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Nima Momeni ‘stood his ground,’ killed Bob Lee in self-defense, attorneys claim
Defense attorneys for alleged killer Nima Momeni will argue that Cash App founderBob Lee showed a “flash of aggression” on the night Momeni stabbed him in 2023, forcing Momeni to “stand his ground,” according to documents obtained by Mission Local. Momeni “acted in self-defense,” wrote defense...
Follow the money: New S.F. Democratic Party gets tech, landlord cash — Prop. D keeps raking it in
The finance filings in this town are a digital firehose: 20 days ago when Mission Local started noting all the big-money donations leading up to San Francisco’s November election, we were at $22 million total fundraised — a lot of money, certainly the most expensive mayor’s race in city history.
Homeless people often choose the street over a bed. We toured San Francisco’s shelters to find out why.
Starting in August, homeless outreach teams swept through San Francisco, tasked with offering encampment residents bus tickets out of town — or, if they declined, shelter beds. The goal of the city’s “very aggressive” tent clearing, according to Mayor London Breed, was to make street dwellers “so uncomfortable on...
District 5 candidates on how they will speed up housing
Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, in which we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. Four candidates are challenging incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston to represent District 5, which spans from the east end of Golden Gate Park through Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and the Western Addition, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, and most of the Tenderloin.
SFUSD’s delay in announcing school closures is a disgrace
Many years ago, the comedian George Wallace ridiculed the notion of the U.S. military developing a faster bomber. Was this, he asked, a problem? Have the many people the United States has bombed been waiting outside and asking “When’s that bomber going to get here?”. In related news,...
Meet the District 9 candidates: How do you make information available to all languages spoken in D9?
Welcome back to our “Meet the Candidates” series, where we ask the District 9 supervisorial hopefuls in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology and more in 100 words or fewer. Answers are being published individually each week,...
TogetherSF wants to change City Hall. Internal doc shows that’s just the beginning.
Proposition D, experts say, is the most far-reaching proposal to change San Francisco’s government in two decades. The proposition, which is on November’s ballot, would cap the number of San Francisco commissions at 65 while bolstering the power of the mayor and police chief. It would eliminate the bodies responsible for oversight of libraries and public health, for instance, while curtailing the power of the police commission to keep officers in check and prevent abuses.
See how they run: SF Dems accuse Mark Farrell of misusing the party’s endorsement logo
Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Mark Farrell. Read earlier dispatches here. The San Francisco Democratic Party has accused mayoral candidate Mark Farrell of misusing its logo on a Proposition D...
Mayor Breed is deleting texts. Legal experts say that’s a problem.
On June 29, Mayor London Breed texted Carla Short, the director of San Francisco Public Works, asking her to send out a crew to pick up trash in the Tenderloin. “I’m at Azalina’s. Are you around? You should stop by,”. from Breed, sent at 5:54 p.m. while the...
‘Liberal San Francisco’ is deporting accused fentanyl dealers — yes, it’s an election year
God help me, at last week’s presidential debate, Donald Trump sounded like the malevolent version of my Alzheimer’s relatives. It was particularly painful to listen to. Some good may yet come of it. His deranged statements figure to be replayed ad infinitum between now and Election Day in swing states. And some genius figured out that Trump’s interjections about eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets synched up near-perfectly with Vince Guaraldi’s “Linus and Lucy.” That was welcome; we laugh so as not to cry.
Wells Fargo sign in the Mission blows loose, removed by firefighters
The corner of Mission and 22nd has been sealed off and firefighters have ascended a ladder to remove a Wells Fargo sign overlooking the intersection, which came loose during a gusty day. Earlier in the evening, pedestrians were asked to avoid the vicinity in the event the large red-and-yellow bank...
United Dumplings: A Bernal Heights delight
The original United Dumplings has been on Cortland in Bernal since late 2020, but my first time trying their food was just last year at their Oakland location. Women-owned, United Dumplings offers a mix of tradition and innovation, and it all tastes authentically great. I was blown away by the quality of the dumplings and the variety of offerings — of not just dumplings but the myriad noodles, rice, veggie, and tofu options. I was overjoyed to learn (very belatedly) that we had one so close to the Mission. The original is a bit more casual and spare than its East Bay cousin, but the menus seem to be identical. (There’s also another outpost in the Marina.)
Jeweler Peggy Li keeps a low profile. Her creations are now movie stars.
Fortune tellers read palms. Detectives read facial expressions. Peggy Li, a local jeweler, analyzes accessories. As we sat in her studio at 1890 Bryant — a small, spotless room with a skyline view and a bed for her corgi — she appraised my outfit and recommended I wear something like a necklace she’d made with a thick orange carnelian stone dangling from a chain of large gold links.
District 7 candidates weigh in on revitalizing 9th Avenue
Welcome to “Meet the Candidates,” where Mission Local asks supervisor hopefuls questions in the lead-up to the November election. In District 7 — which includes the Inner Sunset, Parkmerced and West Portal — Matt Boschetto and Stephen Martin-Pinto are running against incumbent Myrna Melgar. Ninth Avenue...
District 3 debate filled by conservative voices
Residents who listened to Friday night’s District 3 forum witnessed a supervisor race speeding toward a conservative platform, with five candidates poised to replace Supervisor Aaron Peskin often collectively supporting tough-on-crime measures, police commission reforms and opposing reparations. The sixth candidate, Wendy Ha Chau, didn’t attend the forum.
S.F. controller takes de facto control of scandal-rocked Human Rights Commission
In a Friday afternoon letter to San Francisco officials, city controller Greg Wagner announced his office would essentially assume control of the scandal-plagued Human Rights Commission, with his “accounting staff immediately to oversee accounting operations at HRC, including approvals of payments and other financial transactions.”. The Human Rights Commission’s...
Tenant lawyers demand S.F. cut troubled Potrero Hill management firm
Attorneys for residents who have faced a slew of evictions from the Potrero Hill public housing complex in recent months today called on the San Francisco Housing Authority’s board of commissioners to fire the company that manages the site. The company, Eugene Burger Management, oversees the aging Potrero Terrace-Annex...
Meet the District 1 candidates: Do you support Prop. L?
Welcome back to our weekly “Meet the Candidates” series, in which District 1 supervisorial candidates who have filed to run respond to a question in 100 words or fewer. Answers are published each week, but we are also archiving each answer on this page for District 1, to make it easier for voters to browse.
SFPD officers shoot purportedly armed man at Powell BART station
Three San Francisco police officers shot an allegedly armed person in the Powell BART station, after chasing that person into the station on Friday morning, Mission Local has learned. Tenderloin Station officers responded to reports of a person with a gun. Police set up “containment” units, but the suspect eluded...
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