By Shane Goldmacher, Heather Knight and Laurel Rosenhall
Oct. 18, 2025
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to face the most serious primary challenge of her career if she runs for re-election, as a fellow San Francisco Democrat, State Senator Scott Wiener, is preparing to enter the race later this month, according to two people briefed on his plans.
BY DAN WALTERS
OCTOBER 16, 2025
Eight years ago, as he began his campaign for governor, Gavin Newsom described fixing the state’s chronic housing shortage as a moral imperative.
“This is a question of who we are,” Newsom wrote in 2017. “Housing is a fundamental human need — let’s not forget the human face behind the dire statistics.
By TIM REDMOND
OCTOBER 13, 2025
The Chron and the Examiner both have big stories today about the anger over Mayor Daniel Lurie’s plan to increase housing density on the West Side of town. People are angry; Lurie is facing hostile crowds at town halls, and the Ex ran a piece saying that the city’s future is at stake:
What’s at stake is not just zoning, but the future of San Francisco’s historic neighborhoods, parks, public vistas and architecture — the international character that draws millions of visitors.
By Lori Brooke and John Crabtree
October 5, 2025
Housing affordability is a real and urgent challenge for many San Francisco residents. Instead of addressing the root causes of a lack of housing affordability San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener, backed by lobbying group CA YIMBY and flush with real estate and tech cash, has promoted a false narrative — that deregulation, demolition, and luxury development will somehow deliver “housing for all.”
by Riley Cooke
October 2, 2025
Longtime members of the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club are raising alarms about what they call a hostile takeover of their organization by a pro-housing coalition. The internal divide in the chapter — and the organization as a whole — stems from a tension between the Sierra Club’s historic environmental and conservation policies and a new wave of climate activists who are struggling to find the space to advocate for denser housing and public transportation.
by Diana Diamond
September 25, 2025
Two days after Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California legislature placed Prop 50, a redistricting measure, on the Nov.4 special election ballot, I received three 8 x 11 glossy campaign mailings, urging me to “Say No” to “Unconstitutional Gerrymandering.” One flier declared, “California families struggle with soaring costs, and the states sink deeper into deficit, Governor Newsom and the legislature are scheming to take redistricting power away from our Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.”