Mission Local

Four years ago, Matt Dorsey had to fight for his seat. In a six-month brawl between Dorsey, who had been appointed District 6 supervisor when Matt Haney was elected to state office, and Honey Mahogany — Haney’s chief of staff and preferred successor — Dorsey came out on top: He won by a 53-47 tilt. This year, it will likely be a far greater margin. The moderate District 6 supervisor is heading toward November without a competitive challenger.

El Tecolote, the longest-running bilingual newspaper in California, has lost the majority of its staff over the past six months, including its editor-in-chief, Erika Carlos, who resigned and alleged in an Aug. 16 LinkedIn post a lack of “organizational support.” In all, seven people have left the paper since March, including reporter Yesica Prado, whose position was eliminated, and longtime distribution manager who Johny García, who was fired.

Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled today that for the next week, the federal government may not continue its plans to build an immigration center near Gilroy, in unincorporated Santa Clara County. The pause is temporary. Lee will put out another ruling within seven days, after taking some time to review the evidence, she said in court on Tuesday.

The San Francisco district attorney’s office is looking to change the California Constitution, DA Brooke Jenkins said on Tuesday morning, after a recent state Supreme Court decision made it harder for her office to hold people charged with low-level offenses in jail before trial.

District 6 includes SoMa, Mission Bay, Treasure Island and Yerba Buena. Its current supervisor, Matt Dorsey, was appointed by Mayor London Breed on May 9, 2022, to replace outgoing District 6 supervisor Matt Haney, who was elected to the state assembly. Dorsey is up for re-election this November against one challenger, Alex Behrend. We have decided not to cover Behrend, given our guidelines here.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

A woman is in critical condition after being bitten by a dog in the Tenderloin on Tuesday morning. The unidentified woman was bitten around 9:20 a.m., according to the San Francisco Fire Department. Fire department paramedics treated the woman’s “serious injuries” on scene and transported her to a local trauma center.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

In January 2021, Gerald Kowalczyk stole a $7 cheeseburger from a Burlingame Five Guys, setting off a chain of events that seems to have led to San Francisco’s lowest jail count in years. On Saturday, Sept. 5, there were 978 people in the city’s jails, the lowest count since August 2023 and by far the lowest since Mayor Daniel Lurie took office.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.