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  • San Francisco Officials Planning To Exit Downtown Offices

    03/18/2024 8:19:03 AM PDT · by Sam77 · 14 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 18 March 2024 | ILAN HULKOWER
    San Francisco city officials plan to pull its offices from a downtown building near City Hall due to high rent and a bad real estate market, The San Francisco Standard reported Friday. The 11-story building in downtown San Francisco was initially leased to city and county officials back in 1999 and has over the years served as office space for many municipal departments like the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector, the Mayor’s Office of Disability and the Department of the Environment, the outlet reported.
  • Man who stabbed 94-year-old woman gets probation despite prosecutor’s protests (San Francisco)

    03/16/2024 8:08:36 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 31 replies
    sfstandard.com ^ | March 15, 2024 | Han Li
    The perpetrator in a high-profile stabbing case from June 2021 was sentenced to five years of probation and supervision programs at San Francisco Superior Court Friday, despite arguments by the prosecutor that the attacker should be imprisoned for the crime. Anh “Peng” Taylor, a Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant who was 94 years old at the time of the attack, was stabbed multiple times in the city’s Lower Nob Hill neighborhood in broad daylight when she was walking down the street. Caught on camera during a period of high-profile attacks on Asian Americans, the incident shook the city. Taylor fell “in...
  • 'Traumatized' residents of wealthy San Francisco neighborhood resort to using CHICKEN WIRE to protect their homes against intruders as crime spirals - with even 'hard-core natives' feeling so unsafe they want to move

    03/15/2024 9:41:32 PM PDT · by Morgana · 22 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 15, 2024 | Alex Hammer
    Citizens in a residential area of San Francisco are bolstering their homes with chicken wire in a bid to keep out intruders. Happening in the city's Richmond District, the safety measures come amid a recent jump in burglaries, robberies, and homicides in the affluent neighborhood. Headline-grabbing incidents like thieves making off with a Bank of America ATM earlier this year have even longtime residents on edge - with some installing cameras and safety locks along with the unconventional farm equipment. Several have attended community meetings and made posts on social media as the rampant crime wave persists. In interviews with...
  • Hu Knows: Eric Swalwell Bundler Fang Fang Breaks Cover, Reveals FBI Offered Her $1 Million

    03/14/2024 5:56:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/14/2024 | By Neil W. McCabe
    The Chinese operative, who was Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-CA) personal companion and staffer, broke cover in an X-post of her sitting with a Global Times reporter nearly 10 years after her abrupt exit from the United States—shortly after the FBI warned Swalwell she was a foreign agent.“I had lunch with this lady today. Her name is Fang Fang, and U.S. media called her a ‘suspected Chinese spy,’ wrote Hu XiJin, along with the operative who became an omnipresent force in San Francisco Bay Democratic politics—with significant dalliances in the Midwest.Hu wrote that Fang Fang, who presented herself in the U.S....
  • ‘Stranger Things’ Star’s Book Signing Cancelled Over “Safety Concerns” After Israel Comments

    03/09/2024 7:19:44 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    NME ^ | 8th March 2024 | Alex Berry
    The event marked the third cancellation on the book tourStranger Things star Brett Gelman has spoken out after a third bookstore cancelled his signing event, following backlash surrounding his views on Israel. Book Soup in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, was set to be the next stop on the star’s debut book tour, promoting his short story collection, The Terrifying Realm Of The Possible: Nearly True Stories (set for release on March 19). However, similarly to bookstores in San Francisco and Winnetka, Illinois, Book Soup have cancelled his appearance. The decision comes after Gelman has been outspoken in support of Israel,...
  • Video: Tire falls off United flight after takeoff from San Francisco

    03/07/2024 2:02:03 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 57 replies
    Tire falls off United flight after takeoff from San Francisco; diverted plane lands safely at LAX
  • San Francisco passes law-and-order measures by large margins, including drug screening for welfare recipients

    03/06/2024 6:41:44 AM PST · by devane617 · 17 replies
    foxnews ^ | 03/06/2024
    San Francisco voters passed a pair of law-and-order ballot measures on Tuesday night, including one that would require welfare recipients suspected of using drugs to undergo screenings to receive benefits. It marks yet another rebuke of progressive policies in the famously liberal city, following the recall of far-left District Attorney Chesa Boudin in 2022. The welfare requirement, called Proposition F, had 63 percent support as of Wednesday morning, according to the most recent election results online. Proposition E, which expanded some police surveillance powers and reined in some oversight, had support from 60 percent of voters. There are still votes...
  • Over 60% of San Francisco residents support Propositions E and F, signaling a shift towards enhanced law enforcement and welfare screening.

    03/06/2024 7:03:25 AM PST · by davikkm · 12 replies
    Hey civic-minded folks! Big news from the Golden Gate City – over 60% of San Francisco residents have just given a nod to Propositions E and F. Let’s unpack the changes and what they might mean for the city’s future. First up, Proposition E is handing more tools to the police to tackle crime head-on. Think of it as a power-up for law enforcement, allowing them to fight crime more effectively, pursue suspects with added vigor, and even bring drones into the mix for catching criminals. It’s like a strategic upgrade for the city’s crime-fighting team.
  • San Francisco Votes for Police, Drug Tests; ‘Progressivism Is Out

    03/06/2024 7:01:40 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 10 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/06/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    3:07 Voters in San Francisco passed ballot measures on Super Tuesday that expanded police powers, required drug screening for welfare recipients, and reduced restrictions on commercial real estate development — a massive defeat for the left. The San Francisco Chronicle declared boldly in its front-page headline Wednesday morning: “PROGRESSIVISM IS OUT — FOR NOW,” and “Voters make it clear: San Francisco can no longer be called a progressive city.” It reported: For now, at least, San Francisco can no longer be called a progressive city. Not after voters approved ballot measures Tuesday to loosen restrictions on the police and screen...
  • World´s Oldest Woman Resides in Spain

    03/04/2024 9:53:10 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    EuroWeekly News ^ | 04 Mar 2024 | Anna Akopyan
    On March 4, the world´s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, celebrated her 117th birthday in Catalonia. Morera was born in San Francisco, USA, but returned to Spain with her family at the age of eight, spending the rest of her life in Catalonia. For the past 23 years, she has stayed in the nursing home, Residencia Santa Maria del Tura. “Order, tranquillity, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people” is what Morera credits her health and longevity to. Morera´s family arrived in Barcelona...
  • Giants’ Bob Melvin Will Require Team to Stand on Field for National Anthem

    03/03/2024 2:11:41 PM PST · by canuck_conservative · 19 replies
    Sports Illustrated ^ | March 3, 2024 | Joseph Salvador
    New San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin has instituted a new rule for his club in his first year with the the franchise, and it’s difficult to miss during spring training. Melvin is requiring every person in the team’s dugout to stand for the national anthem, and he explained why. “It’s all about the perception that we’re out there ready to play,” Melvin said, per The Athletic. “That’s it. You want your team ready to play, and I want the other team to notice it, too. It’s really as simple as that.” Melvin also made it clear his reasoning has...
  • 40-Year-Old San Francisco Diner Chain Closes All Locations, Cites Economy and Homelessness

    03/01/2024 11:40:20 AM PST · by Twotone · 34 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 29, 2024 | Charles Hilu
    A San Francisco restaurant chain recently closed its last two remaining locations after 40 years of operation, with the owner citing the city's economic challenges and homelessness. "COVID has been a disease for us, let's put it that way, so it's been difficult, and we tried opening six or eight stores in the beginning in 2021, and it was ugly," Lee's Diner founder and owner Lee Quan told the local ABC 7 in a report published Wednesday. "There was just nobody around—we can't do business." Quan, whose family-owned chain had 16 locations at its height, said after the pandemic, people...
  • San Francisco issues apology to Black residents for decades of discrimination

    02/28/2024 9:55:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/28/2024 | CHEYANNE M. DANIELS
    The city of San Francisco has issued a formal apology to Black residents for systemic racist and discriminatory policies over past decades. The board of supervisors for the city in a unanimous vote approved a resolution offering the apology. “This historic resolution apologizes on behalf of San Francisco to the African American community and their descendants for decades of systemic and structural discrimination, targeted acts of violence, atrocities as well as committing to the rectification and redress of past policies and misdeeds,” supervisor Shamann Walton said. The resolution identified actions including redlining, the razing of the Fillmore neighborhood and policies...
  • Every store is CLOSED on Mission St., San Francisco

    02/28/2024 8:04:06 AM PST · by lowbridge · 71 replies
    Youtube ^ | February 24, 2024 | Metal Leo
    Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront , recent street conditions have decimated local businesses large and small from retail pharmacies to restaurants , block after block of vacant store fronts is what mission street has been reduced to. In this video I’m walking the downtown part of the mission, what I found is a transformation of the city no one could have imagined just a few years ago.
  • San Francisco is ready to apologize to Black residents. Reparations advocates want more

    02/27/2024 6:30:37 AM PST · by devane617 · 34 replies
    yahoo ^ | 02/27/2024
    San Francisco's supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution apologizing to African Americans and their descendants. All 11 members have signed on as sponsors, guaranteeing its passage. It would be one of the first major U.S. cities to do so. The resolution calls on San Francisco to not repeat the harmful policies and practices, and to commit “to making substantial ongoing, systemic, and...
  • San Francisco store requires customers to shop with employee escort to curb ‘rampant shoplifting’

    02/23/2024 4:38:46 PM PST · by Twotone · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 22, 2024 | Patrick Reilly
    A San Francisco store is no longer allowing customers to roam around and shop without being escorted by an employee in an attempt to stop “rampant shoplifting,” according to a report. Fredericksen’s Hardware and Paint in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood has put up a sign announcing that during certain hours it will be taking customers only one at a time to curb the incessant thefts. The shop is blocking off part of the store’s entrance and corralling shoppers in a waiting area until an employee is able to help them, KRON4 reported. “Attention shoppers,” the sign reads. “Due to...
  • San Francisco Forced to Dismiss Hundreds of Petty Crime Cases Because of Pandemic Delays

    02/20/2024 9:30:08 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Hotair ^ | 02/20/2024 | John Sexton
    As if San Francisco didn't have enough problems with petty crimes, now the city is having to dismiss hundreds of cases which have dragged on for years thanks to the massive backlog created by the pandemic. It's great news for everyone who was charged with a misdemeanor in 2020 or 2021.In May 2023, Brenda Carroll was charged with domestic violence and elder abuse for allegedly getting into a drunken scuffle with her boyfriend and a man she was caring for after a day of swilling wine...On Wednesday, she finally walked into a San Francisco courtroom expecting a trial. Minutes later,...
  • Tyler Oliveira: I Investigated the City that Pays You to Do Drugs...

    02/18/2024 11:07:21 AM PST · by TigerClaws · 5 replies
    Tyler Oliveira: I Investigated the City that Pays You to Do Drugs... VANITY as not a 'real news source.' This one is on San Fransisco. Tyler has several videos and sad to see these cities being destroyed by Dems.
  • 20 Percent of Commercial and Multifamily Mortgage Balances Mature in 2024

    02/17/2024 12:57:35 PM PST · by george76 · 7 replies
    Mortgage Bankers Association’ ^ | February 12, 2024 | Falen Taylor
    Twenty percent ($929 billion) of the $4.7 trillion of outstanding commercial mortgages held by lenders and investors will mature in 2024, a 28 percent increase from the $729 billion that matured in 2023 ... “The lack of transactions and other activity last year, coupled with built-in extension options and lender and servicer flexibility, has meant that many loans that were set to mature in 2023 have been extended or otherwise modified and will now mature in 2024, 2026, 2028 or in other coming years,” said Jamie Woodwell, Head of Commercial Real Estate Research at MBA. “These extensions and modifications have...
  • 'I could've been set for life': This former Goldman Sachs analyst says his family of 4 can't live comfortably on $230K a year after buying 'forever home.' Is the American dream out of reach?

    02/17/2024 10:36:10 AM PST · by grundle · 83 replies
    AP Moneywise via Yahoo ^ | February 17, 2024 | Serah Louis
    Former Goldman Sachs analyst Sam Dogen — also known as the Financial Samurai online — once decided to cash in on a huge chunk of his investments to buy a “forever home” for his family. But by selling his stocks and bonds, he lost about $150,000 a year in passive income. “My family and I could have been set for life. Instead, due to my inability to beat back real estate FOMO (fear of missing out), I blew up our passive income,” Dogen wrote in a blog post. Dogen’s been investing for a long time. In fact, he first made...