closure announcements and questions about whether they’re even necessary to begin with, many look to SF Parent Coalition for guidance. But is the organization just another astroturf nonprofit funded by billionaires to ultimately undermine public schools?

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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09 Jul 2024

What Happened (and Didn’t Happen) at the SF Mayoral Debate?

Each mayoral debate on the campaign road to the People’s Palace has been a slow-moving tornado. One was canceled because multiple candidates called foul, one was hella awkward, and the July 8th debate was perhaps the worst of them all. It was petty and confusing, and it made San Francisco

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18 Jun 2024

Didn’t Catch the Hella Awkward Mayoral Debate? Here’s a Recap.

Mayor London Breed doesn’t preen. The current face of San Francisco looks sharp in her red suit, second to the right on an awkwardly lit stage at UC Hastings in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a long-suffering smile fixed on her face as the gentlemen running to unseat her conduct themselves in

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12 Jun 2024

This is How Important Ranked Choice Voting Will be in the SF Mayor’s Race

There’s only one reason anyone runs to be the Mayor of San Francisco, as I explained to my kindergartener the other day. It’s to get on the rooftop of City Hall any time you want, obviously.  In The City, it’s not as simple as winning a popularity contest. Because of

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28 Jun 2023

Wild Parrot Declared San Francisco’s Official Animal

I’m pretty sure the first time I heard about San Francisco’s wild parrots was in the kitchen of 1907 Golden Gate. This must’ve been 2004, and I was asking the illustrious P Segal about quirky things to include in my zine, Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco.

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10 Jun 2021

Supervisor Aaron Peskin Enters Alcohol Treatment Program

In a statement today posted on Aaron Peskin’s social media channels, the Dsictict 3 Supervisor announced that he will “enter into alcohol treatment under the guidance of professionals”, the statement continued to elaborate, “(I) must also take full responsibility for the tenor that I have struck in my public relationships

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18 Nov 2020

Who Becomes Mayor If London Breed Joins The Biden Administration?

Just after Joe Biden was elected president, rumors began swirling that SF mayor London Breed might be offered a position in the Biden administration.  Breed did not rule it out in an interview with KQED, choosing her words very carefully. On top of that, it’s widely reported that Breed is

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