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2 weeks ago | 
berkeleyside.org | Xueer Lu |Zac Farber
Editors’ note: A version of this story first appeared on Mission Local. Workers at the Berkeley sex-toy shop Good Vibes, along with colleagues at the chain’s six other locations, have unanimously ratified their first union contract after their February 2024 vote to unionize.
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1 month ago | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu |Joe Eskenazi
It’s been almost 100 days of Daniel Lurie as San Francisco mayor. During his 13-month-long campaign, Lurie promised to make streets safer and cleaner, to crack down on open-air drug markets, revitalize downtown, and reduce homelessness. He has worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass legislation to expedite contracts related to homelessness, drug overdoses, and substance use, and pushed the board to let go of some of its oversight power.
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1 month ago | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu |Lydia Chávez
In the wake of the pandemic, the 16th and 24th Street BART stations became overwhelmed by unpermitted vendors selling stolen and other goods. They block pedestrian traffic, extort money from other sellers, and threaten Bart workers and passersby. Former Supervisor Hilary Ronen described trying to fix it as “literally one of the most frustrating things I’ve ever dealt with in my life.” The problem?
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2 months ago | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu |Joe Rivano Barros
Two San Francisco families who were set to be evicted from their homeless shelters on Monday night have won a reprieve following protests by advocates and several press stories highlighting their plight, according to Matt Alexander, an advocate working with the families.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu
Mission Local is holding intro interviews with incoming elected officials, starting with Chyanne Chen. 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. Longtime labor organizer Chyanne Chen won the race for District 11 Supervisor by just 198 votes — defeating Michael Lai, a recent arrival to the district.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu
The newly sworn-in Mayor Daniel Lurie this morning named his first major department head: Battalion Chief Dean Crispen, a 34-year veteran of the fire department, will lead the department as the fire chief. He will be sworn in on Jan. 21. Crispen has served as captain of stations in Chinatown, North Beach, and SoMa, and as currently serves as a battalion chief.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Abigail Neely |Abigail Van Neely |Junyao Yang |Kelly Waldron |Xueer Lu
San Francisco just welcomed its new mayor Daniel Lurie on Jan. 8 — a then “change” candidate and now a mayor who promises accountability and services. Mission Local spoke to people around the city who attended Daniel Lurie’s inauguration events, asking what, specifically, the new mayor can do for them. Click on their photos to read their stories. Want the latest on the Mission and San Francisco? Sign up for our free daily newsletter below.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu
To get to where he is now — delivering his inauguration speech in front of a crowd of 2,000 attendees sitting at Civic Center Plaza alongside many hundreds of onlookers — Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, ran a $9.6 million campaign over 13 months, putting up his blue-and-yellow name signs all over town. Now, under a cloudless blue sky, the Civic Center Plaza and the front of City Hall were adorned with blue-and-gold banners depicting the rising sun of a brand new day.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu
Mission Local is tracking Daniel Lurie’s appointments on a live page here, where you can see the comings and goings at the major city departments and the mayor’s office as they happen. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie this morning named Kunal Modi, a partner of consulting firm McKinsey’s Bay Area office, to be his policy chief of health, homelessness, and family services, with a focus on issues such as behavioral health, unsheltered homelessness, and the city’s support and services provided to residents.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
missionlocal.org | Xueer Lu
Mission Local is tracking Daniel Lurie’s appointments on a live page here, where you can see the comings and goings at the major city departments and the mayor’s office as they happen. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie this afternoon named Alicia John-Baptiste, the president and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) to be his chief of infrastructure, climate, and mobility in the mayor’s office.
