November 2024 SF Voter Guide
Oct 7, 2024 · This is a nonpartisan analysis of the local measures on the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 5, 2024, election. Short on time? The team at “Civic,” our flagship radio program and podcast, provides brief rundowns of all the local measures:
San Francisco November 2024 Voter Guide - sfpublicpress.org
Oct 7, 2024 · Independent, Nonprofit, In-Depth Local News. See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a nonpartisan analysis of measures on the San Francisco ballot, for the election occurring Nov. 5, 2024.
Proposition F — Delay Officer Retirement to Bolster Police Staffing
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. Proposition F would help sustain the San Francisco Police Department’s personnel levels while recruitment and training worked toward filling widespread vacancies resulting from attrition, according to the measure’s co-authors, including supervisors Matt Dorsey and Aaron Peskin, who is running for mayor.
State Approves Closing SF’s Great Highway to Cars
Dec 12, 2024 · The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a permit that will allow San Francisco to close a section of the Great Highway to car traffic permanently. The permit allows the city to close the roadway to cars between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard — known as the Upper Great Highway — as early as spring 2025.
SF Proposition Results for Nov. 5 Election
Nov 5, 2024 · After days of anticipation, the highly contentious Proposition K has passed, with 53.93% of voters in favor. The measure, which will permanently close a 2-mile stretch of the Great Highway, has sparked numerous debates in recent months over its potential impacts on traffic and businesses on the city’s west side. Voters in the Sunset District, which contains the affected road, overwhelmingly ...
Proposition O — Protect Access to Reproductive Care
Oct 7, 2024 · About Sylvie Sturm. Sylvie Sturm is an award-winning print journalist with 20 years of experience writing and editing for Canadian community newspapers. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2014, she’s shifted her attention towards audio journalism.
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San Francisco cannot prove it follows an aspect of its encampment clearing policy intended to help people retain essential belongings. Despite 588 clearings from January to mid-November, the city lacks evidence of a single signed declaration that staff advised unhoused people to separate essentials from property it was confiscating.
Proposition K — Make Great Highway Car-Free, Possibly a Park
Oct 7, 2024 · Proposition K marks the latest chapter in a saga that began early in the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, the Board of Supervisors closed the Upper Great Highway to vehicle traffic so that residents could walk and bike there while social distancing, to slow the disease’s spread — a move that was widely popular.
Proposition C — New Inspector General to Fight Local Corruption
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The measure’s supporters hope it would let San Francisco lead the effort to root out bad actors at City Hall. “Rather than having the FBI get to the bottom of our dirty laundry, we can have our own city do it,” said Aaron Peskin, president of the Board of Supervisors, at a July public meeting.Peskin wrote the measure and is running for mayor.
Proposition M — Overhaul SF Business Tax System
Oct 7, 2024 · Audrey Mei Yi Brown (they/them) is a Report for America corps member and covers environmental equity for the San Francisco Public Press. Previously, they were a contributing editor at KneeDeep Times and worked at the San Francisco Chronicle on SFNext, a civic engagement initiative, where they covered a range of city issues spanning homelessness, digital inequity and downtown recovery.