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Supervisor Catherine Stefani: I think voters just want to see a San Francisco that works for them. And they want to feel safe.”
Stefani, who currently represents a parcel of northern San Francisco, including the Marina and Pacific Heights, has routinely used her place as a mom in The City as a driving force for what has steered her political agenda. In a conversation with The Examiner shortly after the election, Stefani reminisced about her victory and detailed her priorities in the lead-up to November and if she’s elected to the state legislature.
“The AAPI community cares about the same things I do,” she said. “They care about making sure their kids are safe in schools and safe in the city where they live. Those are issues that, as a mother, I care deeply about, not just for my kids, but their kids. They want their kids to come home from college and be able to afford a place to live in San Francisco. I want that for my kids. I want it for their kids.
Stefani pointed out that she marched with the community following the killing of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai man who, in 2021, was violently shoved to the ground in Anza Vista — which would be in Stefani’s district — and Lee is backed by fellow progressives Ting — whom Lee said has done as much as anybody in the Assembly to oppose anti-Asian hate — former board president Norman Yee, the Rose Pak Democratic Club and Connie Chan. Chan is the only active Chinese American supervisor in The City, though her seat is being
“Eight months is a lifetime in politics,” he said. “A lot can happen. I’m pretty confident that we’re going to have the support we need to win the campaign.” Every February and March, thousands of Giants fans congregate in Scottsdale, Ariz., to create an orange-and-black oasis in the desert. Spring training — Major League Baseball’s annual preseason training camps and exhibition-game season in Arizona and Florida — has become a go-to destination for baseball lovers and families because of the picturesque settings, festive environments and unique intimacy fans can have with their favorite players.
“Old Town Scottsdale knows its audience quite well,” sports radio host and former Giants beat writer Kerry Crowley told The Examiner. “They are a Giants place not just during spring training, but for a lot of other portions of the year.” At the peak of spring training, the restaurant is overflowing with Giants fans. Uzra Vo, events manager at RnR, guessed that between 60% to 70% of the restaurant’s March customers are either Giants fans, players or staff.RnR recently hired a new head chef who revamped the menu with new selections such as roasted salmon, steak frites and chicken paillard in a lemon-butter sauce, in addition to its traditional hot dogs, burgers and chicken wings.
In Scottsdale, he highlighted a karaoke bar named Grape Vine or Boondocks Bar, which he called the best place to watch the NCAA basketball tournaments that coincide with spring training.Fans — some with South Korean flags — vie for autographs from San Francisco Giants Jung Hoo Lee and David Villar before a spring training baseball game earlier this month.
On game days at Scottsdale Stadium, the team reserves a designated autograph area outside the players’ clubhouse, open from 9 to 11 a.m. and 30 minutes after first pitch. The front of the area is reserved for children 14 and under. “Everybody’s excited to be getting back to baseball, and you can feel it,” Grauf said. “It’s a great environment out there. What we strive for is approachable, accessible, and making sure that everybody can just come out and have a very relaxed, good time to kick off the season. Our players do a great job of conveying that as well.
City staff had named Phoenix-based Allied Waste Services of North America the top scorer after a competitive bidding process in January 2023 and then brought a contract to the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee for approval on Feb. 28.
“We trust that the responder has presented a thoughtful price proposal that will enable them to faithfully perform the contract,” the statement read. The contract that city staff recommended for approval was to begin April 1, with Recology’s contract ending June 30. Allied was to collect garbage, recycling and compostables from city facilities, such as office buildings, libraries and parks.
Among other things, Boyd said the city had not adequately considered potential harms from Allied sending additional trucks to and from their base in Half Moon Bay and to Santa Clara County, and that The City could lose union jobs in San Francisco because Allied was planning to move recycling operations to a South Bay facility that would use nonunion sorters. Two representatives of the Teamsters Union also told of labor conflicts involving Republic in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
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