SF Politics SF Mayor Lurie’s ‘Clean Up City Hall’ Measures Qualify For November Ballot Three Lurie-backed measures headed to the November ballot seek to "streamline" City Hall, including two that would expand the mayor's authority and one that would significantly raise the minimum number of signatures required for petitions.
SF Politics Great Highway Would Need New Traffic Lights If Reopened to Cars, Costing $13.2 Million Before Upper Great Highway closed to vehicles in 2024, the roadway's traffic signals needed to be replaced at a cost now estimated at $13.2 million, compared with the $700,000 the city spent to install Sunset Dunes Park.
SF Politics SF Ballot Measure Could Help Establish the First City-Run Public Bank in the US The SF Board of Supervisors voted to add a measure to the November ballot that would help the city work toward establishing its own public bank, which would fund affordable housing, green energy, and small businesses — the first of its kind in the nation.
SF Politics Latest Measure to Reopen SF’s Great Highway to Cars Will Likely Qualify For November Ballot The great Upper Great Highway debate continues, as a new measure proposing to restore weekday vehicle access to the roadway has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
SF Politics Billionaire Tax Petition Signatures Confirmed, and Coalition Forms to Battle Against the Ballot Measure The billionaire tax, aka the California Billionaire Tax Act, has officially garnered enough signatures to head to the November ballot, and you can rest assured the billionaire class is most unhappy about it — and so is Newsom.
SF News Annual Parcel Tax Measure to Fund Muni Makes It Onto November Ballot San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to approve a new parcel tax on property owners aimed at helping close Muni's budget deficit and avoid service cuts.
SF Politics Lurie, Mahmood Introduce Commercial Foreclosure Tax Following Pause on BUILD Act After putting the larger BUILD Act proposal on hold, which would have cut transfer taxes in half on property sales above $10 million, Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood are pursuing a commercial foreclosure tax that’s initially expected to generate $67 million a year.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote to Cut 43 Inactive Commissions In Effort to Streamline City Hall The Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to streamline City Hall by cutting dozens of the city’s committees while implementing changes to some existing groups. The proposal will appear before voters in November.
SF News Group Filmed Paying $5 Per Signature on Pro-Billionaire Petitions at Sixth and Mission A local content creator filmed a group of signature collectors on SF’s Sixth Street paying dozens of people $5 a pop to sign petitions for three billionaire-backed campaigns under names of voters outside SF, and the campaigns blame an outside firm.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie, Sup. Mandelman Introduce Ballot Measures Aimed at Reforming City Charter San Francisco voters may see three major charter reform measures on the November 2026 ballot — proposals that would reshape how City Hall works while drawing early criticism from labor leaders who say the changes could concentrate power and limit public participation.
Business & Tech East Bay Man Scraps Ballot Measures Due to Pressure from OpenAI, Says He Was ‘Naive’ for Trying An East Bay man says OpenAI pressured him into dropping two AI ballot measures he introduced that would’ve created stricter regulations after it was revealed he’s the stepbrother of a senior Anthropic employee, but he says he wrote the proposals himself — with legal help from chatbots.
SF Politics CA Redistricting Measure on Track to Be One of the Most Expensive Proposition Fights In State History The battle over Gavin Newsom's stick-it-to-Republicans ballot measure, Prop 50, which would temporarily redraw California's congressional district map for the next five years, is heating up in its final month, and it is looking very expensive.
SF Politics Latest Proposed California Ballot Measure Named After Luigi Mangione Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione could be immortalized in California law even if Trump sends him to the electric chair, as a ballot effort is underway to create an insurance measure called the “Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act.”
SF Politics California Voters Say Yes to Tougher Crime Sentences, No to Rent Control Most statewide California ballot measure results still cannot be projected, but the two big ones can, as tougher sentencing for crimes was approved, while an expansion of rent control was rejected.
SF Politics Your California Ballot Cheat Sheet For Tuesday’s Ten Statewide Measures The ten measures on your California ballot have been largely overshadowed by the presidential race and mayoral race (or recall, if you're in Oakland), so here’s a quick preview of the minimum wage, rent control, and crime sentencing proposals the state will vote on tomorrow.
SF News California Supreme Court Blocks Anti-Tax Ballot Measure In Rare Move, Siding With Newsom and Legislature The California Supreme Court has struck down an anti-tax measure that had qualified for the November ballot through a signature drive, saying that it violates state constitutional procedure.
SF Politics A Guide to Your March 5th SF Ballot Measures, Which London Breed’s Fingerprints Are All Over There are seven San Francisco measures on your March 5 primary ballot. But many seem trojan-horse proxy measures to help Mayor London Breed get reelected this November, in a very difficult reelection environment.
SF News Mayor London Breed Hits the Campaign Trail to Tout Three New Ballot Measures London Breed held a rally to support Measures C, E, and F, which are all on the local ballot in March, and aim to deal with the empty downtown, public safety, and drug issues (sometimes controversially).
SF News Oil Companies Pushing State Ballot Measure to Drill Next to Schools, Homes California passed a law prohibiting oil companies from drilling within two-thirds of a mile of schools, homes, and hospitals. Big Oil fought back, and now the issue is heading to your November 2024 ballot.
Business & Tech Men Behind Latest Sports Gambling Ballot Initiative Revealed to Be Crypto Guy, High-Stakes Poker Guy Two dudes who sold an online gaming platform to a Nevada casino giant believe that they have the winning formula for a ballot measure that legalizes sports betting at tribal casinos in California, and they say they're willing the bankroll the whole thing.
SF Politics Once Again We're Voting On a Dialysis-Clinic Prop — Here's the Deal At its heart, this is a unionization fight, but it's one that keeps coming up because there is so much money on the table — and because the arguments are compelling.
SF Politics We’ve Got Polling on State Ballot Props: Both Gambling Measures In the Toilet, Wealth Tax Looks Like a Squeaker A combined $400 million-plus in spending has bought no love for the two competing sports gambling measures on California’s November ballot, whereas a new millionaire’s tax stands just 1% shy of the majority threshold it needs.
SF Politics Dialysis AGAIN? Why There Is Yet Another Dialysis Measure on the California Ballot California's healthcare unions are taking another shot at “Big Dialysis” after a failed 2018 measure, and get ready for TV ads, as the franchise clinics are outspending the unions 16-1.
SF Politics Local Republicans File Ballot Measure To Limit New Navigation Centers A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
SF News Today's The Last Day To Decline SF's Printed, 300-Page Voter Info Pamphlet The alphabet-busting roster of San Francisco ballot propositions voters will decide on November 8 have made for a massive information pamphlet, the booklet every registered voter will receive by mail in advance
