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SF politics
fromMission Local
1 week ago

S.F. supervisor to 'explore' ballot measure to speed up housing

San Francisco takes 280 days to approve housing permits, one of the longest waits in the country, prompting officials to pursue a ballot measure to streamline the five-department approval process.
SF politics
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 week ago

SF Mayor Lurie reportedly orders 500 city job cuts amid budget crisis

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie orders city departments to eliminate approximately 500 jobs to address an $877 million budget deficit, with $100 million in personnel spending cuts required.
SF politics
from48 hills
2 weeks ago

Lurie plan would nearly eliminate the Department of the Environment - 48 hills

Mayor Lurie's proposed 80% budget cut to the Department of the Environment contradicts campaign climate pledges and threatens San Francisco's net-zero 2040 emissions goal.
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago

Curiously, SF Supervisors Declare This Friday Pokemon Day' in San Francisco

Pokemon was created by Satoshi Tajiri and originated as an electronic games series from Nintendo that debuted in Japan on February 27, 1996, and that 2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of Pokemon, celebrating three decades of creativity, innovation, storytelling, and community building that continues to inspire generations of fans to explore, learn, and connect.
San Francisco
from48 hills
1 month ago

Supes move forward a term-limits bill that's a 'solution in search of a problem' - 48 hills

"This," Supervisor Shamann Walton noted, "is a solution in search of a problem."
SF politics
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Mayor Daniel Lurie Seeks New State Legislation for Court-Ordered Mental Health Medication

Too many people in San Francisco are falling into crisis when intervention could and should come sooner. At the center of this effort is a simple reality: Stability is the gateway to recovery. For many people with severe mental illness, medication is what allows treatment to work at all. Without it, housing placements fail, care plans break down, and crises repeat themselvesoften with greater harm each time.
SF politics
from48 hills
3 months ago

SF fires immigrant advocate-and activists are confused and angry - 48 hills

San Francisco has more than 34,000 employees, and sometimes some of them get fired. In most cases, the workers are under union contracts, and termination requires some sort of cause, some sort of a warning system, and some sort of due process: Your boss can't just call you into their office one day and say you're no longer needed. But a small percentage or those workers are called "exempt," which means they can be fired at will.
San Francisco
US politics
fromMission Local
4 months ago

Should S.F. supervisors be allowed to solicit more funds, as a treat?

San Francisco supervisors may regain permission to solicit behested payments from city contractors if new legislation allowing such requests passes.
US politics
fromMission Local
5 months ago

Supervisor Dorsey is 2nd S.F. official to visit city's ICE facility, pledging legal aid

San Francisco supervisors visited the immigration court and pledged to fund pro-bono legal aid, highlighting critical nonprofit attorney programs and concerns about ICE conditions.
US politics
fromMission Local
5 months ago

Mayor Lurie ends 20-year 'heritage night' partnership with indigenous group

Mayor's office removed the American Indian Cultural Center as lead of Native American Heritage Night, prompting claims that the city is erasing Indigenous leadership.
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