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The pragmatist and the socialist: How Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Mamdani
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How Daniel Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Zohran Mamdani
Two mayors, two speeches, two modes of leadership: Assessing what Daniel Lurie got right — and what topics he avoided — in his big 2026 address.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/01/16/mayor-daniel-lurie-speech-mamdani/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
6 months ago
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Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier
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Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier
Few predicted his popularity or the speed with which he has altered the city’s narrative. But his accomplishments could be fleeting.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/01/05/lurie-survived-thrived-year-1-next-year-could-dicier/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
6 months ago
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Lashinsky: My answers to 11 questions that will define the city in 2026
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Adam Lashinsky’s San Francisco predictions for 2026
Will Daniel Lurie stay popular? Will voters kick out incumbents? Will OpenAI dive bomb? Adam Lashinsky peers into his crystal ball.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/12/30/lashinsky-my-answers-11-questions-will-define-city-2026/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
6 months ago
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Daniel Lurie wants to take a scalpel to SF’s city charter. A hatchet would work better
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Daniel Lurie needs to clean up San Francisco city charter
The sludge-filled city constitution needs a generational cleaning. We’ll see if the mayor’s willing to do the dirty work.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/12/24/daniel-lurie-san-francisco-city-charter/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
7 months ago
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A childish spat is speeding to the ballot, and San Franciscans are caught in the crossfire
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A childish spat is speeding to the ballot, and San Franciscans are caught in the crossfire
After labor unions floated a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations, a business coalition is preparing its own prop. It’s San Francisco in-fighting at its worst.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/12/15/childish-spat-speeding-ballot-san-franciscans-caught-crossfire/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
7 months ago
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Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice
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Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice
In naming Alan Wong, Mayor Lurie passed on making Natalie Gee D4 supervisor, but Sunset voters may not when given the opportunity to vote in June and November. Gee is qualified, but is a pro-labor pro...
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/12/01/natalie-gee-lurie-sunset-supervisor/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
7 months ago
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SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds
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SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds
Thanks to Supervisor Connie Chan and organized labor, the tired political turf wars are revving back up — and grand compromises are being trampled.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/11/24/sf-s-left-wants-raise-taxes-already-agreed-lower-s-as-bad-idea-as-sounds/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
8 months ago
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Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson
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Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson with Beya Alcaraz fiasco
The debacle over the mayor’s Sunset supervisor appointment was a humiliating self-own — one that began months before he ever heard the name Beya Alcaraz.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/11/17/daniel-lurie-beya-alcaraz-sunset-fiasco/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
8 months ago
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Daniel Lurie’s bizarre, cynical pick for Sunset supervisor
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Daniel Lurie’s bizarre, cynical pick for Sunset supervisor
By appointing an unqualified, inexperienced candidate to the Board of Supervisors, the mayor is acting like the president he dare not name. It may come back to haunt him.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/11/11/daniel-lurie-s-bizarre-cynical-pick-sunset-supervisor/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
8 months ago
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Daniel Lurie’s battle against city bureaucrats has only just begun
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Daniel Lurie’s battle against city bureaucrats has only just begun
When the administration steered a contract to a firm with ties to the mayor, it wasn’t playing favorites. It was showing who’s in charge.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/11/04/daniel-lurie-opengov-bureaucrats/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
8 months ago
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Daniel Lurie’s art of the deal
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Daniel Lurie’s art of the deal
By playing to Donald Trump’s vanity while “very nicely” requesting he stay out of town, the mayor fended off a federal invasion.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/10/24/daniel-lurie-s-art-deal/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
9 months ago
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The audacity of Marc Benioff
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The audacity of Marc Benioff
To distract from his National Guard comments, the CEO tried to get San Franciscans to believe Salesforce was growing its local investments. It’s not even close to true.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/10/20/audacity-marc-benioff/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
9 months ago
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The case against Prop 50 — and why I’m voting for it anyway
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The case against Prop 50 — and why I’m voting for it anyway
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering effort is an abomination. But it illustrates just how dire the situation in this country has become.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/10/14/case-prop-50-i-m-voting-anyway/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
9 months ago
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In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts
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In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts
I called the mayor’s upzoning scheme “incremental.” Some readers were having none of it.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/10/07/debate-lurie-s-family-zoning-plan-emotions-still-trumping-facts/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
9 months ago
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Lurie’s rezoning plan is radicalizing foes — even though there’s nothing radical about it
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Lurie’s rezoning plan is radicalizing foes — even though there’s nothing radical about it
The mayor’s “family zoning plan” is raising neighborhood advocates’ ire, despite it being modest, incremental, and necessary.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/22/daniel-lurie-family-zoning-plan/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
10 months ago
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The sad truth of the Engardio recall: Democrats and Lurie hung an ally out to dry
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The sad truth of the Engardio recall: Democrats and Lurie hung an ally out to dry
The moderate group that took over San Francisco’s Democratic Party did some weaselly stuff in an effort to avoid supporting Supervisor Joel Engardio.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/17/ran-slogan-dems-change-sacrificed-ally/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
10 months ago
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Aaron Peskin’s successor wants to undo his legacy. At least one local merchant can’t wait
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Aaron Peskin’s successor wants to undo his legacy. At least one local merchant can’t wait
With one fell swoop, District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to clean out some of the legislative sludge his predecessor left behind.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/15/aaron-peskin-danny-sauter-north-beach/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
10 months ago
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An SF committee chair wants to kill off her own commission. It’s a great start.
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Prop E task force makes progress in cleaning up San Francisco's commission problem
San Francisco’s 130 advisory bodies and committees collectively cost $34 million to operate, an investment that’s getting harder and harder for City Hall to countenance.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/08/prop-e-commission-task-force-lauren-post/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
10 months ago
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A politician wants to make it even harder to open a business. An ally made her think twice
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A politician wants to make it even harder to open a business. An ally made her think twice
The scene that unfolded at a recent commission meeting gave me hope that sanity is beginning to prevail in San Francisco.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/02/san-francisco-connie-chan-conditional-use-permit/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
10 months ago
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SF schools chief wants focus on kids, not culture wars. If only it were so easy
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SFUSD superintendent Maria Su faces a year of challenges
Maria Su is amiable, politically astute, and always on message. But will that be enough to save a school district on fire?
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/08/18/sfusd-superintendent-maria-su/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
11 months ago
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Opinion: Why do SF supervisors ‘suck at governing’? Here’s a prime example
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Opinion | Why do SF supervisors ‘suck at governing’? Here’s a prime example
A board fight over outmoded contracting rules and a powerless citizen’s panel shows the city can’t break its old, bad habits.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/24/why-do-sf-supervisors-suck-at-governing-heres-a-prime-example/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
12 months ago
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Opinion: The missing details of Daniel Lurie’s homelessness pivot
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Opinion | The missing details of Daniel Lurie's homelessness pivot
I asked the mayor's homeless czar to explain what success for their new plan looks like. His answer: We’ll know it when we see it.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/14/the-questions-daniel-lurie-still-hasnt-answered-about-his-failed-homeless-plan/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
12 months ago
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Opinion: Daniel Lurie is taking exactly the right approach to Trump
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Opinion | Lurie mum on Trump. Good!
It’d be more fun if Lurie teed off on Trump. But not better for San Francisco.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/06/17/lurie-trump-newsom-silence/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: Can tax-code tweaks keep businesses from fleeing SF?
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Opinion | Solid approach to business taxes in SF
Think business taxes are boring? You’re not wrong. But they’re important.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/06/16/san-francisco-business-tax-prop-m-cisneros-labor/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: By caving to labor, Daniel Lurie fails his first big test as mayor
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Opinion | By caving to labor, Daniel Lurie fails his first big test as mayor
He avoided angering the city's powerful unions by blunting the budget axe. But he may have missed a golden political opportunity.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/06/03/by-caving-to-labor-daniel-lurie-fails-his-first-big-test-as-mayor/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: Daniel Lurie’s budget-by-fire
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Opinion | Daniel Lurie’s bad-answers-only budget - The San Francisco Standard
Does he squander goodwill with necessary cuts? Or kick the can down the road with accounting trickery? Either way, budget season may end in tears.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/05/29/daniel-luries-sophies-choice-budget/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: These supervisors have a good idea to fight homelessness. The mayor should reject it anyway
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Opinion | These supervisors have a good idea to fight homelessness. The mayor should reject it anyway
A bill by Bilal Mahmood and Shamann Walton seeks to spread the pain all over the city. Daniel Lurie wants to gut it — for good reason.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/05/28/daniel-lurie-reject-new-homeless-bill/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: The Nordstrom follies: How bad laws and whiny neighbors are slowing SF’s comeback
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Opinion | The Nordstrom follies: How bad laws and whiny neighbors are slowing SF's comeback
Opposition might keep a prime retail space from being filled. It's another example of the city's out-of-control kvetchocracy.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/05/19/the-nordstrom-follies/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: Are school closings back on the table? Maria Su is ready for the conversation
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Opinion | Are school closings back on the table? Maria Su is ready for the conversation
A sit-down with the SFUSD superintendent as she passes the six-month mark of her nearly-impossible job.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/05/12/are-school-closings-back-on-the-table-maria-su-is-ready-for-the-conversation/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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I don't think anyone would disagree that getting the biggest employers in SF to return to the office more days a week is necessary for downtown revitalization.
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Opinion | Daniel Lurie's corporate 'partners' need to get serious, put butts in seats
The mayor is cajoling reluctant city workers back to their municipal cubicles. Now he needs to push his friends in the corporate world to do the same.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/05/05/luries-corporate-partners-remote-work-policies/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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My latest column in The San Francisco Standard If Steve Hilton wants to be California governor, he should ditch the MAGA baggage
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Opinion | If Steve Hilton wants to be California governor, he should ditch the MAGA baggage - The San Francisco Standard
The Fox News host will need to appeal to a much wider base if he wants to pull a Schwarzenegger. So far, he's doing the opposite.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/04/28/if-steve-hilton-wants-to-be-california-governor-he-should-ditch-the-maga-baggage/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: 100 days in, Daniel Lurie is still enjoying his honeymoon. Can he keep it going?
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Opinion | 100 days in, Daniel Lurie is still enjoying his honeymoon. Can he keep it going?
An early-term assessment of the political neophyte who's shown an uncanny instinct for being a politician.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/04/14/daniel-lurie-100-day-assessment/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
about 1 year ago
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Opinion: ‘Truly disgusted’: SF legal legend on Trump — and the law firms caving to him
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Opinion | SF lawyer John Keker fights back against MAGA intimidation
He loves literature and Napoleon. President Trump? Not so much. A litigator makes his case for why lawyers must stand up for each other.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/03/31/john-keker-trump-san-francisco-law-firm/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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My latest column. Opinion: Exclusive: Inside Lurie’s $100M plan to get private donors to pay for homeless beds
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Opinion | Exclusive: Inside Lurie’s $100M plan to get private donors to pay for homeless beds - The San Francisco Standard
The mayor is rolling out another plan that asks San Francisco's rich to pony up for its poor.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/03/28/exclusive-inside-luries-100m-plan-to-get-private-donors-to-pay-for-homeless-beds/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Opinion: Can a shiny squad of CEOs really help SF get its groove back?
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Opinion | Can a shiny squad of CEOs really help SF get its groove back?
Mayor Daniel Lurie has shown he can convene the city's richest and most powerful. Now what will they do with that access?
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/03/25/can-a-shiny-squad-of-ceos-really-help-sf-get-its-groove-back/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Opinion: Daniel Lurie is getting budget-rolled by his own bureaucrats
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Opinion | Daniel Lurie is getting budget-rolled by his own bureaucrats
How can so many departments reject the mayor's demand for budget cuts? It's all part of the typical City Family playbook.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/03/10/daniel-lurie-is-getting-budget-rolled-by-his-own-bureaucrats/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Opinion: Damn, Daniel: Lurie is getting the hang of being mayor, one sly move at a time
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Opinion | Damn, Daniel: Lurie is getting the hang of being mayor, one sly move at a time
For an inexperienced politician, the mayor has shown a surprising skill for consolidating power and winning over adversaries.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/02/21/daniel-lurie-sly-mayor-moves/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Outstanding reporting
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Why do so few SFPD recruits become cops?
An awful attrition rate in the latest academy has some asking if changes are needed to fill the ranks.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/31/inside-sfpds-broken-dysfunctional-cop-making-machine/
over 1 year ago
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The secret to Lurie’s fentanyl legislation success? Talking
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The secret to Lurie’s fentanyl legislation success? Talking
The negotiation with the Board of Supervisors was an early test of the mayor's leadership.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/29/daniell-lurie-fentanyl-emergency-board-of-supervisors/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Opinion: Daniel Lurie’s ‘plan’ to fix downtown is off to a vague start
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Opinion | Daniel Lurie's 'plan' to fix downtown is off to a vague start
The mayor ran for office on a theme of governmental accountability and was quick to point the finger at City Hall whenever bad news broke. Guess who's accountable now?
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/01/29/daniel-luries-plan-to-fix-downtown-is-off-to-a-vague-start/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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100 arrests, no progress: How Sixth Street is bedeviling Lurie
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100 arrests, no progress: How Sixth Street is bedeviling Lurie
Police have made more drug arrests on this three-block stretch than anywhere else in the city but conditions remain dire.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/27/private-meeting-new-drug-zone/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?
An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/11/chatham-house-rule-burnout/
over 1 year ago
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Chaos skyrockets at homeless shelters as Lurie plans expansion
over 1 year ago
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Pharmageddon: Walgreens to shutter 12 San Francisco stores
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Pharmageddon: Walgreens to shutter 12 San Francisco stores
Among the stores closing in late February are known theft hotspots and the store where Banko Brown was fatally shot in 2023.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/08/walgreens-to-shutter-12-san-francisco-stores/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Woman struck by firecracker bleeds profusely outside Lurie’s inauguration banquet
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Woman struck by firecracker bleeds outside Lurie's inauguration banquet
A woman was injured by a firecracker Wednesday outside Daniel Lurie’s inauguration banquet in Chinatown.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/woman-struck-by-firecracker-bleeds-profusely-outside-luries-inauguration-banquet/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Opinion: Daniel Lurie speaks softly, but carries a big political mandate
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Opinion | Daniel Lurie speaks softly but carries a big political mandate - The San Francisco Standard
In his inaugural address, San Francisco's new mayor showed his oratorical weakness. But he still brought some heat.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/01/09/daniel-lurie-speaks-softly-but-carries-a-big-political-mandate/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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Can Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s New Major, Make the City Shine Again?
Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, will soon take the helm of the liberal mecca. “Resistance” to Donald Trump isn’t on his agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/us/daniel-lurie-san-francisco-mayor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
over 1 year ago
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reposted by
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over 1 year ago
New from
@adamlashinsky.bsky.social
: For his top 4 deputies, Lurie has chosen 1 ex-McKinsey consultant, 1 ex-Goldman Sachs banker, and 1 ex-bigtime nonprofit CEO. Starting to feel very, very Bloomberg-y at SF City Hall!
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Opinion | The fresh faces in Lurie's cabinet will have vast power — but will they know how to wield it?
A foursome of policy chiefs will attempt what a legion of veteran bureaucrats have been unable to accomplish: Make SF run efficiently.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/01/07/the-fresh-faces-in-luries-cabinet-will-have-vast-power-but-will-they-know-how-to-wield-it/
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Opinion: Lurie’s four bullpen czars will have vast power — but will they know how to wield it?
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Opinion | Lurie's four bullpen czars will have vast power — but will they know how to wield it?
A foursome of policy chiefs will attempt what a legion of veteran bureaucrats have been unable to accomplish: Make SF run efficiently.
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/01/07/the-fresh-faces-in-luries-cabinet-will-have-vast-power-but-will-they-know-how-to-wield-it/?utm_source=bluesky_sitebutton
over 1 year ago
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SF crime czar was mysteriously reassigned after 2016 crash
Daniel Lurie’s new public safety chief was sued after a 2016 car collision. A plaintiff in the case, which was settled in 2020, claims he was driving under the influence at the time of the incident.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/06/san-francisco-paul-yep-daniel-lurie-public-safety-sfpd/
over 1 year ago
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