J.D. Morris

San Francisco

SF City Hall Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle SF City Hall reporter focused on Mayor Daniel Lurie. alum of @northbaynews @lasvegassun @dailycal. California grown 🏳️‍🌈

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No Kings Day: Tens of thousands pack Bay Area streets and parks to defy Trump

1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Molly Burke |J D Morris |Maliya V. Ellis |J.D. Morris

Hundreds of people form a human banner at Ocean Beach in San Francisco during a No Kings Day gathering Saturday morning. Santiago Mejia/S.F. ChronicleDrake Housman, 9, chants during San Francisco’s No Kings Day protest against President Donald Trump. Manuel Orbegozo/For the S.F. ChronicleThe No Kings Day rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland draws thousands of protesters. Jungho Kim/For the S.F. ChronicleProtesters crowd Market Street during San Francisco’s No Kings Day march. Yalonda M.
Mayor Lurie made ‘painful’ cuts in his S.F. budget proposal. The hurt is far from over

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | J.D. Morris |Aldo Toledo

Several hundred, including unions from different sectors, rally against city layoffs and budget cuts outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, June 6, 2025Manuel Orbegozo/For the S.F. ChronicleSan Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said he made “painful decisions” when assembling his recent budget proposal that would slash nonprofit contracts and shrink the City Hall workforce. But the hurt is far from over.
S.F. Mayor Lurie rarely criticizes Trump. Will that change amid ICE protests?

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | J.D. Morris

Mayor Daniel Lurie takes questions from the press at a briefing about recent protests against ICE detentions in San Francisco, Monday, June 9, 2025. Manuel Orbegozo/For the S.F. ChronicleWhen a reporter asked San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to comment Monday on President Donald Trump’s statement that he was open to the idea of arresting Gov. Gavin Newsom, Lurie stuck to a familiar script.
ICE protests in S.F.: More demonstrations planned after chaotic night

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Jessica Flores |Aldo Toledo |J D Morris |J.D. Morris

ICE Out of The Bay protesters face off against San Francisco police near ICE headquarters on Sansome Street in San Francisco on Sunday, June 8, 2025. Scott Strazzante/S.F. ChronicleImmigrant-rights activists plan to descend on San Francisco City Hall and a highly trafficked BART station Monday afternoon to protest a spate of recent federal immigration arrests and the Trump administration’s most recent travel ban.
S.F. protesters rally against ICE raids and Trump’s deployment of National Guard

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | David Hernandez |J D Morris |J.D. Morris

ICE Out of The Bay protest included hundreds of people gathering at ICE headquarters on Sansome Street in San Francisco. Scott Strazzante/S.F. ChronicleA chalk slogan as seen outside the protest at ICE headquarters in San Francisco. Scott Strazzante/S.F. ChronicleSigns in the crowd at the San Francisco protest read: “F— ICE, immigrants are welcome here, “Stop ICE raids, don’t break up immigrant families,” “Immigration built this nation” and “No one is illegal on stolen land.”.
They raised tens of thousands to support S.F. parks. Their money might be gone

3 weeks ago | sanluisobispo.com | Michael Barba |J.D. Morris

After years spent transforming a San Francisco hillside once littered with trash into a lush community garden, a group of Portola neighbors hired a contractor this spring to turn the drab concrete steps cutting through the landscape into a colorful tiled stairway. The Steps to Wisdom project reimagined the public path leading up Goettingen Street as one reminiscent of the beloved Moraga Steps, a tourist destination on the other side of town.
How a San Francisco nonprofit scandal hurts quirky neighborhood park projects

3 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba |J.D. Morris

Phillip Hua sits on the steps he designed at Goettingen and Dwight streets in San Francisco on Wednesday. Neighbors who organized the project do not have the money to pay the contractor who built the steps due to the financial crisis that caused the Parks Alliance to close. Santiago Mejia/S.F. ChronicleLakeside Village banners on Tuesday. Santiago Mejia/S.F. ChronicleKath Tsakalakis wipes the tables at Lakeside Landing on Tuesday.
Troubled S.F. Parks Alliance will shut down amid city investigations

3 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | J.D. Morris

People are seen in Crane Cove Park in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, Friday, July 7, 2023. Stephen Lam/The ChronicleThe San Francisco Parks Alliance, a prominent nonprofit that helps improve the city’s public spaces, is preparing to dissolve after misspending millions of dollars and falling out of favor with city officials, donors and community partners. Board members of the nonprofit voted last week to wind the organization down, according to a person familiar with the matter.
S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie will loom large over the city’s next recall fight

4 weeks ago | sanluisobispo.com | J.D. Morris

May 30-San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie finds himself in a difficult position now that the campaign to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio has officially qualified for the ballot. Engardio, a staunch moderate, has been a loyal supporter of Lurie's policies, backing his legislative efforts and appearing by his side at news conferences.
Mayor Daniel Lurie proposes merger of two scandal-ridden S.F. departments

4 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | J.D. Morris |John Barned-Smith

Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to fold the Department on the Status of Women into the Human Rights Commission. Both departments lost their leaders amid scandals over the past year. Gabrielle Lurie/S.F. ChronicleWhat once were two scandal-ridden San Francisco city departments will be one, if Mayor Daniel Lurie has his way. Included in Lurie’s $15.9 billion annual budget plan he introduced Friday is a proposal to fold the Department on the Status of Women into the Human Rights Commission.