Michael Bernick, Forbes, June 15, 2022 (The worker-business coalition that toppled Chesa Boudin last week is a model for other communities. It succeeded in taking action against a failed ideology, and in bringing together a multi-racial working class and middle class constituency.) A report issued last Friday showed office occupancy in San Francisco’s core business district…

Robert Mandelbaum, Hotel Management, May 26, 2022 According to CBRE’s March 2022 Hotel Horizons forecasts, U.S. major market revenue per available room will increase a very strong 32.8 percent during 2022. Among CBRE’s 65 tracked markets, the 25 largest markets will see even greater growth (33.7 percent). Both of these projections are nearly double the national…

California’s primary election is scheduled for June 7, 2022. Voters in the Bay Area will decide on local races, measures and primaries for statewide offices. Every registered voter will receive a ballot in the mail, which county election officials will begin to send out by May 9 — the same day that early voting sites…

Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D – Orange County), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, with joint author, Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), Chair of the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, announced that their Senate Bill 1338, establishing CARE Courts in California, passed the Senate Floor this afternoon. CARE Courts are a new policy…

Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2022 What San Francisco officials described as a historic staffing shortage at the city’s Police Department prompted Mayor London Breed to withdraw her request for an extra $7.9 million to fund police overtime. With so few officers on duty, the city could instead pay for the overtime needs…