Incumbents Win Big; Philhour Takes Late Lead in D1 San Francisco stayed the course on Nov. 3, as mayor and supervisor-backed ballot measures all won and incumbent supervisors Dean Preston and Ahsha Safai won easily. But there may be one
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Our Picks for D1, D5, D7, D11 and State Senate San Francisco Board of Supervisors San Francisco has five Board races. Hillary Ronen is unopposed in D9.  And while Danny Sauter has run a spirited campaign against Aaron Peskin in
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The City’s Core Strengths Remain Many seem convinced: San Francisco faces a troubling future. The evidence? We are told: *people are relocating from cities to suburbs; *tech workers, free to work at home, prefer living outside San Francisco; *the city’s
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Prop B Brings Essential Public Input for Cleaner Streets San Francisco’s Prop B creates a new Department of Sanitation and Streets overseen by a commission. It is not without opposition. For example,  SPUR argues that “past experience in San Francisco
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SF Supervisor Races Will Decide Presidency In the months leading up to the January 2019 vote for Board President D9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen openly campaigned for the position. Her supporters spoke on her behalf for nearly two hours before the
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The Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which I head and publishes Beyond Chron, opened its doors on February 1, 1980. This is our 40th anniversary and my 38th as THC’s first fulltime employee. I wrote three stories in February about our history:
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New Facts Have Emerged When San Francisco banned non-essential SRO hotel visitors last April, it made perfect sense. Congregate living spaces were seen as prime venues for spreading COVID. Protecting tenants demanded that those from outside the building not roam
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Philhour and Chan Divided Over Housing San Francisco’s D1 voters have elected the “progressive” supervisor candidate in every election since district elections resumed in 2000. Will 2020 be different? Marjan Philhour, who lost a close race to Sandy Lee Fewer
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