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1 month ago | 
missionlocal.org | Lydia Chávez |Oscar Palma
Mayor Daniel Lurie has made the 16th Street BART Plaza one of his targets to illustrate how the city can make a difference. For years, the plaza has been a place of violence, drug use and mayhem. Recently, unpermitted vending has made it more chaotic. On quieter days – and during earlier crackdowns – it is also a place where local men and women who live in the city’s SROs can hang out and get some fresh air.
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1 month ago | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma |Joe Eskenazi
The 16th Street BART plaza is the new home, at least temporarily, of a San Francisco Police Department mobile command unit —a bus-sized vehicle that arrived Wednesday afternoon at around 2 p.m., motoring onto an area that has recently become the center of attention for both City Hall and law enforcement. It is unclear if officers will be deployed out of the vehicle or if it will simply serve as a visual reminder to denizens of a police presence.
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2 months ago | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma |Joe Eskenazi
Mission Local is holding intro interviews with incoming and incumbent supervisors, including Shamann Walton,Chyanne Chen, Jackie Fielder,Joel Engardio,Danny Sauter, andStephen Sherill. You can read those interviews as they are published here. Mission Local also held exit interviews with elected officials leaving office after the Nov. 5, 2024 election: London Breed, Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen, Ahsha Safaí and Dean Preston. On Jan.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
Mission Local is holding intro interviews with incoming elected officials, starting with Chyanne Chen and now Jackie Fielder. You can read other interviews as they are published here. Mission Local also held exit interviews with elected officials leaving office after the Nov. 5, 2024 election: London Breed, Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen, Ahsha Safaí and Dean Preston. Last week Jackie Fielder was sworn in as the supervisor for District 9 — which includes the Mission, Portola, and Bernal Heights.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is asking residents to fill out its Accessibility Strategy Needs Survey to help the agency identify and address transportation improvements for riders with disabilities and older adults through the next five years.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
When Hillary Ronen sat down with Mission Local in early December, she said she had left it all on the table fighting for her constituents. On Wednesday night at her farewell roasting at El Rio, it was no different, as she delivered one last time as outgoing District 9 supervisor. “I feel like you can’t get through a job this tough if you don’t have a good sense of humor,” she said.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
Newly elected Supervisor Jackie Fielder was up early Wednesday morning to take a ride on her blue scooter, meeting some 13 businesses across District 9. The Mission, 7 a.m.It was still dark when Fielder introduced herself and her campaign manager turned legislative aide Sasha Gaona — who will be in charge of the Mission District — to employees of Grand Coffee Too at 2544 Mission St. Don’t hesitate to reach out, Fielder advised as she handed employees a card.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
The 47-year-oldMission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has laid off the majority of its staff and will reduce its hours by 40 percent, according to the center’s executive director Martina Ayala — a blow for one of the Mission’s oldest cultural institutions. Ayala blamed the dramatic cutbacks on a delay in the dispersal of city funds and an unexpected $200,000 financial setback after late November flooding required an extensive cleanup. “It wasn’t an easy decision. It wasn’t a light decision.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
The Latinx Democratic Club announced today that Kevin Ortiz is back as its president after an internal investigation did not support the allegations of sexual assault that were reported by the San Francisco Chronicle last summer. Ortiz had served as the club’s co-president until early July, when he resigned days after Zahra Hajee, who was a former aide to Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, and an anonymous woman went public with sexual assault allegations.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Oscar Palma
Mission Local is holding exit interviews with elected officials leaving office as a result of the Nov. 5, 2024 election: London Breed, Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen, Ahsha Safaí, and Dean Preston. You can see read our other interviews as they are published here. After eight years in office, District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen said she left it all on the table, and that it’s time for her to move on from City Hall.
