(L-R) Antonio Lopez and Lisa Gauthier, candidates for the District 4 seat on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in the Nov. 2024 election. Both members of the East Palo Alto City Council, Lopez is the current mayor, while Gauthier has previously...
It would also make it more difficult for the public to put issues on the ballot by changing the required signatures from 5% of the votes cast in the last mayoral election to 2% of registered voters in San Francisco, currently that would require 9,948 signatures rather than the 8,979 as i...
In the 2022 election, San Francisco voters decided to align the mayoral election with presidential elections for a larger voter turnout. Mayor London Breed as a result gets an extra year in office. Breed became the city's first Black woman to become mayor when Mayor Ed Lee suddenly die...
SAN FRANCISCO — As the 2024 election season looms, San Francisco is taking a creative approach to engaging more voters. For the first time, theSF Department of Electionsheld a contest to determine the next "I Voted" sticker design. They've received hundreds of submissions and ...
democratic moderate candidate daniel lurie, a philanthropist and heir to the levi strauss fortune, was elected mayor of san francisco, local media projected on thursday as the incumbent mayor london breed conceded. voters desperate to improve public safety and revive the...
With one week until the election, a years-old video showing Tara Sreekrishnan egging a Cupertino resident’s car has resurfaced, moving some to raise concerns about her run for state Assembly. Sreekrishnan, a candidate for the contentious Assembly District 26 seat, egged the car of a Cupertin...
Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie says he will make streets safer, help small businesses and squash the open-air drug markets that have tarnished San Francisco’s image in recent years.
On this episode of The Podlight, host Nick Preciado digs into the county’s decision to require masks indoors with reporter Lloyd Alaban. Later, reporter Tran Nguyen explains how a San Francisco law firm and a free speech advocacy group are responding to Mayor Sam Liccardo’s attempt to skirt...
Mayor London Breed countered that San Francisco Public Health Department's Overdose Prevention Plan includes expanding access to the continuum of substance use services, doubling the distribution of naloxone in the next three years, increasing social support for people at risk of overdose. ...
Before she became a groundbreaking U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who died Friday at the age of 90, made history as the first woman to become mayor of her hometown of San Francisco.