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Latest line: A good week for anti-tax groups, bad one for 49ers
Anti-tax groups New poll shows support dropping below 50% for Prop 15, the measure backed by Democratic leaders and unions, and opposed by Republicans and business groups, that would allow commercial...
View ArticleThey said it: A nasty place to look for virus
“Every time we do this, it’s a little bit of a crapshoot, pun intended.” — Tim Pine, an environmental protection specialist at the UC Berkeley, on efforts to survey sewer water samples for coronavirus...
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Latest line: A good week for Biden, bad one for Silicon Valley Organization
Joe Biden Bernie Sanders may have won California’s Democratic primary in March. But new polls show Biden now leading President Trump 65% to 29% statewide, and if that margin holds, it will be the...
View ArticleThey said it: Presidential contest too close for comfort
“What it says is the divide isn’t ending soon. We’re going to have to figure out how to reduce the polarization. I wish I knew how.” — Rebecca Prozan of San Francisco, who ran Sen. Kamala Harris’ first...
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Latest line: Kamala Harris’ stock is rising, unions diving
Kamala Harris Oakland native, former San Francisco DA, state Attorney General and first-term U.S. senator is poised to become the highest-ranking woman in American political history, vice president,...
View ArticleThey said it: Thanksgiving goes viral
“She will be outside wrapped in blankets 10 feet from where I am.” — Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody, on how she plans to safely celebrate Thanksgiving with her mother who is in her 80s...
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Latest line: A good week for Prop 15 opponents, bad one for former Google exec
California Business Roundtable Sacramento group of senior executives from large companies wins big after its PAC raises $31 million to kill Prop 15, a property tax hike on large commercial properties,...
View ArticleThey said it: Rules for thee, not for me
“I do tire of being lectured to by science-challenged bureaucrats, putting up with the arrogance of our political establishment, who assume that they are so elevated in stature that the rules simply...
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Latest line: A good week for Gascon, bad one for Newsom
George Gascon Former San Francisco district attorney moves back to L.A. and wins narrow race for L.A. district attorney, promising leftward reforms including not seeking the death penalty or trying...
View ArticleThey said it: A lonelier Thanksgiving
“It’s a combination of scary and sad and a little bit lonely.” — Kaye Luck, of San Jose, on forgoing her family’s tradition of spending Thanksgiving with friends this year due to the worsening...
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Latest line: Janet Yellen first woman to head Treasury Department
Janet Yellen The UC Berkeley professor emeritus (and one-time head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve) is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Treasury Department and the first woman to be...
View ArticleThey said it: Football in the pandemic
“Coaches, managers and owners used to want to protect their players from harm.” — Jeff Smith, Santa Clara County Executive, after the San Francisco 49ers announced they were leaving for Arizona so they...
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Latest line: A good week for Padilla, bad one for Breed
Alex Padilla California’s secretary of state emerges as front-runner in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s choices to fill the Senate seat of VP-elect Kamala Harris, and wins the endorsement of Sen. Dianne...
View ArticleThey said it: Stampeded by the surge
“It’s like you’re trying to outrun the bulls in Spain. You’re looking over your shoulder and they keep getting closer and closer and all of a sudden you’re being stampeded.” — Liz Thurstone, a...
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Latest line: A good week for Becerra, bad one for Feinstein
Xavier Becerra California’s attorney general, son of working class parents and first in his family to go to college (Stanford) is nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be secretary of Health and...
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Latest line: A good week for Lisa Schmidt, bad one for Mary Nichols
Lisa Schmidt Proving that every vote does indeed matter, energy efficiency engineer wins election for a seat on the Los Altos Hills City Council by one vote, 2,495 to 2,494, over Facebook engineer Jay...
View ArticleThey said it: Don’t throw mask away yet
“Just because you got the vaccine doesn’t mean you can party like it’s 1999.” — Dr. Desi Kotis, chief pharmacy executive at the University of California San Francisco, on whether the arrival of the...
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Latest line: A good week for Eddie Garcia, bad one for California
Eddie Garcia After being retired barely a week, the former San Jose police chief quickly gets back in the saddle — and makes history — by being selected Dallas’ first Latino police chief....
View ArticleThey said it: A mother’s pain
“I know that Michaela is not suffering now. … But it’s been really hard to hear this news. It’s been really hard to hold onto everything that I have built up over the years.” — Sharon Murch, Michaela...
View ArticleThey said it: A park for everyone to enjoy
“It’s no surprise they’d try to keep it to themselves. It’s beautiful.” — San Francisco residents Elise and Garrett Schado, who hiked the 1,400-acre Foothills Park that was once exclusive to Palo Alto...
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