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TONIGHT
Our own Joe Eskenazi, Joe Fitz from the Standard, & Ben Trefny from KALW on a panel analyzing the results of the recent San Francisco election.
What did it all mean? Find out tonight, 6PM, at 220 Montgomery St.
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Coming soon to a home near you: a restaurant!
San Francisco today legalized selling home-cooked meals from your residence, a cart or a stall.
The law is a win for city street vendors who rely on their small, start-up food businesses to make ends meet.
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PSA: BART will be shutting down train service between 24th St. and Daly City stations this weekend as the agency conducts trackway maintenance and upgrades.
A bus bridge will connect the two stops all day Saturday and Sunday, with regular service resuming Monday.
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JUST IN: Bob Lee's killer, Nima Momeni, was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison today.
Momeni was convicted in 2024 of stabbing the Cash App creator on a San Francisco street.
“I vividly remember the day my father was killed," said Lee's 18 y/o daughter today.
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SFUSD's Junipero Serra Annex in Bernal Heights will close at the end of the school year in what the district is calling a "transition" due to high repair costs at the site. Parents, who were only notified of the closure in September, are frustrated with a lack of transparency.
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Mayor Daniel Lurie and City Administrator Carmen Chu were given new powers by voters in last week's election.
Today they announced their first use of those powers: creating citywide rules for signing contracts.
via @io_y_g
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TOMORROW: What did the Bay Area elections mean?
Come out to KALW at 220 Montgomery St. to hear from our very own Joe Eskenazi in conversation with Joe Fitz from the San Francisco Standard & Ben Trefny from KALW.
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San Francisco's "social housing" measure, Prop. I, has lost 52-48.
The measure, championed by the Democratic Socialists of America, would have dedicated an existing tax, worth ~$100M/yr or more, to subsidized housing.
It faced heavy real-estate opposition.
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Tenderloin's Arabic speakers face city forms, Muni signs and housing flyers that aren't in their language. Arabic falls short of SF's threshold for mandated translation. And advocates say the count of only 1,000 monolingual speakers across the city is an undercount.
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Scott Wiener won his congressional seat using his cred as an AI regulator — and with the help of AI money.
Can the freshman find his voice on Capitol Hill?
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Mourners gathered at a candle-lit vigil Monday night to remember the 17-year-old Rolando Jose Dusuau, or 'RJ,' nearly a month after he was fatally shot in Potrero Hill.
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San Francisco voters have approved the city’s first-ever public bank measure, Proposition B, with 52.3% of the vote as of 4 p.m. on Sunday.
With only 6,200 votes in total left to be counted, the campaign for the measure declared victory Monday morning.
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San Francisco's Westside voters, who strongly opposed transforming the Great Highway into a park in 2024, have come around.
Most voters in the Richmond and the Sunset are against Prop. G, which would’ve turned Sunset Dunes back to a road on weekdays.
by @junyao98 @kellywaldro
The Bayview businesses locals vouch for outside of Third Street:
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Jane Kim, who is pulling away in her race to be California insurance commissioner, did better in Fresno and Stockton than she did in her hometown of San Francisco.
It all makes perfect sense.
From @EskSF
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Coming up in the next week the museums have loads of events - the first holiday market of the season at the Asian Art Museum. A cooking class at SFMOMA and and a lamp sale at 500 Capp Street. missionlocal.org/2026/11/wha…
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Mayor Daniel Lurie has convinced voters to give him more power.
In doing so, he's lost any future excuses:
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JUST IN: Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he'd appointed Nathan "Nate" Ballard to California’s state historical resources commission.
Ballard was in 2020 accused of drunkenly smashing his then-wife’s head into a glass door & sitting atop his 4-year-old daughter w/a pillow.
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NEW: San Francisco has ‘sole discretion’ to terminate contract that facilitates ICE use of city-owned garage
City asked feds to ‘’immediately remove’ ICE vehicles from city-owned garage, but has yet to terminate a contract that gives spaces to immigration agency
By @clarasophiadaly and Nicholas David
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Another vote drop. The Dept of Elections has counted 51,535 more votes, some updates:
—Scott Wiener's lead over Connie Chan has shrunk slightly to 54-46
—Public-bank measure, Prop B, is now winning 52-48 & will likely pass
There are ~38K votes outstanding
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