San Francisco, CA
Meet San Francisco’s most powerful people in 2022
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios
San Francisco is the epicenter of Massive Tech — so it is solely proper that our metro has a number of highly effective individuals who name it dwelling.
As 2022 involves a detailed, we needed to mirror on who’s made the largest distinction in our metropolis this yr.
The way it works: We mirrored on 2022’s headlines, thought-about what’s coming within the yr forward, and polled our most plugged-in readers and sources to find out who has formed SF.
- The unscientific checklist is produced completely by the Axios Native editorial group and isn’t influenced by promoting in any means.
- Individuals who made the ability checklist weren’t notified of their choice till publication.
London Breed
Mayor London Breed was thrust into the highlight in December 2017 following the sudden passing of then-Mayor Ed Lee.
- Breed is the town’s first Black feminine mayor.
- Her mayorship has centered on public security, homelessness and housing. Through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Breed was lauded for her early and aggressive efforts to include the virus’ unfold in San Francisco.
- Sure, however: Breed’s tenure has not been with out controversy. In September, for instance, the Coalition on Homelessness filed a lawsuit alleging Breed ordered metropolis employees to relocate homeless individuals, violating the town’s personal insurance policies.
Largest transfer of 2022: Breed went 83% within the profitable elections of her 2022 appointees, together with District Legal professional Brooke Jenkins and two college board members.
- Her outsized affect on this yr’s midterm election helped cement San Francisco as a still-liberal metropolis that skews extra average.
What we’re watching: We’re curious to see if theories about Breed eager to run for a seat within the U.S. Senate or Congress in 2024 maintain any water.
Recall teams
Numerous individuals and teams contributed to the high-profile recall elections of three college board members and the district lawyer.
Largest transfer of 2022: Main the recall efforts of 4 elected officers in San Francisco.
What we’re watching: If we are able to go at the least one yr with out one other recall election.
Manny Yekutiel
Since 2018, Manny Yukutiel has hosted common civic discussions at his namesake cafe and group area Manny’s within the Mission, drawing massive names like Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), reporter Kara Swisher and Mayor Breed.
- Yukutiel can be one among seven board members for the San Francisco Municipal Transit Company, which lately voted to make the pandemic-era Gradual Streets program everlasting.
Largest transfer of 2022: He had an concept this yr that lighting up Valencia Avenue would deliver “power and vitality” to the neighborhood, which, like different industrial corridors within the metropolis, wanted a lift after the peak of the pandemic.
- With assist from main donors like Zynga founder Mark Pincus, he made it occur. String lights now illuminate over a dozen different corridors throughout San Francisco due to Yukutiel.
What we’re watching: Will he double down on bringing residents along with occasions just like the weeklong All Out SF celebration he put collectively this fall, or will he give attention to climbing the town’s political ladder?
Vincent Yuen
Vincent Yuen desires to maintain San Francisco clear and empower others to handle their neighborhood trash troubles.
- Since beginning Refuse Refuse SF final yr, Yuen’s volunteer group has organized over 700 cleanups and picked up greater than 175,000 gallons of rubbish.
Largest transfer of 2022: This summer season, on the longest day of the yr, Yuen launched into a sunup-to-sundown trash pickup that spanned all the 7.2 miles of Mission Avenue — from the sting of Daly Metropolis to The Embarcadero.
- Yuen and the volunteers who joined him stuffed 118 rubbish baggage that day, fittingly dubbed: “On a Mission on Mission.”
What we’re watching: Yuen insists that in areas the place he recurrently hosts cleanups, litter has dissipated over time. If that is the case, can Refuse Refuse and its volunteer community of over 6,000 residents really begin to make a dent in our metropolis’s trash drawback?
Honey Mahogany
San Francisco Democratic Committee chair Honey Mahogany is a longtime activist, social employee and staple in SF’s LGBTQ group.
Largest transfer of 2022: She ran a historic marketing campaign for District 6 supervisor, placing up a strong battle towards mayor-appointed incumbent Matt Dorsey in an try and grow to be the first-ever transgender supervisor in SF.
What we’re watching: Mahogany mentioned she’s “not going anyplace” and appears ahead to working with Dorsey to construct housing, cease the fentanyl disaster and assist small companies.
Chris Larsen
Chris Larsen is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur, beginning E-Loans within the Nineties and extra lately, the crypto firm Ripple.
- The billionaire has funded a community of personal safety cameras all through the town over the past decade that he says is supposed to discourage crime.
Largest transfer of 2022: Larsen was the biggest donor this yr to Develop SF, a rising political motion committee that counted a number of victories in November. He additionally gave $1 million to the SFPD to spice up morale throughout the ranks.
What we’re watching: It is going to be attention-grabbing to see the place Larsen deploys his money subsequent in San Francisco, particularly since he would not draw back from controversial undertakings, like his digital camera community.
- And, he would not essentially comply with the conference of different high-powered tech execs, as seen in his backing of former District Legal professional Chesa Boudin throughout this yr’s recall, regardless of Develop SF’s assist of the recall.
Pickleball group
SF’s pickleball group represents a melting pot of individuals from all walks of life, generations, races and genders. The factor all of them have in widespread is their love of the game that mashes up tennis, badminton and ping-pong.
Largest transfer of 2022: Going toe-to-toe towards the tennis group for extra pickleball courts, arguing there are underutilized courts that may very well be transformed.
What we’re watching: Whether or not the pickleball group can persuade SF’s Recreation and Park Division to provide them extra courts, and whether or not the division decides to switch some tennis courts in Stern Grove to satisfy demand.
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The final home game of the 2024 Dolphins season is set for a late afternoon kickoff this Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. Both teams suffered narrow losses in Week 15, dropping their records to 6-8 and to the brink of elimination from the playoff contention. Whichever team emerges from this game victorious will have two more games to potentially win, and with a little help, could sneak their way into the postseason.
First things first, a reunion of teacher and pupil. Dolphins Head Coach Mike McDaniel worked with 49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan from 2006-2008, and then again from 2011-2021, culminating as the offensive coordinator of the 2021 Niners, who appeared in the NFC Championship Game that season.
“(In Houston), Gary Kubiak hired me independently of Kyle Shanahan,” McDaniel reflected. “He thought that we would work well together and be able to complement each other, so he threw me in the receiver room and we started working. (Shanahan) put high expectations on me and held me very accountable and I’m very grateful to him for that and I wouldn’t be here today without him.”
McDaniel peeled off to the east coast in 2022 where he constructed one of the game’s most dangerous offenses in Miami. The two teams met that season in what was the first game action for rookie quarterback Brock Purdy. The Niners would win that game by six points, proceeding to continue what would be a 12-game winning streak before falling short in the NFC Championship Game to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Just two years later, the Dolphins and Niners will reignite the cross-conference rivalry that began with Super Bowl XIX. A few critical plays in narrow losses going the wrong direction coupled with injury troubles have both of these talented rosters fighting to qualify for the postseason once again.
Those injuries could play a factor in this contest as well. It was reported Thursday that San Francisco running back Isaac Guerendo will miss Sunday’s game. With Christian McCaffery, Elijah Mitchell and Jordan Mason already on injured reserve, the Niners will turn to their fifth different starting running back this season in presumably Patrick Taylor.
If the Dolphins can slow the Niners run game and create third-and-long situations, just like last week in Houston, it could be another low-scoring output from the opposition.
The Dolphins offense knows it will have to play a cleaner game than the four turnover performance against the Texans.
“Whether it was the best game you had, whether it was the worst game you had; you’ve got to learn how to move on from that because the next team doesn’t care whether you won or not,” quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said. “They’re focused on how they can stop you. We’re focused on how we can get points on the board, focused on things that we can get better on.”
Make sure to check out the Injury Report and the team’s official social media accounts 90 minutes before kickoff to see who is active for the game.
Watch the game live on Sunday, December 22 at 4:25 p.m. ET on CBS, and listen on the Dolphins Radio Network and view the Game Center for the latest coverage.
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The market is spooked by an inflation-concerned Fed not smashing the pedal down to slash rates and appease bullish investors.
The vibe is not lost on San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly, seen often as a policy dove who’s a voting member on the FOMC this year.
“Well, it was a close call, frankly, and it took a lot of deliberation as it often does with myself and my team, and then also with the FOMC participants. Ultimately, I decided that it was appropriate to reduce [interest rates] 25 basis points — that will be 100 basis points of recalibration. And I see that as right-sizing the policy rate level to the economy,” Daly said on Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid podcast (video above).
Added Daly, “So I see the recalibration period now as completed. We now are back to the time we can make our decisions more slowly. Data-dependent, using the data to affect the incoming forecast and, you know, determine how many rate cuts we’ll ultimately do next year. We’ll have to be agile and data-dependent.”
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates by 25 basis points to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. It marked the Fed’s third straight rate cut of 2024, which began with a blast — a 50 basis point reduction on Sept. 18.
Daly voted for the reduction in interest rates. The lone dissenting vote — a rarity under the Jerome Powell-led Federal Reserve — was newly appointed Cleveland Fed president Beth Hammack.
Hammack preferred not to cut interest rates.
“I mean, we might get really positive inflation news and we’ll react to that if we do. But I do think that we want to make sure we finish the job,” said Daly, who noted getting inflation to 2% helps build trust and credibility for the Fed.
“So we are resolute to get that job done and that will mean restricted policy through the year [in 2025] in all likelihood.”
But what spooked a market that has been bidding up Big Tech stocks such as Apple (AAPL) and Meta (META) with reckless abandon in December was the Fed not committing to aggressive rate cutting in 2025.
The consensus among Fed officials is now for two rate cuts next year, down from the four forecast in September. The outlook for inflation is further clouded by potential moves by the incoming Trump administration, such as possible tariffs on China.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average promptly finished Wednesday’s session down more than 1,100 points. Stocks stabilized Thursday and Friday, with the latter supported by a slower increase than expected on the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index.
A coffee shop in San Francisco’s Mission Bay hasn’t even opened yet, but has dealt with at least two break-ins over a 24-hour span.
The owners though say it’s not going to deter them from opening their business and hopes their plan will help drive some of the crime away.
Owners of Silicon Valley Coffee got a taste of how businesses are struggling with crime in San Francisco. On Sunday, Matt Baker and Vance Bjorn came in to work on their new store but ended up finding two people on their property with needles scattered everywhere.
The owners called police, officers talked to the suspects, but didn’t make any arrests.
“Little disappointed, little shaken up,” Baker told CBS News Bay Area. “We went home and came back the next morning just to find that we were robbed and everything we had back there was gone. Including our, ironically enough, our brand new security system.”
The incident might have scared off other business owners but not these two.
“We want to work with the community, with the local representation and work with them to find solutions so that other businesses don’t have to go through this,” he said. “We’re putting a lot on the line out here to redo this space and that was a big setback for us.”
When Baker and Bjorn say they’re putting a lot on the line, they mean it. They are pouring in their money to open up this location on 4th Street, knowing that they will have to close when developers decide to break ground on a towering complex with about a thousand rental units. This maybe a temporary site for Silicon Valley Coffee but it’s a project the owners couldn’t say no to.
“This is an incredible opportunity,” said Baker. “It’s not every day an entire coffee shop, a restaurant, a giant patio in a prime location just lands in your feet and they ask you, can you help to make it better.”
So not only are they committed to seeing their business grow, they’re hoping their business will revitalize the area.
“We really think that the best way to solve these issues is by making this corner vibrant again,” Bjorn said to CBS News Bay Area.
The old site of the Creamery is not the only part getting a facelift. These signs of stores closing will come down, the area will be cleaned up and lights will be put up to make this corner of 4th and Townsend more inviting. Baker and Bjorn are determined to make a difference, one cup at a time.
“Coffee is about community,” said Bjorn. “Historically coffee shops have brought people together and this neighborhood needs to be brought together.”
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