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Mission Street celebrates National Taco Day with a taco tour

Many took a stroll through the Mission on Friday on a taco tour to celebrate National Taco Day. Pollo, carne asada, al pastor, shrimp and other less well-known options such as crispy potato and cochinita pibil were part of a menu that featured 10 local restaurants, each offering their own signature creation.Participants had the option of buying a $17 ticket that included five tacos from any of the participating establishments. For an extra $40 they could also secure a spot in a tour of five restaurants led by Mission Loteria’s creator Luis Quiroz. The 10 participating restaurants: El Rey Taquiza, Al Carajo, Café de Olla, La Corneta, Taqueria Vallarta, Chava’s Restaurant, El Catrachito, Donaji, Frisco Flavor and Casa de la Condesa. Friday’s 2 p.m. lunch tour started with a shrimp taco at La Corneta, a crispy Potato at Casa de la Condesa, a […]

Karl The Fog October 5, 2024

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District 1 candidates, almost all parents, discuss school closures

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. San Francisco Unified School District is planning to close and merge selected schools, part of its plan called the Resource Alignment Initiative. But the district has delayed announcing which schools are slated for closure, first until this month and now until after the election. In response to that, Mayor London Breed announced that the city will intervene by sending a team of experts to support the school district and deploying $8.4 million in financial support.  We ask candidates this week: What are your thoughts on SFUSD’s Resource […]

Karl The Fog October 5, 2024

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Daniel Lurie, the Democrat, gets supports from Republican group

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: Daniel Lurie. Read earlier dispatches here.With ballots being mailed out to San Francisco voters on Oct. 7, the 7.6 percent of them who registered as Republicans might be surprised to see whom their fellow Republicans are telling them to vote for. A rising Republican political group called San Francisco Briones Society has put moderate-leaning Democratic candidate Daniel Lurie as their first choice for the November election, ranking Mark Farrell as second and the incumbent Mayor London Breed as third. All three are registered Democrats.  This came at the expense of Farrell, whose conservative campaign rhetoric has won over law-and-order voters and is backed by donors such as Thomas Coates — a rent-control foe who gave $500,000 to a […]

Karl The Fog October 4, 2024

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School board candidates on rescheduled antisemitism workshops

Welcome back to the “Meet the Candidates” series for the school board, where we ask each candidate one question every two weeks. They must answer the question in 100 words or fewer. We will link to longer answers.Eleven candidates are vying for four seats on the city’s seven-person school board. The election will take place on Nov. 5. Non-citizen parents of children living in the city are permitted to vote in school board elections, and can find information on doing so here.In September, the San Francisco Unified School District abruptly canceled mandatory antisemitism workshops for educators that would have been run by the American Jewish Committee. The move came after some parents and community groups expressed concerns with the American Jewish Committee; some have called it a “Pro-Israel lobbying group.” Other community members, however, criticized the decision amid what they […]

Karl The Fog October 4, 2024

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SF mayor, city attorney broke law by deleting texts, task force says

The Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, San Francisco’s oversight body responsible for public records and transparency laws, unanimously ruled on Wednesday night that Mayor London Breed and City Attorney David Chiu both violated city law by deleting text messages dealing with official business.The eight members of the task force in attendance — two were absent, one seat is vacant — also unanimously referred the mayor’s actions to the San Francisco Ethics Commission for investigation and possible discipline.“This seems like such an egregious practice,” said Dean Schmidt, an attorney and task force member. “This is a person who’s probably constantly sending messages around the city, and yet … none of them are making it to the public record. I mean that is a quantum violation, in my estimation, of public records laws.”“It means everything’s been deleted,” Schmidt continued, indicating not just a […]

Karl The Fog October 3, 2024

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Preston, Mahmood joust over police funding, housing in contentious debate

Bilal Mahmood, an entrepreneur and District 5 supervisor candidate, repeatedly picked fights with incumbent Dean Preston at a Wednesday night debate, scolding the incumbent for saying he would defund the police, and for criticizing national policies around police funding. “You are sending a message to police officers that their work is ‘pointless’ and that is why we are unable to hire staff and we are unable to arrest fentanyl dealers today,” Mahmood said. Preston shot back. “If you want a politician who is just going to, every budget season, write a blank check to this police department of $50 million to $100 million extra, with no accountability on how that’s being spent — if you want that kind of person — maybe he’s [sitting] to my right.”  “He is,” Mahmood agreed “So you’re a rubber stamp for police budgets?” Preston said incredulously at the UC […]

Karl The Fog October 3, 2024

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District 3 candidates weigh in on school closures

Between February and the November election, Mission Local is asking each District 3 candidate one question per week, and candidates will get 100 words to respond. We will compile all responses to the 40-odd questions on a “Meet the Candidates” page, so that voters can get a full picture of their stances.Because Supervisor Aaron Peskin terms out next January, six candidates have filed to run for his seat to lead District 3, which includes North Beach, Chinatown, Union Square, the Financial District, Russian Hill and Nob Hill. Question this week: What are your thoughts on the SFUSD ‘Resource Alignment Initiative’?One candidate said “I am firmly against closing schools in San Francisco.” Sharon Lai Job: Economic recovery leader at the World Economic Forum, former board member at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Age: 41 Residency: Tenant and owner, living in District 3 since […]

Karl The Fog October 2, 2024

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Alleged mugging suspects arrested after trying to hide in a jewelry store

Police detained a group of young men Tuesday at around 5 p.m. for allegedly assaulting and attempting to rob a pedestrian near Angie’s Jewelry Store at 2386 Mission St . near 20th Street. It’s unclear how many men were arrested, but it appeared to be around five men.  The victim was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries at around 6:30 p.m.The suspects allegedly assaulted the victim and then ran into the jewelry store, according to several businesses. A worker at the jewelry store said a couple of guys ran into his store. He thought they were customers until police surrounded the area and took the suspects into custody. At least four police SUVs were parked on Mission Street. Pedestrians watched from the bus stop on the east side of the street as officers arrested several young men.  A community member […]

Karl The Fog October 2, 2024

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Peskin leading in direct fundraising, Prop. M gets another boost

In the two weeks since Mission Local last published a campaign finance dispatch, a total of $2.7 million was put toward the San Francisco general election on Nov. 5, bringing the latest total to an eye-watering $45.6 million. Since then, the Ethics Commission has also published more detailed data on campaign committees’ finances: On Thursday, every campaign was required to file their totals for money raised and spent  from July 1 to Sept.  21. This included individual candidate committees, like those controlled directly by mayoral candidates and others, and third-party political action committees. The mayor’s race is, by far, the priciest contest: A total of $23 million has been fundraised among the candidates running, the bulk of it from the Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie. Then, the 15 propositions have fundraised $12.8 million, though most of that, $8.7 million, […]

Karl The Fog October 1, 2024

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Fire strikes S.F. public housing known for squatters, mismanagement

A one-alarm fire broke out on Missouri Street in the Potrero Hill public housing complex on Monday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department, which posted video of firefighters on the roof of an apartment, flames shooting through the ceiling.Lt. Mariano Elias, a department spokesperson, said the building was empty and that there were no injuries. The call “came in shortly after 7 p.m.,” he said, and firefighters saw “fire blowing out the windows” at the three-story building. “Upon arrival, all three floors of the housing were on fire. It was blowing through the roof.”Eight department vehicles were on scene, and smoke and ash filled the air as firefighters began removing charred wood from the newly blackened building — before tonight, the building was already scorched in a past fire. A fire at Missouri Street and Turner Terrace on […]

Karl The Fog October 1, 2024

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