San Francisco November 2024 Voter Guide - sfpublicpress.org
Oct 7, 2024 · 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.
November 2024 SF Voter Guide
Oct 7, 2024 · This is a nonpartisan analysis of the local measures on the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 5, 2024, election. Short on time? The team at “Civic,” our flagship radio program and podcast, provides brief rundowns of all the local measures:
Proposition O — Protect Access to Reproductive Care
Oct 7, 2024 · 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.
SF Latinx Residents Test Mental Health App
Nov 22, 2024 · This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast, “Civic.”Click the audio player below to hear the full story. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco’s Latinx residents experienced higher rates of infection and deaths, and greater losses of income and homes than did other ethnic groups. “We lost our jobs.
Proposition J — Oversight of City Funds for Youth Programs
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to put Proposition J on the November ballot. In the official proponent letter, signed by all supervisors but Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, they say it would enhance the “transparency and efficiency” of how the city allocates money to help young people.. That would include better tracking of dollars that City Hall gave the San Francisco ...
State Approves Closing SF’s Great Highway to Cars
Dec 12, 2024 · 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.
Proposition K — Make Great Highway Car-Free, Possibly a Park
Oct 7, 2024 · 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.
Shuttered Radiation Lab a Health Risk for Growing Neighborhood
Dec 16, 2024 · During that time, the lab also exposed San Francisco. When the facility closed in 1969, Atomic Energy Commission inspectors noted “significant radioactive contamination📄” in several buildings, some of which “could not be removed📄.”More than half a century later, as a massive residential development with thousands of planned homes rises close to …
Proposition M — Overhaul SF Business Tax System
Oct 7, 2024 · 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 homelessness, digital inequity and downtown recovery.
Proposition D — Eliminate City Commissions, Empower Mayor
Oct 7, 2024 · 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 outlet.. Proposition D’s many mandates would also ...