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She said he joined her team on multiple morning shifts to ensure kids got to school safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incoming Mayor Lurie was the very first to request to come back and then come back again,” Robinson said. “That set him apart just for me, personally, seeing the level of care and seeing how genuinely interested he was in talking to the residents, talking to our safety stewards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said the new administration has a lot of ideas and energy, but San Francisco residents will expect the city to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When all the ceremony and all that goes away, we still have a job to do, so it’s really important that we stay focused on getting that job done, and that’s where my focus is,” Scott said. “Of course, I’m gonna do the things that the mayor has asked for us to do and do that to the best of my ability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrell Luckett, who’s lived in the Tenderloin for 40 years, stopped Lurie and urged him to follow through on his promises to clean up encampments and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said he’s gonna do it. 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He wished him success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, homelessness is one of my concerns that’s near and dear to my heart because, at one time, I struggled with homelessness in San Francisco, and the support and the help that I received from the community was what allowed me to stand up and rebuild my life,” Bishop said. “I’m just hoping that he is able to translate his ideas into a working plan that assists the unhoused population.”[aside postID=news_12020848 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00196-1020x680.jpg']With his two children and wife at his side, Lurie took the stage just before noon to take the oath of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You voted for accountability and change, a clear mandate that my administration will work to fulfill every single day,” Lurie said at the beginning of his address. “Lasting change doesn’t happen overnight — it takes time,” Lurie said. “But if we are consistent, if we have vision, if we aren’t afraid to make tough decisions, San Francisco will rise to new heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made several announcements during the speech, including that he does not plan to cut police funding despite the city’s major budget deficit. 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She said he joined her team on multiple morning shifts to ensure kids got to school safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incoming Mayor Lurie was the very first to request to come back and then come back again,” Robinson said. “That set him apart just for me, personally, seeing the level of care and seeing how genuinely interested he was in talking to the residents, talking to our safety stewards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said the new administration has a lot of ideas and energy, but San Francisco residents will expect the city to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When all the ceremony and all that goes away, we still have a job to do, so it’s really important that we stay focused on getting that job done, and that’s where my focus is,” Scott said. “Of course, I’m gonna do the things that the mayor has asked for us to do and do that to the best of my ability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrell Luckett, who’s lived in the Tenderloin for 40 years, stopped Lurie and urged him to follow through on his promises to clean up encampments and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said he’s gonna do it. 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Though he had often vowed to declare a fentanyl state of emergency on his first day in office, experts had said it likely wouldn’t be possible under city rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we speak, the San Francisco Police Department and Sheriff’s Department are rapidly shifting resources and personnel to bring drug dealers to justice and clean up our streets,” he told the hundreds of people gathered at Civic Center, including former mayors Willie Brown, Art Agnos, Frank Jordan and the incoming Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration will make permanent the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989112/can-san-francisco-arrest-its-way-out-of-tenderloins-drug-crisis\">Drug Market Agency Coordination Center\u003c/a>, a move spearheaded by former Mayor London Breed to streamline efforts by local law enforcement and other city departments to shut down open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott has also been tasked with creating a road map to extend its operation to 24 hours a day and expand its reach to the 6th Street corridor, which has seen an increase in drug activity in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00309-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie addresses a crowd of hundreds for the first time as city mayor on Inauguration Day at Civic Center in downtown San Francisco, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of December, the DMACC has made more than 5,000 arrests and seized 277 lbs of fentanyl, according to SFPD data — numbers Lurie hopes will grow with a wider reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl crisis is not a 9-to-5 operation, and neither can we be. We have to have a response 24-7,” he told reporters ahead of his speech, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020422/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-launches-political-career-cable-cars-chinatown-market-prayer\">riding a cable car down Powell Street\u003c/a> with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who has made efforts to connect with the incoming and returning members of the Board of Supervisors since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">his November election\u003c/a>, said that the package of emergency ordinances will go before the board on Tuesday and with an expedited approval process, could go into effect in about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would expand his and certain department leaders’ emergency powers to roll out drug and homelessness initiatives without the regular policy approval process, which can take six to 12 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020422 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-LurieInterfaithCeremony-23-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package will ask supervisors to waive certain rules around executing contracts and grants and speed up approval of contracts and leases for behavioral health, substance abuse and shelter services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is truly a new era of cooperation and mutual respect between City Hall, the Board of Supervisors, law enforcement, and the thousands of city employees working on the front lines,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career philanthropist, Lurie is also asking the board to authorize the use of private funds for public initiatives to address the fentanyl crisis. The ordinance would grant behested payment waivers to designated staff members, allowing them to fundraise and pre-authorize the city’s acceptance of private gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t unheard of — Breed fundraised privately to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989335/sf-mayors-bid-to-raise-25-million-for-pandas-spurs-skepticism-amid-budget-crunch\">bring pandas back to the San Francisco Zoo\u003c/a> last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board approves the package, it would also increase the city controller’s ability to transfer or repurpose funds and, together with the city administrator, to regulate and review the ordinances as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie celebrates with his family having taken the oath of office on Inauguration Day at Civic Center in downtown San Francisco, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie plans to lean heavily on the Police Department in his early days, launching two new police units in the coming months. In the spring, the Crisis Stabilization Unit will begin operating a 24-hour drop-off location where police can take people struggling on the streets who don’t need to go to the emergency room or be taken to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Chief Scott said the unit would help the department deal with the volume of calls that it gets daily and can’t keep up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020420 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see people that need help, and jail is not always the appropriate solution, the emergency room is not always the appropriate solution,” he said. “You need a place for those [people], and we don’t have the capacity right now to handle the volume of people that need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will also create another police-led team dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\">revitalizing the downtown corridor\u003c/a> in a bid to make it more welcoming to tourists, businesses, and the city’s workforce. San Francisco has been slower than other major cities to bounce back from the pandemic, with companies pulling their offices out of downtown and leaving previously bustling streets ominously quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is not to demand that the private sector be back in the office every day,” Lurie said. “My job is to make you want to be downtown again — for work, with your family, and with your friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the area should be inviting all year, not only when a conference like 2023’s Asia-Pacific Environmental Cooperation forum or next week’s JP Morgan Healthcare Conference comes to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where our comeback begins,” he said. “It is the greatest honor of my life to serve as your mayor at this critical moment in our history. I’m asking all of you, every single one of you, to join me in reclaiming our place as the greatest city in the world — with a new era of accountability, service, and change. It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:26 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a>, whose term in the U.S. House ended this month, announced Wednesday morning that she is running for Oakland mayor in this year’s special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her announcement comes after a turbulent year for Oakland, during which the city contended with recall campaigns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">a massive budget deficit\u003c/a> and criticisms over public safety. Former Mayor Sheng Thao was recalled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda\">a significant margin\u003c/a> in November, less than two years into her term as Oakland’s 51st mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a 13-term member of Congress and a leading progressive voice, is likely to have broad support in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oaklanders have always overcome challenges by coming together,” she said in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/barbaralee_ca/status/1877023784382734772?s=46\">a social media post\u003c/a> announcing her candidacy. “At this critical moment, we must not be a city divided, but a community united.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Thao’s recall, Oakland’s mayoral picture was muddy. City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas only served as interim mayor for a few weeks before stepping down to take her seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, which she won in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilmember Treva Reed (left), Congressional candidate Lateefah Simon and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (center) at a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Mills College in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bas has since been replaced by Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, who was sworn in Monday morning as interim mayor and will serve until a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016605/oakland-special-election-mess-after-mayoral-recall-heres-why\">special election\u003c/a> is held in April to fill out the rest of Thao’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates for the special election must declare by Jan. 17. So far, 15 others in addition to Lee have \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Apr-2025-Election-Candidate-List_2025-01-08-011658_dmom.pdf\">filed paperwork\u003c/a> at some point in the process. They include former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who ran against Thao two years ago and said shortly after the recall that he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">enter the race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor told KQED on Wednesday that he will continue his campaign and that Lee’s announcement does not change his strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland needs new, fresh perspectives when it comes to leadership and governance,” he said. “That’s what I intend to bring on the campaign trail in terms of how to address our tough challenges in ways that are diverging from the past administration and leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor also noted that while Lee’s progressive values may work in guiding policymaking in Washington, they may not be practical in Oakland when it comes to issues like minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020609 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250106-BarbaraLeeExitInterview-07.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renia Webb, another candidate and a former staffer in Thao’s District 4 City Council office, said she has respect for Lee and “was inspired by her courage to stand up against the Iraq war,” but said it was time for her to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland cannot afford to put Barbara Lee in place,” Webb said. “It will only further bankrupt our city and continue with the lawlessness that has plagued Oakland for far too long. She is the continuation of the progressive agenda that has ruined Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who served in Congress for more than two decades before choosing not to run for reelection last year to mount an unsuccessful bid for the Senate, has had her name floated by many Oakland leaders as a potential mayoral candidate since Thao’s recall was confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t think of a person better suited who truly loves this city and has the expertise and understanding of the legislative process to hold that position than Congresswoman Lee,” said Councilmember Carroll Fife. “She has the acumen, the temperament, the relationships and the experience to unite the city in a way I don’t see any candidates on the horizon being able to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@oaklandneedsbarbaralee/oakland-needs-barbara-lee-1ee21c4e3ae6\">letter\u003c/a> issued by a coalition of Oakland’s “business, labor, community, government and faith leaders” in December urged Lee to run for office due to her robust legislative experience and her previous involvement in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that to solve Oakland’s problems and unlock its powerful potential, it is going to take a unique combination of courage and proven experience. Barbara Lee embodies that,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signatories of the letter include former City Council President Bas and Councilmember Dan Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lee’s announcement on Wednesday morning, she said she had the support of Oakland firefighters and business and labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters have “been an early supporter of Barbara Lee both at the state and the federal level and we are 100% behind her campaign as Oakland’s mayor,” said Seth Olyer, president of the firefighters union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is a very difficult place to work, and so, we all believe in the mission of Oakland. We all believe in Oakland. We are Oaklanders,” Olyer continued. “We give our bodies and everything else to Oakland, and so, we’re all in this fight together. I know she has our back and we have hers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee took her first steps toward running for Oakland mayor on Monday, opening a \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1477668\">campaign account\u003c/a> titled “Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor 2025.” She also filed paperwork with the Secretary of State and with the city’s Public Ethics Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oaklanders have always overcome challenges by coming together,” she said in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/barbaralee_ca/status/1877023784382734772?s=46\">a social media post\u003c/a> announcing her candidacy. “At this critical moment, we must not be a city divided, but a community united.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Thao’s recall, Oakland’s mayoral picture was muddy. City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas only served as interim mayor for a few weeks before stepping down to take her seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, which she won in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/EastBayElection1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilmember Treva Reed (left), Congressional candidate Lateefah Simon and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (center) at a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Mills College in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bas has since been replaced by Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, who was sworn in Monday morning as interim mayor and will serve until a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016605/oakland-special-election-mess-after-mayoral-recall-heres-why\">special election\u003c/a> is held in April to fill out the rest of Thao’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates for the special election must declare by Jan. 17. So far, 15 others in addition to Lee have \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Apr-2025-Election-Candidate-List_2025-01-08-011658_dmom.pdf\">filed paperwork\u003c/a> at some point in the process. They include former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who ran against Thao two years ago and said shortly after the recall that he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">enter the race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor told KQED on Wednesday that he will continue his campaign and that Lee’s announcement does not change his strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland needs new, fresh perspectives when it comes to leadership and governance,” he said. “That’s what I intend to bring on the campaign trail in terms of how to address our tough challenges in ways that are diverging from the past administration and leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor also noted that while Lee’s progressive values may work in guiding policymaking in Washington, they may not be practical in Oakland when it comes to issues like minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> will be inaugurated as the 46th mayor of San Francisco on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political outsider with deep San Francisco roots, Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">election in November\u003c/a> punctuated residents’ desire for a City Hall shakeup following the city’s slow pandemic recovery and corruption scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After unseating incumbent Mayor London Breed, Lurie now faces the real test as he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020409/a-lot-can-go-wrong-san-francisco-mayoral-transition-i-would-know\">takes over the mayor’s office\u003c/a> in Room 200. But not without some festivities first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a walk through the Tenderloin and ride on the city’s iconic cable cars, Lurie’s official ceremony begins at Civic Center at 11:30 a.m., followed by an open house at City Hall and later a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969982/sf-edm-star-zhu-to-headline-daniel-luries-free-inauguration-party\">special night market in Chinatown\u003c/a> featuring San Francisco-born electronic music producer Zhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things are moving fast. Here’s a refresher on how we got here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s newest ‘City Hall insider’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in San Francisco, Lurie attended the elite Town School for Boys and University High School before heading to the East Coast for college and later to work for the Robin Hood Foundation. He founded the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community, which has given out grants for work in housing, health care and other social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has never worked directly in government or held an elected office. He did, however, work with the late Mayor Ed Lee on hosting the 2016 Super Bowl and worked with city agencies through Tipping Point on issues like homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020591\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie greets volunteers at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Lurie ran the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive mayoral campaign\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s history, topping nearly $16 million. Almost half of that came from his own wealth, and his mother, Mimi Haas, donated $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That financial boost afforded the political outsider plenty of advertising space in mailers, social media ads and television — even more so than opponents who raked in millions of dollars from wealthy tech donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-29-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s wealth tied him to older San Francisco institutions, but he ran a campaign focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014282/bay-area-voters-embrace-political-outsiders-in-historic-mayoral-shake-ups\">bringing a fresh perspective\u003c/a> to local government that resonated with both frustrated and open-minded voters. He regularly blamed so-called “City Hall insiders” for government inefficiency and problems like homelessness and street safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while he trailed opponents in early polls, he remained consistently voters’ second choice in a simulated ranked-choice ballot. By November — after a grueling election season that brought out new scandals, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012419/sf-mayoral-candidate-mark-farrell-pay-largest-ethics-fine-citys-history\">largest campaign ethics violation fine\u003c/a> in the city’s history against opponent Mark Farrell — Lurie was polling highly as both voters’ first and second choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city is poised for greatness, so let’s all come together,” Lurie told a room full of volunteers in neon vests on Sunday at a neighborhood cleanup in the Mission District. “It’s a new year. It’s a new mayor. New supervisors. Let’s get to work. Let’s roll up our sleeves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mayor’s policy platform, however, doesn’t stray dramatically from his predecessor, a fellow moderate Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has vowed to build new emergency shelter beds within his first six months of office and has said he plans to issue a state of emergency around the city’s overdose crisis. He’s also going to have to prove he can move the needle on building the thousands of approved units that are stalled in the city’s development pipeline to meet a state housing mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing City Hall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to usher in a renewed focus on accountability and ethics, but a few of his early picks have already raised some eyebrows. That included\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\"> naming OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u003c/a> to his transition team, a temporary and largely symbolic group of advisers, while the artificial intelligence company is actively lobbying City Hall for tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his long-term staff, Lurie appears to be trying to strike a balance by holding on to City Hall expertise that he’ll need to rely on while also bringing in some outside experience and perspectives on longstanding issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie and his wife Becca Prowda pick up trash in the Mission District in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, during a weekend of service before his inauguration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one of his first acts as mayor-elect, Lurie announced that he would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017698/lurie-unveils-major-shakeup-san-francisco-mayors-office\">four policy directors\u003c/a> as well as a chief of staff reporting directly to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018617/lurie-taps-ex-twitter-exec-tackle-sfs-housing-shortage-economic-rebound\">Ned Segal\u003c/a>, former Twitter chief financial officer, will be chief of housing and economic development; former SFPD commander \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">Paul Yep\u003c/a> will oversee public safety policy; Alicia John-Baptiste, former CEO of the urban policy research and advocacy organization SPUR, will take the lead on infrastructure, climate and mobility; and Kunal Modi, a partner at management consultant McKinsey & Co., will direct health, homelessness and family services. Former Giants executive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017884/sf-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-former-giants-executive-lead-staff\">Staci Slaughter\u003c/a> will be Lurie’s chief of staff.[aside postID=news_12020409 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie02-1020x680.jpg'] Unlike some of his opponents, Lurie hasn’t yet promised to fire and replace specific department heads — but he’ll soon have to tap someone to direct the Municipal Transportation Agency after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">Jeffrey Tumlin’s resignation\u003c/a>. Lurie also told voters that city department heads would essentially have to re-interview for their jobs, and he said those conversations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the day after his inauguration, Lurie plans to meet with all of the city’s department heads, he told reporters on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they’re working hard, and as much as that work is continuing, they also understand that things aren’t working and that they need to be held accountable, and they’re excited about that,” he said. “The focus is on accountability and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several new members of the Board of Supervisors will also be sworn in on Wednesday, including Danny Sauter (District 3), Bilal Mahmood (District 5), Jackie Fielder (District 9) and Chyanne Chen (District 11). The new board leans slightly more to the center after the November election, and Lurie, a moderate Democrat, will have to work with the full cohort to achieve those changes he promised voters in areas like homelessness, overdoses and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone uniformly agrees that what is happening downtown on 6th and Mission and 6th and Market is unacceptable,” Lurie said. “Every supervisor I’ve talked to agrees we need more mental health beds. We need more drug treatment beds. Everyone agrees on that and I agree on that. And that’s going to be my push.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a walk through the Tenderloin and ride on the city’s iconic cable cars, Lurie’s official ceremony begins at Civic Center at 11:30 a.m., followed by an open house at City Hall and later a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969982/sf-edm-star-zhu-to-headline-daniel-luries-free-inauguration-party\">special night market in Chinatown\u003c/a> featuring San Francisco-born electronic music producer Zhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things are moving fast. Here’s a refresher on how we got here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s newest ‘City Hall insider’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in San Francisco, Lurie attended the elite Town School for Boys and University High School before heading to the East Coast for college and later to work for the Robin Hood Foundation. He founded the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community, which has given out grants for work in housing, health care and other social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has never worked directly in government or held an elected office. He did, however, work with the late Mayor Ed Lee on hosting the 2016 Super Bowl and worked with city agencies through Tipping Point on issues like homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020591\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie greets volunteers at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Lurie ran the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive mayoral campaign\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s history, topping nearly $16 million. Almost half of that came from his own wealth, and his mother, Mimi Haas, donated $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That financial boost afforded the political outsider plenty of advertising space in mailers, social media ads and television — even more so than opponents who raked in millions of dollars from wealthy tech donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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By November — after a grueling election season that brought out new scandals, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012419/sf-mayoral-candidate-mark-farrell-pay-largest-ethics-fine-citys-history\">largest campaign ethics violation fine\u003c/a> in the city’s history against opponent Mark Farrell — Lurie was polling highly as both voters’ first and second choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city is poised for greatness, so let’s all come together,” Lurie told a room full of volunteers in neon vests on Sunday at a neighborhood cleanup in the Mission District. “It’s a new year. It’s a new mayor. New supervisors. Let’s get to work. Let’s roll up our sleeves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mayor’s policy platform, however, doesn’t stray dramatically from his predecessor, a fellow moderate Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has vowed to build new emergency shelter beds within his first six months of office and has said he plans to issue a state of emergency around the city’s overdose crisis. He’s also going to have to prove he can move the needle on building the thousands of approved units that are stalled in the city’s development pipeline to meet a state housing mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing City Hall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to usher in a renewed focus on accountability and ethics, but a few of his early picks have already raised some eyebrows. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the final days before his inauguration, San Francisco Mayor-elect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> announced his final two picks for policy director positions as part of his ongoing redesign of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Lurie named Alicia John-Baptiste, former Municipal Transportation Agency chief of staff and head of an influential urbanism nonprofit, as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility. On Tuesday, he tapped Kunal Modi, a management consultant from McKinsey & Co., as the city’s first chief of health, homelessness and family services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These choices rounded out Lurie’s roster of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017698/lurie-unveils-major-shakeup-san-francisco-mayors-office\">four close advisers\u003c/a> tasked with streamlining accountability within the city’s vast bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John-Baptiste and Modi will act as intermediaries between the mayor and the city’s 56 agencies, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">former SFPD commander Paul Yep,\u003c/a> who will lead public safety and emergency management efforts, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018617/lurie-taps-ex-twitter-exec-tackle-sfs-housing-shortage-economic-rebound\">ex-Twitter executive Ned Segal\u003c/a>, who will oversee housing and economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new deputy positions are intended to tighten the chain of command by reducing the number of the mayor’s direct reports. The idea behind the cabinet came from \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/SPUR_Designed_to_Serve.pdf\">recommendations \u003c/a>published last year by SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association), the city-planning group John-Baptiste has led for the past six years as CEO and three years as deputy director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia John-Baptiste speaks during the Battery Bluff’s opening celebration, a private event hosted by the Presidio Trust, on April 22, 2022. Jean-Baptiste is the president and CEO of San Francisco Planning Urban Research (SPUR), a member-supported nonprofit organization. She was tapped by Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am thrilled to be returning to government service at such a critical time for the future of San Francisco,” said John-Baptiste. “I’m also excited to directly implement a recommendation from SPUR’s good government work by joining the newly-created team of policy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new position, John-Baptiste will help Lurie coordinate between a large portfolio of departments: the SFMTA, the Port of San Francisco, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Public Works, the Environment Department and the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia brings extensive expertise in shaping bold, transformative policies, and whose leadership will enhance communication and transparency as we pursue a more sustainable, connected, and resilient San Francisco,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her time at SPUR, John-Baptiste worked at City Hall for about 16 years, moving between the SFMTA and the Planning Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020409 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie02-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled to partner with a leader in the transportation space that really understands our organization from the inside out,” Erica Kato, a spokesperson for the SFMTA, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is rebounding from a brutal period for public transportation in every American city. Lurie has yet to announce who will fill the vacancy left following the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">former SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin\u003c/a> in December after steering the agency through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">one of its worst fiscal crises\u003c/a> in recent history. Despite recent improvements in ridership, SFMTA is facing a nearly $300 million deficit starting in 2026 after state and federal relief is exhausted — a major challenge for both the incoming director and mobility policy chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a worrying increase in traffic deaths last year has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its street safety efforts, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020110/sf-speed-cameras-coming-march-will-they-help-cut-traffic-deaths\">criticism of the SFMTA\u003c/a> for falling behind on its “quick build” program to improve conditions at hundreds of locations by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jodie Medeiros, executive director of advocacy organization Walk SF, was encouraged by Lurie’s pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia is a problem-solver and public servant who understands that safe streets and sustainable transportation are crucial for San Francisco. This is a great choice for the city’s future,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s housing advocacy community also celebrated the news of John-Baptiste’s appointment as a victory for the movement to change city zoning regulations to encourage building housing at all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in a photo from November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corey Smith, the executive director of Housing Action Coalition, a group which he said spun out of SPUR 26 years ago, said John-Baptiste uniquely understands the “nitty-gritty” of policy while also maintaining “a big picture idea of what the future could hold for San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia is an expert in her world, in urbanism. She’s been in the advocacy space for a long time, but she’s been in the machine and knows how it works. It’s a good combination,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi, who will lead policy on public health and wellbeing, is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/kunal-modi\">partner at McKinsey and \u003c/a>also served on the board of directors for \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/impact/who-we-are/meet-our-team/board-of-directors/\">Larkin Street Youth Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/about/team/\">St. Anthony Foundation. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018617 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/NedSegalGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/about/team/\">He\u003c/a> will oversee eight departments that collectively administer some $6 billion in public funds, according to Lurie’s office. Modi is charged with streamlining operations across those departments to ensure greater coordination and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kunal has a track record of delivering results in some of the most complex and critical areas of public service,” Lurie said in a statement on Tuesday. “His leadership will be instrumental as we act urgently and compassionately to address homelessness, strengthen behavioral health systems, and ensure that all San Franciscans — especially our most vulnerable — have access to the support and services they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McKinsey, Modi helmed the company’s global social responsibility initiative and led its community service efforts in the Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> ran a successful campaign for San Francisco mayor by leaning into his status as an outsider, going so far as to say of Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">London Breed\u003c/a> and his other opponents, “Look where all their experience has gotten us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Lurie takes the oath of office Wednesday afternoon, he will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">be the \u003cem>chief insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — inheriting responsibility for a city government with a $16 billion budget and sprawling bureaucracy with some 34,000 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means firing department heads who don’t align with your priorities — or inviting them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">to leave\u003c/a>, hiring new ones, filling dozens of city commissions, meeting with new and old members of the Board of Supervisors and just plain getting to know the people who will be reporting to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, transitions from one mayor to the next in San Francisco have happened following assassinations, the election of a mayor to higher office, the sudden death of a mayor and the removal of the acting mayor for someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>transition is pretty orderly by comparison. But even routine transitions can be rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10741235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10741235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1988, I worked for Art Agnos when he took over as mayor for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>, who somewhat reluctantly left office due to term limits. Agnos and Feinstein were not allies or even friendly, and it showed in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She really had a tough time with it,” Agnos said this week. “And she cleared out the office. All the furniture was gone when we got there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No desk. No conference table. Fortunately, Agnos kept some Feinstein staffers, like unpaid protocol chief Charlotte Mailliard-Swig, who helped Agnos find furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, Feinstein and Agnos had a very public argument about the $180 million deficit he inherited from her. That was not helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will have a place to sit in his new office, but almost immediately, he’ll face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998404/breed-signs-15-9-billion-sf-budget-that-boosts-police-funding-cuts-from-public-health\">a massive city budget deficit\u003c/a> of more than $800 million — and he’ll be working with the people in charge of his predecessor’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They kept all of Mayor Breed’s budget staff, including her budget director,” said Sean Elsbernd, Breed’s chief of staff. “And I think it would have been a disaster to try to bring in someone new this fiscal year. Hiring, budgeting analysts — just through the regular process ain’t easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may well change once the new mayor submits his first city budget to the Board of Supervisors. But for now, that continuity will save time and minimize disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Lurie will certainly put his own imprint on the city government he leads. He’ll do that by his appointments, staff, public comments and visibility, and simply responding to inevitable crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s an old expression in politics that “you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.” It suggests that running for office requires inspirational speeches and grand ideas that captivate voters, while actually running something requires less exciting qualities like practicality, compromise and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie when he announced his candidacy for Mayor of San Francisco at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates can make promises or policy plans — as Lurie did — without knowing the limitations they’ll face from pending litigation they don’t have knowledge of due to attorney/client privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Lurie said he wanted to increase the use of ankle monitors to keep tabs on people awaiting trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">drug-related charges\u003c/a>. “I mean, that’s, in concept, a wonderful idea,” Elsbernd said. “But there is a whole load of litigation about those right now that are significantly hampering Sheriff [Paul] Miyamoto, who’s responsible for that. The mayor is not. The sheriff is. And the judges of the Superior Court are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New mayors can make all the plans they want, but as Agnos often said, “When you’re mayor, you don’t choose the issues. The issues choose you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An obvious example: earthquakes or some other natural disaster that strikes unexpectedly. Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">transition chief\u003c/a>, Sara Fenske Bahat, said they’ve been in touch with the Department of Emergency Management for weeks “to make sure that the team going in is connected to that team before tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks at Manny’s, a restaurant and events space in San Francisco, on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat was working under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani when Michael Bloomberg took over. She says it’s important for change, which Lurie is promising, to be “in the spirit of the culture of this place, right? This is a place that embraces change. This is a place that embraces outsiders. That wants to innovate. This is a place that wants to be respected for the uniqueness of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Cretan, Mayor Breed’s press secretary, noted that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019956/how-daniel-lurie-will-balance-the-need-for-insider-knowledge-with-outsider-perspective-2\">push for change\u003c/a> should be balanced with continuity for the sake of the thousands of civil servants who will continue working with the city once Breed leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be pushes for new ideas,” Cretan said. “But the key thing is to make sure that the incoming administration understands all the things that are happening in the city … and so a lot of that [transition] work is making sure people are set up for that work to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan said a lot of the transition is making sure Lurie is “aware of what he will be facing and what his team will be facing. But I don’t think it’s our job to be like, ‘This is how you need to do your job.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020118 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240819-DanielLuriePresser-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a relative outsider to city government comes with one big advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t owe anybody anything,” Lurie told KQED. “And so, I walk into that office unencumbered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means he can balance the budget by touching sacred cows that, for example, city unions might not want to see cut. At the same time, Elsbernd said, there are downsides that come with that fresh set of eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefit of being inside the building,” he said, “it’s not only do you see around corners, but you see around corners … and you see where the land mines are because you’ve landed on those land mines of the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as former Mayor Agnos notes, the toughest issues will find you “like heat-seeking missiles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s bad news, everybody ducks, and it comes straight into the mayor’s office and Room 200 [the mayor’s office at City Hall] and hits you right between the eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie may or may not enjoy a honeymoon in the coming months, but either way, he’ll soon be held accountable for all the issues he promised to fix, including homelessness, drug overdoses and revitalizing downtown. He’ll need all the luck and goodwill he can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 8: A previous version of this story misstated the year that Art Agnos took office as San Francisco mayor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, transitions from one mayor to the next in San Francisco have happened following assassinations, the election of a mayor to higher office, the sudden death of a mayor and the removal of the acting mayor for someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>transition is pretty orderly by comparison. But even routine transitions can be rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10741235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10741235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1988, I worked for Art Agnos when he took over as mayor for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>, who somewhat reluctantly left office due to term limits. Agnos and Feinstein were not allies or even friendly, and it showed in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She really had a tough time with it,” Agnos said this week. “And she cleared out the office. All the furniture was gone when we got there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No desk. No conference table. Fortunately, Agnos kept some Feinstein staffers, like unpaid protocol chief Charlotte Mailliard-Swig, who helped Agnos find furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, Feinstein and Agnos had a very public argument about the $180 million deficit he inherited from her. That was not helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will have a place to sit in his new office, but almost immediately, he’ll face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998404/breed-signs-15-9-billion-sf-budget-that-boosts-police-funding-cuts-from-public-health\">a massive city budget deficit\u003c/a> of more than $800 million — and he’ll be working with the people in charge of his predecessor’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They kept all of Mayor Breed’s budget staff, including her budget director,” said Sean Elsbernd, Breed’s chief of staff. “And I think it would have been a disaster to try to bring in someone new this fiscal year. Hiring, budgeting analysts — just through the regular process ain’t easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may well change once the new mayor submits his first city budget to the Board of Supervisors. But for now, that continuity will save time and minimize disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Lurie will certainly put his own imprint on the city government he leads. He’ll do that by his appointments, staff, public comments and visibility, and simply responding to inevitable crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s an old expression in politics that “you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.” It suggests that running for office requires inspirational speeches and grand ideas that captivate voters, while actually running something requires less exciting qualities like practicality, compromise and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie when he announced his candidacy for Mayor of San Francisco at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates can make promises or policy plans — as Lurie did — without knowing the limitations they’ll face from pending litigation they don’t have knowledge of due to attorney/client privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Lurie said he wanted to increase the use of ankle monitors to keep tabs on people awaiting trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">drug-related charges\u003c/a>. “I mean, that’s, in concept, a wonderful idea,” Elsbernd said. “But there is a whole load of litigation about those right now that are significantly hampering Sheriff [Paul] Miyamoto, who’s responsible for that. The mayor is not. The sheriff is. And the judges of the Superior Court are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New mayors can make all the plans they want, but as Agnos often said, “When you’re mayor, you don’t choose the issues. The issues choose you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An obvious example: earthquakes or some other natural disaster that strikes unexpectedly. Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">transition chief\u003c/a>, Sara Fenske Bahat, said they’ve been in touch with the Department of Emergency Management for weeks “to make sure that the team going in is connected to that team before tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks at Manny’s, a restaurant and events space in San Francisco, on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat was working under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani when Michael Bloomberg took over. She says it’s important for change, which Lurie is promising, to be “in the spirit of the culture of this place, right? This is a place that embraces change. This is a place that embraces outsiders. That wants to innovate. This is a place that wants to be respected for the uniqueness of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Cretan, Mayor Breed’s press secretary, noted that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019956/how-daniel-lurie-will-balance-the-need-for-insider-knowledge-with-outsider-perspective-2\">push for change\u003c/a> should be balanced with continuity for the sake of the thousands of civil servants who will continue working with the city once Breed leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be pushes for new ideas,” Cretan said. “But the key thing is to make sure that the incoming administration understands all the things that are happening in the city … and so a lot of that [transition] work is making sure people are set up for that work to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan said a lot of the transition is making sure Lurie is “aware of what he will be facing and what his team will be facing. But I don’t think it’s our job to be like, ‘This is how you need to do your job.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In November, the Legislative Analyst’s Office had projected a $2 billion shortfall, which it described as leaving the budget “roughly balanced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projected surplus, fueled by higher-than-expected tax revenue, represents a likely turnaround from the budget shortfalls of the last two years, including the $27.6 billion deficit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992607/newsom-signs-california-budget-to-close-46-8-billion-deficit\">closed in the last state budget\u003c/a> passed in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at an event in Turlock, Newsom departed from past practice by sharing only highlights from his budget plan, leaving the full release of the spending plan until Friday. The January proposal signals the beginning of the annual state budget process at the Capitol. Newsom will release a revised proposal in May after most Californians file their taxes, and the budget will cover July 2025 through June 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s most significant new policy announcement was a proposal to allow the state to stash more money in its rainy day fund. Currently, the reserve is capped at 10% of the state’s expected tax revenue — a limit Newsom wants to double. He also proposed exempting the rainy day savings from the state’s limit on spending. Both changes would need approval from California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create the right political conditions to advance it,” Newsom said. “That’s going to take a Herculean effort, but we’ve been talking about it for long enough — it’s time to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00044-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom described the moves as a way to temper California’s notorious budget volatility. The state’s progressive tax system relies heavily on revenue from a small share of high-earners, whose incomes and tax liability can fluctuate with the stock market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007585/california-saw-a-huge-tax-windfall-this-summer-that-points-to-silicon-valley\">stock market surge\u003c/a>, driven by California-based chip maker Nvidia, has led to income and capital gains tax revenue exceeding the expectations of state budget officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the current fiscal picture is still a far cry from the record surpluses Newsom enjoyed in the years immediately after the pandemic. Newsom signaled his administration will focus on implementing existing initiatives, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989789/as-californias-transitional-kindergarten-enrollment-grows-parents-must-make-big-choices\">transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds\u003c/a> in the state, along with efforts to improve government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New spending initiatives announced so far are modest: a $100 million economic plan centered on programs to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018471/newsom-pitches-plan-help-californians-without-degrees-land-high-paying-jobs\">support workers without a college degree\u003c/a> in the job market and a $25 million set-aside for anticipated legal costs as the state gears up to challenge the Trump administration in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom proposed the litigation funding as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">a special legislative session\u003c/a> focused on the incoming administration, and the governor said Monday he remains confident the funds will be approved prior to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also walking into headwinds,” Newsom said of the incoming administration, describing a “radically different moment in U.S. history — world history, arguably — and as a consequence, we need to be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s led some to dismiss this move as merely symbolic. However, the region includes the eastern Gulf of Mexico, where oil companies are interested in expanding when an existing moratorium expires. And all together, the huge swathes of ocean set aside in this move — hypothetically forever — include more than a third of the offshore U.S. oil and gas that is likely economical to extract, according to government data and analysts at Clearview Energy Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry has objected to the moratorium. “American voters sent a clear message in support of domestic energy development, and yet the current administration is using its final days in office to cement a record of doing everything possible to restrict it,” American Petroleum Institute president Mike Sommers said in a statement. 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Of course, they believed him — he’s the only person they heard from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz’s announcement comes shortly after the San Francisco Democratic Party recently voted to adopt new guidelines for reporting and handling sexual misconduct cases, following multiple accusations of sexual assault and harassment within local Democratic chapters that advocates and survivors said largely went ignored until they came forward publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies preserve the preexisting option of reporting directly to a local chapter, which can still pursue its own investigation. The Latinx Democratic Club started its internal review process before the Democratic Party adopted the new guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But survivors who don’t feel comfortable or confident reporting directly to their local chapter can now also choose to go through the official Democratic Party. Those reports will go to an ombudsperson and an investigator. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no way of knowing there was an investigation and no avenue through which to participate in one,” the woman, who requested to remain anonymous due to concerns over safety and political retaliation, told KQED. “This is really absurd. Of course, they believed him — he’s the only person they heard from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz’s announcement comes shortly after the San Francisco Democratic Party recently voted to adopt new guidelines for reporting and handling sexual misconduct cases, following multiple accusations of sexual assault and harassment within local Democratic chapters that advocates and survivors said largely went ignored until they came forward publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies preserve the preexisting option of reporting directly to a local chapter, which can still pursue its own investigation. The Latinx Democratic Club started its internal review process before the Democratic Party adopted the new guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But survivors who don’t feel comfortable or confident reporting directly to their local chapter can now also choose to go through the official Democratic Party. Those reports will go to an ombudsperson and an investigator. An adjudication panel would decide potential remedies and consequences, ranging from restorative justice to admonishment or expulsion from the San Francisco Democratic Party. The policy also lays out an appeals process for the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of local chapters, as well as candidates seeking the party’s endorsement, will have to complete sexual harassment training and incorporate the policies into their chapters’ bylaws by May 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am incredibly exhausted, but will continue to work towards a community that will do right by survivors in their journeys to seek healing and justice,” Hajee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With the election and the holidays behind them, the California Legislature returns to Sacramento today to kick off a new session in earnest. It will be several more months before the political wrangling over the state budget and thousands of proposed bills truly ramps up, but priorities are emerging as lawmakers try to stake their claim on the hottest issues of the day. Here are some stories to watch at the Capitol in 2025:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tackling affordability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a disappointing election for Democrats, legislative leaders reemerged with a message aimed at easing voters’ anxieties about how expensive California is. Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire, a Healdsburg Democrat, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, both told CalMatters last month that their focus this session will be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/12/california-legislature-rivas-mcguire-newsom/\">advancing policies that lower the cost of living for working Californians\u003c/a>, including by building more housing, making energy cheaper and improving public infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only way forward is to acknowledge that we have to do better,” Rivas said. “It’s clear — we haven’t done enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their colleagues have responded so far with bills that would \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab6?_gl=1*itv6kb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">ease construction standards\u003c/a> for small apartment buildings and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab30?_gl=1*itv6kb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">increase the amount of ethanol\u003c/a> that can be blended with gasoline, an effort to reduce prices at the pump. Expect many more proposals as legislators finalize their agendas in the weeks ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats, who hold a three-quarters supermajority in both houses, face an arduous messaging war with the emboldened Republican minority, which flipped three seats in November. GOP lawmakers quickly introduced far-reaching measures — \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab23?_gl=1*87651r*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">ending gas and electricity taxes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb2?_gl=1*87651r*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">voiding low-carbon fuel standards\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb17?_gl=1*87651r*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">exempting tipped wages from taxation\u003c/a> — that will almost certainly go nowhere but stand to make Democrats’ efforts look less consequential by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would call it an invitation to the Democrats,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said in an interview. “In order to actually do something about affordability, they have to back away from the policies they’ve championed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Resistance 2.0\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the response from California politicians to Donald Trump’s victory in the November presidential election has been far more subdued than it was eight years ago, they are still gearing up for a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after Trump’s win, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special session\u003c/a> to set aside funding for the state to take his Republican administration to court. Democratic lawmakers plan to rush in the coming weeks to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261AB1\">appropriate $25 million\u003c/a> for legal resources before Trump takes office on Jan. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though some have warned against getting sidetracked by another showdown with the president, legislators are also already putting forward proposals to safeguard Californians against actions they anticipate Trump will take. These include bills to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab54?_gl=1*mwy5ql*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">ensure access to medication abortion\u003c/a>, make contraceptives \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab50?_gl=1*10jpkwb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">more readily available over the counter\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab45?_gl=1*10jpkwb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">protect the privacy of patients\u003c/a> getting abortions in California, as well as to further limit \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab15?_gl=1*1ks1761*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">collaboration by state prisons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb48?slug=CA_202520260SB48&_gl=1*1ks1761*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">school districts\u003c/a> with federal immigrant enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States of America is in the calm before the storm. The hurricane is about to hit,” McGuire told CalMatters last month. “And shame on us if we’re not battening down the hatches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even California shifted toward Trump in November: He \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/12/california-election-results-trump-vote-2024/\">gained vote share\u003c/a> in all but one county, albeit by only enough for him to reach 38% of the statewide vote. Newly elected Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a San Diego Republican, said in an interview that the GOP has an opportunity to capitalize on an overwhelming “appetite for change” among Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats are “dividing and distracting” the public with their fight against Trump instead of “getting things done,” DeMaio said, he plans to use his popular conservative podcast as a daily platform to ramp up public pressure on the Legislature to shift course. He has introduced a 10-bill package challenging liberal orthodoxy on \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab18?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">border security\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab25?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">voter identification requirements\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab21?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">tax increases\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab22?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">early prison releases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The political system is untethered from where the public is,” DeMaio said. “The only way politicians see the light is when they feel the heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget woes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fiscal advisers to the Legislature warned in November that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/california-budget-deficit-legislative-analyst/\">California’s finances are precarious\u003c/a>: roughly balanced for now but barreling toward increasing deficits in the years ahead. Fear of losing federal funding under Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to withhold disaster aid from the state, is adding another layer of uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even as legislative leaders endorsed a cautious approach to the upcoming state budget, Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/gavin-newsom-legislature-electric-vehicles/\">floated several new programs\u003c/a> with hefty price tags — from expanding the film and television production tax credit to reviving a rebate for electric vehicles. His full budget proposal is due by the end of this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have yet to meet to discuss their priorities, so it’s unclear how much they will be at odds with the governor as they work to pass a spending plan by the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, an Encino Democrat who leads the Assembly budget committee, said the Legislature will carefully vet Newsom’s proposals, but any new programs it approves will likely require spending cuts elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very clear-eyed about the fact that there’s potentially a lot of tough choices ahead,” Gabriel said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he expects the Legislature will lean more into its oversight role through the budget process this year to determine which programs are actually moving the needle and delivering results. “If they’re not working as intended, then they don’t deserve continued funding,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A white, middle-aged man in a suit and white shirt with no tie gestures to his right while speaking into a microphone outdoors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Larkspur, Marin County, on April 16, 2024. California could soon deploy generative artificial intelligence tools to help reduce traffic jams, make roads safer and provide tax guidance, among other things, under new agreements announced on May 9, 2024, as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to harness the power of new technologies for public services. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tilting at tech giants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California remains at the center of tech innovation — and is increasingly at the forefront of regulating it, too. That tension over how to rein in potential abuses of Silicon Valley without kneecapping an industry \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">vital to the state’s economy\u003c/a> has become inescapable at the Capitol, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still want to be a leader in AI. We don’t want China to surpass us,” Gallagher said. “The trick is really finding the right balance. I think there’s going to be a lot of discussion on this front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers introduced a gusher of AI legislation last year, though major tech companies managed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/09/california-artificial-intelligence-bill-veto/\">beat back the most ambitious proposal\u003c/a>, which would have required them to test their models for potential harms to society, by winning Newsom over to their side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect the clashes to intensify this session as legislators seek to weigh in on everything from \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab33?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">autonomous vehicles\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb11?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">false impersonation assisted by AI\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media use among young people is another charged debate. A bill to hold platforms \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">liable for causing harm to children\u003c/a> is back after dying last year amid fierce industry opposition. With the backing of Attorney General Rob Bonta, lawmakers may also consider \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab56?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">creating mental health warning labels\u003c/a> for social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Return of reparations\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The previous legislative session \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/08/california-reparations-bills-3/\">exploded into unexpected rancor\u003c/a> just before its conclusion last summer when key Black legislators tabled a pair of bills that would have established a new state agency to work on reparations for descendants of slaves, bitterly disappointing activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='california-legislature' label='More Legislature Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a dozen other reparations-related measures were signed into law, the disagreement about how far and how fast to push for a policy that does not enjoy broad public approval \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/09/california-reparations-whats-next/\">opened a schism in the movement\u003c/a> that could undermine its political momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have introduced a handful of follow-up bills this session, including to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab7?_gl=1*m7m0wc*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">establish admissions preferences\u003c/a> at California universities and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab57?_gl=1*m7m0wc*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">set aside money in a home purchase assistance program\u003c/a> for descendants of slaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Tina McKinnor, a Los Angeles Democrat, revived a proposal to provide compensation to people whose property was taken by the government through \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab62?_gl=1*2opvlq*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">racially motivated use of eminent domain\u003c/a>, a bill Newsom vetoed last year. She said reparations proponents must continue to take baby steps to build support for their ultimate goal of cash payments to descendants of slaves, which she expected would take five to 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As leaders, we have to do things sometimes that are unpopular,” McKinnor said in an interview. “I know last year, it ended in a bang. That’s not going to stop the Black Caucus from our plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the election and the holidays behind them, the California Legislature returns to Sacramento today to kick off a new session in earnest. It will be several more months before the political wrangling over the state budget and thousands of proposed bills truly ramps up, but priorities are emerging as lawmakers try to stake their claim on the hottest issues of the day. Here are some stories to watch at the Capitol in 2025:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tackling affordability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a disappointing election for Democrats, legislative leaders reemerged with a message aimed at easing voters’ anxieties about how expensive California is. Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire, a Healdsburg Democrat, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, both told CalMatters last month that their focus this session will be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/12/california-legislature-rivas-mcguire-newsom/\">advancing policies that lower the cost of living for working Californians\u003c/a>, including by building more housing, making energy cheaper and improving public infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only way forward is to acknowledge that we have to do better,” Rivas said. “It’s clear — we haven’t done enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their colleagues have responded so far with bills that would \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab6?_gl=1*itv6kb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">ease construction standards\u003c/a> for small apartment buildings and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab30?_gl=1*itv6kb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">increase the amount of ethanol\u003c/a> that can be blended with gasoline, an effort to reduce prices at the pump. Expect many more proposals as legislators finalize their agendas in the weeks ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats, who hold a three-quarters supermajority in both houses, face an arduous messaging war with the emboldened Republican minority, which flipped three seats in November. GOP lawmakers quickly introduced far-reaching measures — \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab23?_gl=1*87651r*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">ending gas and electricity taxes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb2?_gl=1*87651r*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">voiding low-carbon fuel standards\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb17?_gl=1*87651r*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">exempting tipped wages from taxation\u003c/a> — that will almost certainly go nowhere but stand to make Democrats’ efforts look less consequential by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would call it an invitation to the Democrats,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said in an interview. “In order to actually do something about affordability, they have to back away from the policies they’ve championed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Resistance 2.0\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the response from California politicians to Donald Trump’s victory in the November presidential election has been far more subdued than it was eight years ago, they are still gearing up for a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after Trump’s win, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special session\u003c/a> to set aside funding for the state to take his Republican administration to court. Democratic lawmakers plan to rush in the coming weeks to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261AB1\">appropriate $25 million\u003c/a> for legal resources before Trump takes office on Jan. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though some have warned against getting sidetracked by another showdown with the president, legislators are also already putting forward proposals to safeguard Californians against actions they anticipate Trump will take. These include bills to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab54?_gl=1*mwy5ql*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">ensure access to medication abortion\u003c/a>, make contraceptives \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab50?_gl=1*10jpkwb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">more readily available over the counter\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab45?_gl=1*10jpkwb*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">protect the privacy of patients\u003c/a> getting abortions in California, as well as to further limit \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab15?_gl=1*1ks1761*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">collaboration by state prisons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb48?slug=CA_202520260SB48&_gl=1*1ks1761*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">school districts\u003c/a> with federal immigrant enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States of America is in the calm before the storm. The hurricane is about to hit,” McGuire told CalMatters last month. “And shame on us if we’re not battening down the hatches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even California shifted toward Trump in November: He \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/12/california-election-results-trump-vote-2024/\">gained vote share\u003c/a> in all but one county, albeit by only enough for him to reach 38% of the statewide vote. Newly elected Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, a San Diego Republican, said in an interview that the GOP has an opportunity to capitalize on an overwhelming “appetite for change” among Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats are “dividing and distracting” the public with their fight against Trump instead of “getting things done,” DeMaio said, he plans to use his popular conservative podcast as a daily platform to ramp up public pressure on the Legislature to shift course. He has introduced a 10-bill package challenging liberal orthodoxy on \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab18?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">border security\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab25?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">voter identification requirements\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab21?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">tax increases\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab22?_gl=1*1xiywcm*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">early prison releases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The political system is untethered from where the public is,” DeMaio said. “The only way politicians see the light is when they feel the heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget woes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fiscal advisers to the Legislature warned in November that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/california-budget-deficit-legislative-analyst/\">California’s finances are precarious\u003c/a>: roughly balanced for now but barreling toward increasing deficits in the years ahead. Fear of losing federal funding under Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to withhold disaster aid from the state, is adding another layer of uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even as legislative leaders endorsed a cautious approach to the upcoming state budget, Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/gavin-newsom-legislature-electric-vehicles/\">floated several new programs\u003c/a> with hefty price tags — from expanding the film and television production tax credit to reviving a rebate for electric vehicles. His full budget proposal is due by the end of this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have yet to meet to discuss their priorities, so it’s unclear how much they will be at odds with the governor as they work to pass a spending plan by the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, an Encino Democrat who leads the Assembly budget committee, said the Legislature will carefully vet Newsom’s proposals, but any new programs it approves will likely require spending cuts elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very clear-eyed about the fact that there’s potentially a lot of tough choices ahead,” Gabriel said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he expects the Legislature will lean more into its oversight role through the budget process this year to determine which programs are actually moving the needle and delivering results. “If they’re not working as intended, then they don’t deserve continued funding,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A white, middle-aged man in a suit and white shirt with no tie gestures to his right while speaking into a microphone outdoors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24130599594139-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Larkspur, Marin County, on April 16, 2024. California could soon deploy generative artificial intelligence tools to help reduce traffic jams, make roads safer and provide tax guidance, among other things, under new agreements announced on May 9, 2024, as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to harness the power of new technologies for public services. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tilting at tech giants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California remains at the center of tech innovation — and is increasingly at the forefront of regulating it, too. That tension over how to rein in potential abuses of Silicon Valley without kneecapping an industry \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">vital to the state’s economy\u003c/a> has become inescapable at the Capitol, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still want to be a leader in AI. We don’t want China to surpass us,” Gallagher said. “The trick is really finding the right balance. I think there’s going to be a lot of discussion on this front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers introduced a gusher of AI legislation last year, though major tech companies managed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/09/california-artificial-intelligence-bill-veto/\">beat back the most ambitious proposal\u003c/a>, which would have required them to test their models for potential harms to society, by winning Newsom over to their side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect the clashes to intensify this session as legislators seek to weigh in on everything from \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab33?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">autonomous vehicles\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260sb11?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">false impersonation assisted by AI\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media use among young people is another charged debate. A bill to hold platforms \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">liable for causing harm to children\u003c/a> is back after dying last year amid fierce industry opposition. With the backing of Attorney General Rob Bonta, lawmakers may also consider \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202520260ab56?_gl=1*8mk32m*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMyNjEuNTkuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNjE4OTA2NC4zNy4xLjE3MzYxOTMxNDAuMC4wLjA.\">creating mental health warning labels\u003c/a> for social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Return of reparations\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The previous legislative session \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/08/california-reparations-bills-3/\">exploded into unexpected rancor\u003c/a> just before its conclusion last summer when key Black legislators tabled a pair of bills that would have established a new state agency to work on reparations for descendants of slaves, bitterly disappointing activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> fire stations shutter temporarily Monday, with potentially more to follow next month, firefighters are calling on the city to roll back the cost-saving closures, saying they could put Oaklanders’ lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stations in Grass Valley and Woodminster will close for more than six months beginning this week as the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">slashes spending across departments\u003c/a> to cure a nearly $130 million budget deficit. The fire station closures are the first of two phases that would shut down almost 30% of the Fire Department’s services, firefighter Chris Robinson said at a Monday press conference before the City Council’s first meeting of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of three fire stations is problematic, but the city administrator’s proposal to close four more stations next month would be catastrophic,” he said, surrounded by dozens of current and former first responders. “These cuts are a tragedy waiting to happen. The city administrator needs to reopen the closed stations and not move forward with additional closures. The amount of money it will save is not worth the potential cost in lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety cuts began to take effect in December, as Oakland faced a massive deficit created by years of overspending and the indefinite delay of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">sale of its 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial cuts got the go-ahead when the City Council approved a contingency plan in then-Mayor Sheng Thao’s July budget proposal, which relied on one-time funds from the sale of the Coliseum to prevent overspending. The contingency was triggered in September after the Coliseum’s buyers, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, missed payments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">originally scheduled\u003c/a> for September and November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Grass Valley Road in the East Oakland Hills. 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Four more fire stations could close as soon as early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the public safety cuts are not subject to council approval, it’s possible that the new council will look to work with the budget office to prevent further cuts and restore services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three new council members were sworn into office Monday, including Zac Unger, who had served as the leader of the fire union until he was inaugurated. 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