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SF route to Alcatraz to get a major upgrade
SF route to Alcatraz to get a major upgrade
After nearly a decade of hashing out the details, a massive project to revamp the ferry terminal to Alcatraz Island could begin by the end of the year.
First inmate released under new California resentencing law
The first inmate has been released from a California prison under a new law that allows prosecutors to review sentences they consider unjustly harsh.
Fact-checking the Democratic debate attacks against Kamala Harris
After being the star of the first presidential debates, Kamala Harris was attacked during second round of debates — with much of the attacks focusing on her time as San Francisco’s district attorney ...
Money flows into SF’s District Five supervisor, district attorney and mayor races
The latest campaign finance disclosures for the November election show that Mayor London Breed has raised a lot of money despite having no real opposition.
Eric Swalwell dodges fight for his East Bay congressional seat
The Hayward City Council will be home for now for Aisha Wahab, who has suspended her campaign for Dublin Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat after he dropped out of the presidential race and fired up ...
Sean Hannity endorses in a California swing district
Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity is taking sides in a California congressional race, giving his support to Republican Robert “Buzz” Patterson, a retired Air Force officer challenging Democratic ...
Five takeaways from the Democrats’ policy brawls
Progressives and moderates will brawl until the convention over the best way to deliver health care. Former Vice President is going to have to defend decisions made over five decades in politics — ...
It was Biden vs. the rest of the Democrats in second primary debate
Former Vice President Joe Biden was the only real topic in Wednesday’s Democratic presidential primary debate as the current front-runner fought off attacks from the other candidates on a wide range of ...
Huge SF housing project adds senior housing to win over Laurel Heights
After years of wrangling over details with the neighborhood, developers have agreed to add senior affordable housing to a massive project in Laurel Heights.
Gavin Newsom says he talked with Trump the day he signed tax-returns bill
President Trump has yet to weigh in on a new California law targeting the release of his tax returns — and if Gov. Gavin Newsom knows how the president really feels, he’s not sharing.
Kamala Harris sports Dodgers cap in debate walk-through
The Oakland native and former San Francisco district attorney wore a khaki-colored Dodgers cap in her debate walk-through on Tuesday. A campaign spokesman noted that she represents all of California.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren battle moderates in Democratic debate
The Democratic Party’s growing rift between progressives and pragmatists was on full display in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, with 10 hopefuls united in their need to defeat President Trump but ...
California to Trump: Release your taxes or you’re barred from the primary ballot
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday requiring presidential and gubernatorial candidates to share their last five years of income tax returns to be eligible for primary elections in California. It’s ...
Look for aggressive Democratic debates. It’s some candidates’ last chance
The first 10 candidates tangle Tuesday, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the headliners competing to be the leading voice for progressive positions. Wednesday’s lineup features ...
Kamala Harris has narrow lead in new California poll
As 20 Democratic presidential candidates prepare to debate this week in Detroit, Sen. Kamala Harris has a narrow lead in a California survey that finds dramatic differences in the preferences of younger ...
Gilroy shooting shows how California’s gun laws are undermined by its neighbors
California has the toughest gun control laws in the country and only continues to tighten them. But its efforts are undermined by a more permissive approach in other states, including the three that border ...
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Spotlight on congressional inaction on guns
The mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival put a fresh spotlight on the inability of Congress to pass gun violence prevention legislation, as Democrats urged the Republican-controlled Senate to take ...
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Trump calls killer ‘wicked,’ Dems urge more gun control
The Gilroy Garlic Festival shootings that killed three people and wounded 12 others brought reactions from officials across the political spectrum including President Trump, who called the attacker a ...
Kamala Harris unveils Medicare for All plan ahead of Democratic debate
Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled her version of a Medicare for All health care plan Monday, seeking to gain high ground going into the next presidential debate on an issue that has at times tripped up her ...
California reaches fuel-efficiency deal with four automakers, bypassing Trump
The deal revealed Thursday sets a goal of improving fuel efficiency for cars and light-duty trucks to more than 50 miles per gallon by model year 2026, one year later than the target the Obama ...
Ninth Circuit ruling could wipe out hundreds of family-separations convictions
A ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could bolster critics’ argument that the Trump administration is misusing the law to criminalize well-intentioned asylum seekers. It also adds further ...
Women, nonwhites wanted: California redistricting panel struggles for diversity
A lack of diversity in a group designed to represent all of California is a growing concern as the Aug. 9 deadline for applications nears for the panel that will draw new boundaries for congressional and ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs $1 billion clean-water package for poor areas
California will dedicate more than a billion dollars over the next decade to help the estimated 1 million residents who do not have reliable access to clean drinking water.
Mueller testimony brings ‘new phase’ but no smoking gun for Democrats
House Democrats, including Bay Area lawmakers who had a front row seat, said former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday didn’t immediately push them closer to impeachment proceedings, ...
Presidential hopeful Jay Inslee tells Walnut Creek crowd why climate change is his top priority
Washington governor visits the Bay Area to talk about environmental concerns and his campaign for president.
SF supes reject plan to add Homelessness Department oversight to November ballot
Mayor London Breed lobbied supervisors to either kill the proposal or postpone it, arguing that more bureaucracy could hobble her hard-charging push to increase homeless services in the city.
Politics is ‘hot this year,’ and so is Mission District hangout Manny’s
Manny’s, a coffee house in the Mission, has become San Francisco’s go-to place for political talk and social justice concerns. It will be packed for the viewing of Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday.
Will Robert Mueller offer fireworks? Bay Area lawmakers will play a key role in the questioning.
Democrats hope that when he testifies Wednesday, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will offer politically valuable on-camera recitations of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russians in 2016 and ...
Tech dinosaur California DMV gets dose of Silicon Valley in hopes of fixing it
Gov. Gavin Newsom has plucked a new Department of Motor Vehicles director from Silicon Valley. Technology consultant Steve Gordon will be charged with cutting down wait times and fixing other issues that ...
ICE arrests of immigrant families lagged behind hype
For the first week of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s arrest surge targeting recently arrived migrant families, 35 people were picked up, ICE said . Of those, 18 w ere people arrested as part of ...
California GOP’s ‘cult of Trump’ keeps quiet about his attacks
California Republicans haven’t pushed back on President Trump’s racist tweets. One longtime GOP consultant says that’s going to hurt a party that is already shunned by most people of color.
SF Mayor Breed has one word to describe her management style...
“I harass the department heads and staff constantly. I harass daily, even hourly sometimes,” says the mayor, who is up for re-election in November with no significant opposition.
Need an escape in San Francisco? A refuge beckons where you...
You need to escape, even if only for an afternoon. That isn’t so easy, especially in a city as densely packed as San Francisco. But the city also has quiet places scattered around, like islands of ...
View from outside California’s blue bubble: Trump could win...
President Trump remains popular with working-class voters in the industrial heartland, even if wage growth hasn’t kept up with the rise in the economy. One organization trying to connect with ...
Let’s be blunt: Cannabis consumers need protection
AB1417 seeks to restrict advertising and marketing by unlicensed cannabis retailers. And it would establish civil penalties for entities that violate the law. It addresses a critical need in the legalized ...
California’s big housing bill is dead for the year. Here’s...
With SB50 shelved for the year, advocates of ramping up housing production in California have lost their primary legislative vehicle this session.
How Southern California Rep. Ted Lieu became Trump’s top...
Southern California Rep. Ted Lieu didn’t come to Congress intending to be a social media star or go viral for his questioning of witnesses in congressional hearings. Then the 2016 election happened.
Former Oakland Councilwoman Brooks says city’s ‘failed’...
Former Oakland City Councilwoman Desley Brooks is seeking monetary damages against the city and city attorney’s office, claiming that their defense of her legal battle against an ex-Black Panther leader ...
White House considers diverting San Francisco Bay money to pay...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering diverting millions of dollars from San Francisco Bay shoreline restoration and flood control to help build the president’s wall on the southern ...
First inmate released under new California resentencing law
The first inmate has been released from a California prison under a new law that allows prosecutors to review sentences they consider unjustly harsh.
Fact-checking the Democratic debate attacks against Kamala Harris
After being the star of the first presidential debates, Kamala Harris was attacked during second round of debates — with much of the attacks focusing on her time as San Francisco’s district attorney ...
Money flows into SF’s District Five supervisor, district attorney and mayor races
The latest campaign finance disclosures for the November election show that Mayor London Breed has raised a lot of money despite having no real opposition.
Eric Swalwell dodges fight for his East Bay congressional seat
The Hayward City Council will be home for now for Aisha Wahab, who has suspended her campaign for Dublin Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat after he dropped out of the presidential race and fired up ...
Sean Hannity endorses in a California swing district
Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity is taking sides in a California congressional race, giving his support to Republican Robert “Buzz” Patterson, a retired Air Force officer challenging Democratic ...
Five takeaways from the Democrats’ policy brawls
Progressives and moderates will brawl until the convention over the best way to deliver health care. Former Vice President is going to have to defend decisions made over five decades in politics — ...
It was Biden vs. the rest of the Democrats in second primary debate
Former Vice President Joe Biden was the only real topic in Wednesday’s Democratic presidential primary debate as the current front-runner fought off attacks from the other candidates on a wide range of ...
Huge SF housing project adds senior housing to win over Laurel Heights
After years of wrangling over details with the neighborhood, developers have agreed to add senior affordable housing to a massive project in Laurel Heights.
Gavin Newsom says he talked with Trump the day he signed tax-returns bill
President Trump has yet to weigh in on a new California law targeting the release of his tax returns — and if Gov. Gavin Newsom knows how the president really feels, he’s not sharing.
Kamala Harris sports Dodgers cap in debate walk-through
The Oakland native and former San Francisco district attorney wore a khaki-colored Dodgers cap in her debate walk-through on Tuesday. A campaign spokesman noted that she represents all of California.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren battle moderates in Democratic debate
The Democratic Party’s growing rift between progressives and pragmatists was on full display in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, with 10 hopefuls united in their need to defeat President Trump but ...
California to Trump: Release your taxes or you’re barred from the primary ballot
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday requiring presidential and gubernatorial candidates to share their last five years of income tax returns to be eligible for primary elections in California. It’s ...
Look for aggressive Democratic debates. It’s some candidates’ last chance
The first 10 candidates tangle Tuesday, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the headliners competing to be the leading voice for progressive positions. Wednesday’s lineup features ...
Kamala Harris has narrow lead in new California poll
As 20 Democratic presidential candidates prepare to debate this week in Detroit, Sen. Kamala Harris has a narrow lead in a California survey that finds dramatic differences in the preferences of younger ...
Gilroy shooting shows how California’s gun laws are undermined by its neighbors
California has the toughest gun control laws in the country and only continues to tighten them. But its efforts are undermined by a more permissive approach in other states, including the three that border ...
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Spotlight on congressional inaction on guns
The mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival put a fresh spotlight on the inability of Congress to pass gun violence prevention legislation, as Democrats urged the Republican-controlled Senate to take ...
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Trump calls killer ‘wicked,’ Dems urge more gun control
The Gilroy Garlic Festival shootings that killed three people and wounded 12 others brought reactions from officials across the political spectrum including President Trump, who called the attacker a ...
Kamala Harris unveils Medicare for All plan ahead of Democratic debate
Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled her version of a Medicare for All health care plan Monday, seeking to gain high ground going into the next presidential debate on an issue that has at times tripped up her ...
California reaches fuel-efficiency deal with four automakers, bypassing Trump
The deal revealed Thursday sets a goal of improving fuel efficiency for cars and light-duty trucks to more than 50 miles per gallon by model year 2026, one year later than the target the Obama ...
Ninth Circuit ruling could wipe out hundreds of family-separations convictions
A ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could bolster critics’ argument that the Trump administration is misusing the law to criminalize well-intentioned asylum seekers. It also adds further ...
Women, nonwhites wanted: California redistricting panel struggles for diversity
A lack of diversity in a group designed to represent all of California is a growing concern as the Aug. 9 deadline for applications nears for the panel that will draw new boundaries for congressional and ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs $1 billion clean-water package for poor areas
California will dedicate more than a billion dollars over the next decade to help the estimated 1 million residents who do not have reliable access to clean drinking water.
Mueller testimony brings ‘new phase’ but no smoking gun for Democrats
House Democrats, including Bay Area lawmakers who had a front row seat, said former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday didn’t immediately push them closer to impeachment proceedings, ...
Presidential hopeful Jay Inslee tells Walnut Creek crowd why climate change is his top priority
Washington governor visits the Bay Area to talk about environmental concerns and his campaign for president.
SF supes reject plan to add Homelessness Department oversight to November ballot
Mayor London Breed lobbied supervisors to either kill the proposal or postpone it, arguing that more bureaucracy could hobble her hard-charging push to increase homeless services in the city.
Politics is ‘hot this year,’ and so is Mission District hangout Manny’s
Manny’s, a coffee house in the Mission, has become San Francisco’s go-to place for political talk and social justice concerns. It will be packed for the viewing of Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday.
Will Robert Mueller offer fireworks? Bay Area lawmakers will play a key role in the questioning.
Democrats hope that when he testifies Wednesday, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will offer politically valuable on-camera recitations of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russians in 2016 and ...
Tech dinosaur California DMV gets dose of Silicon Valley in hopes of fixing it
Gov. Gavin Newsom has plucked a new Department of Motor Vehicles director from Silicon Valley. Technology consultant Steve Gordon will be charged with cutting down wait times and fixing other issues that ...
ICE arrests of immigrant families lagged behind hype
For the first week of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s arrest surge targeting recently arrived migrant families, 35 people were picked up, ICE said . Of those, 18 w ere people arrested as part of ...
California GOP’s ‘cult of Trump’ keeps quiet about his attacks
California Republicans haven’t pushed back on President Trump’s racist tweets. One longtime GOP consultant says that’s going to hurt a party that is already shunned by most people of color.
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Democratic debates weren’t television — or politics — at...
After sitting through both Democratic presidential debates, I have come to two conclusions: one is that the candidates are still not talking to the average voter, and two, I need my head examined for having watched it all. It was the worst five hours of TV that I have seen in some time. Too ...
City of Oakland says not so fast to sale of half the Coliseum...
The Oakland City Council has told the city attorney to draft a letter to Alameda County opposing the county’s sale of it’s half of the Coliseum site to the Oakland A’s.
Fact-checking the Democratic debate attacks against Kamala Harris
After being the star of the first presidential debates, Kamala Harris was attacked during second round of debates — with much of the attacks focusing on her time as San Francisco’s district attorney and California attorney general
Why doesn’t SF treat homelessness like the crisis it is?
What if we treated the homeless crisis like any other major emergency? One of San Francisco’s most admired homeless providers returns to the city and offers a grand vision for a 24/7 crisis center.
Judge sentences man who sent pipe bombs to Dems to 20 years
NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida amateur body builder who admitted sending inoperative pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday by a judge who said he concluded that ...
