San Francisco November 2024 Voter Guide - sfpublicpress.org
2024年10月7日 · 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.
State Approves Closing SF’s Great Highway to Cars
2024年12月12日 · 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.
Navy Lab in SF Became Hub for Human Radiation Experiments
2024年11月25日 · The Navy’s San Francisco lab was a major Cold War research facility with a unique focus on “radiological defense,”📄 techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle …
Proposition O — Protect Access to Reproductive Care
2024年10月7日 · 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.
Proposition F — Delay Officer Retirement to Bolster Police Staffing
2024年10月7日 · 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.
Proposition K — Make Great Highway Car-Free, Possibly a Park
2024年10月7日 · 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.
SF Proposition Results for Nov. 5 Election
2024年11月5日 · 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 …
Proposition C — New Inspector General to Fight Local Corruption
2024年10月7日 · 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 D — Eliminate City Commissions, Empower Mayor
2024年10月7日 · Support. By transferring power from commissioners to elected politicians, Proposition D would make government more directly accountable to voters, according to TogetherSF Action, the political advocacy group that sponsored the measure and is funded by billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz, who also owns The San Francisco Standard news …
Proposition M — Overhaul SF Business Tax System
2024年10月7日 · 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 …