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New from me, featuring some sleuthing on a secret meeting at USF in which the city's prevailing religious leaders discussed AI behind closed doors:
A stream of clergy entered University of San Francisco’s campus, walked into a carpeted reception room, and talked about AI. No media were allowed.
Reporter @brandonphooo takes you through SF religions' reckoning with the disruptive technology:
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I've been following San Francisco's school board race for @MLNow...
For 13 weeks, I've asked the eight candidates on the ballot various questions to help candidates see where they land.
View the entire archive at the link below and vote by Nov. 3.
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In a flash of irony and just days before polls close on the California billionaire tax:
Two hundred and thirty staff members who are doing organizing and political work for SEIU-UHW — the major California union that got the measure on the ballot — have gone on strike against their own union and stopped all Prop. 40 campaign work.
From @brandonphooo :
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SCOOP: The union that led the push to get California's billionaire tax on the ballot now faces a strike from its own political organizers.
Just days before polls close on Prop. 40, those workers' campaigning for the measure has ground to a halt.
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San Francisco's and Oakland's mayors both want more power this year.
They took opposite roads to get there:
While Daniel Lurie's campaign paid for canvassers, Barbara Lee put herself in the hot seat for tough questions — and public debate.
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Mission Local retweeted
New from me!
San Francisco's and Oakland's mayors both want more power this year.
They took opposite roads to get there:
While Daniel Lurie's campaign paid for canvassers, Barbara Lee put herself in the hot seat for tough questions — and public debate.
missionlocal.org/2026/10/dan…
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Orwellian arguments, fuzzy math and a hippie cult: This is the dawning of the S.F. midterm election: “You cannot legislate a solution to a problem that is fundamentally a management problem. It requires good management” - @EskSF missionlocal.org/2026/10/dan… via @MLNow
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New from me:
San Francisco's civic and political scene is a natural breeding ground for operatives at the world's leading AI giants.
Some are more obvious than others — most recently:
A former spokesman for the embattled former supervisor candidate Manny Yekutiel.
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BigMoneySF: How Mayor Lurie's attempts to remake City Hall remade San Francisco's donor class.
Be sure to click on the interactive graphic that connects everything and everyone.
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On Oct. 20, join us for Mad Props: a live variety show where Bay Area journalists help you make sense of the upcoming election — with a little humor along the way.
Comedian Sophia Garrow and journalists from @sfstandard, @KALW, @KQED, @MLNow, and more will cover some of the most consequential decisions on your ballot this year 🗳️
Tickets: sf.news/4icwxRF
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Patrick Collison, the Stripe CEO, has donated $500,000 to Mayor Lurie's ballot measures remaking San Francisco's charter
the three measures would reform city contracting, make it harder to put measures on the ballot, & expand mayoral power
they've got $12.5 million in backing
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Mike Ege, editor of the Voice of San Francisco, wrote an idiotic piece this morning without bothering to pick up the phone and call us for comment.
We were instead subject to a lecture on reporting from someone who didn't do any. Telling for him and that outlet, but sad!
Eskenazi’s questionnaire is, technically, a survey.
But the timing makes it something more interesting.
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If you've got some free time next Thursday...
NEXT WEEK
Come to the Internet Archive on Thurs, Oct. 8, for a free talk on money in San Francisco politics.
Who is spending the most? When does money win? When does it lose?
And is San Francisco an outlier across the country?
RSVP here: luma.com/3tgmuo29
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I've been covering the school board race and education for ML... This was a pretty fun one. Here are some more photos from Steve Kerr's visit.
Students, as rumors spread, at Visitacion Valley Middle School proclaimed to their friends that "Steph Curry was there!"
But it wasn’t Curry. Instead, it was his famous coach, Steve Kerr, visiting with the franchise on its day of service.
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New from me:
After much public scrutiny, San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday dialed back a proposed $33 million extension to Mayor @DanielLurie 's OpenGov permitting overhaul software.
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21st century equivalent of legacy gas stations and their remediation costs for housing. The wrinkle being these prime sites aren't owned by franchise owners but rather tech capital with significant site infrastructure upgrades made. @MLNow / @EskSF
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In @MLNow there is a good piece by @EskSF about the land rush for centrally located AV depots
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“If you could rent out your land to an AV company and you’re getting a 6 percent return on land value, why would you sell your land?” asks the broker. “You’d have to get a lot more.” @EskSF
@MLNow missionlocal.org/2026/09/rob…
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ICYMI, The Frisc is shutting down this month. We still have a few more stories coming up and the site will remain live.
Thanks to @MLNow and the @sfstandard for the coverage on this decision (threaded below 👇️ ).
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Important news: We’ve decided to shut down The Frisc. Thanks to everyone for your support and attention all these years — nearly a decade, in fact. See our full announcement at thefrisc.com/important-news-….