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Wiener, Chan advance in race for Pelosi's seat

Pelosi's late endorsement appears to have helped lift Chan into November's matchup against Wiener.

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State Sen. <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Scott Wiener" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/10/22/scott-wiener-pelosi-congress-run" data-vars-content-id="c1e003db-82a8-498d-b7ed-1119e61a053e" data-vars-headline="Wiener, Chan advance in race for Pelosi&#x27;s seat" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/10/22/scott-wiener-pelosi-congress-run" target="_self">Scott Wiener</a> and Supervisor Connie Chan advanced Tuesday to November&#x27;s election to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi in one of San Francisco&#x27;s <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="most closely watched" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/01/08/san-francisco-pelosi-successor-congress-race-2026-district-11" data-vars-content-id="c1e003db-82a8-498d-b7ed-1119e61a053e" data-vars-headline="Wiener, Chan advance in race for Pelosi&#x27;s seat" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/01/08/san-francisco-pelosi-successor-congress-race-2026-district-11" target="_self">most closely watched</a> Democratic contests.By the numbers: Wiener secured a runoff spot with about 41% of the vote, with Chan securing about 29%, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="per the AP" data-vars-click-url="https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/california-primary-results-us-house/#11" data-vars-content-id="c1e003db-82a8-498d-b7ed-1119e61a053e" data-vars-headline="Wiener, Chan advance in race for Pelosi&#x27;s seat" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/california-primary-results-us-house/#11" target="_blank">per the AP</a>.

Test them smarts with the SF Friday news quiz

We pulled this one out the oven just for you.

It was quite a busy news week — time to see how well you retained all that local information intake. <ul><li>Dive in and get your quiz on.</li></ul>

San Francisco voters give Lurie an election-night boost

Results are in for local supervisor races and ballot measures.

Voters delivered Mayor Daniel Lurie one of his biggest political victories since taking office Tuesday, backing supervisors and ballot measures aligned with his vision for City Hall.Why it matters: The <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="early results" data-vars-click-url="https://www.sfelections.org/results/20260602w/index.html" data-vars-content-id="136c0bab-b064-4cfe-bb7c-ef386fc33de5" data-vars-headline="San Francisco voters give Lurie an election-night boost" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.sfelections.org/results/20260602w/index.html" target="_blank">early results</a> and races <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="called by the Chronicle" data-vars-click-url="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/california-primary-election-results/san-francisco/" data-vars-content-id="136c0bab-b064-4cfe-bb7c-ef386fc33de5" data-vars-headline="San Francisco voters give Lurie an election-night boost" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/california-primary-election-results/san-francisco/" target="_blank">called by the Chronicle</a> suggest voters remain largely supportive of Lurie&#x27;s effort to reform city government and reshape it around public safety.

What millions couldn't buy in California's two biggest races

Candidates with deep pockets struggled to overcome established ties and trusted political brands.

Politics

Tuesday&#x27;s <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="primary results" data-vars-click-url="https://www.sfelections.org/results/20260602w/index.html" data-vars-content-id="cefe3f7d-424f-4b7b-9b0d-4c45edf11a6c" data-vars-headline="What millions couldn&#x27;t buy in California&#x27;s two biggest races" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.sfelections.org/results/20260602w/index.html" target="_blank">primary results</a> complicated a narrative in California politics that <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="wealthy candidates" data-vars-click-url="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/tech-billionaires-california-elections" data-vars-content-id="cefe3f7d-424f-4b7b-9b0d-4c45edf11a6c" data-vars-headline="What millions couldn&#x27;t buy in California&#x27;s two biggest races" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/tech-billionaires-california-elections" target="_blank">wealthy candidates</a> can spend their way to the top of the ballot.The big picture: The setback for two of the cycle&#x27;s biggest self-funders — billionaire <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Tom Steyer" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/tom-steyer-2026-race-california-governor" data-vars-content-id="cefe3f7d-424f-4b7b-9b0d-4c45edf11a6c" data-vars-headline="What millions couldn&#x27;t buy in California&#x27;s two biggest races" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/tom-steyer-2026-race-california-governor" target="_self">Tom Steyer</a> and former congressional aide <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Saikat Chakrabarti" data-vars-click-url="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/02/san-francisco-democratic-primary-pelosi-succession-00946143" data-vars-content-id="cefe3f7d-424f-4b7b-9b0d-4c45edf11a6c" data-vars-headline="What millions couldn&#x27;t buy in California&#x27;s two biggest races" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/02/san-francisco-democratic-primary-pelosi-succession-00946143" target="_blank">Saikat Chakrabarti</a> — suggests political office can&#x27;t easily be bought, experts tell Axios.

Inside San Francisco's off-leash dog culture war

San Franciscans have found a new thing to fight about.

Culture

What started as one San Francisco resident&#x27;s frustration with off-leash dogs has evolved into <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="a site" data-vars-click-url="https://sfdogtracker.com/" data-vars-content-id="3ed38bc5-1377-4cd8-8877-7eff460c5e64" data-vars-headline="Inside San Francisco&#x27;s off-leash dog culture war" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://sfdogtracker.com/" target="_blank">a site</a> for reporting such sightings and a heated online fight over leash etiquette and public space.State of play: The SF Dogtracker site is linked on laminated signs that its creator, who goes by the alias Sean Layne, has hung near parks across the city.<ul><li>Layne told Axios he launched it in February to force city officials to take leash enforcement more seriously amid rising dog bite incidents and a <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="lax dog culture" data-vars-click-url="https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1mj9x5v/epidemic_of_entitlement_has_sf_dog_culture_gone/" data-vars-content-id="3ed38bc5-1377-4cd8-8877-7eff460c5e64" data-vars-headline="Inside San Francisco&#x27;s off-leash dog culture war" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1mj9x5v/epidemic_of_entitlement_has_sf_dog_culture_gone/" target="_blank">lax dog culture</a> that encourages <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="rule-breaking behavior" data-vars-click-url="https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-dog-owners-breaking-law-restaurants-20381936.php" data-vars-content-id="3ed38bc5-1377-4cd8-8877-7eff460c5e64" data-vars-headline="Inside San Francisco&#x27;s off-leash dog culture war" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-dog-owners-breaking-law-restaurants-20381936.php" target="_blank">rule-breaking behavior</a>.</li></ul>

We visited San Francisco's AI-run store so you don't have to

At Andon Market in the Marina, an AI named Luna runs pricing, hiring and sales.

Step inside <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Andon Market" data-vars-click-url="https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch" data-vars-content-id="8ade8a4f-d35d-4666-97f3-9f82277f1ada" data-vars-headline="We visited San Francisco&#x27;s AI-run store so you don&#x27;t have to" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch" target="_blank">Andon Market</a> in the Marina and it looks like any other boutique with mediocre home decor. Look closer and the boss running the store isn&#x27;t in the room.The big picture: This Anthropic-backed, first-of-its-kind retail experiment is part store and part social experiment, designed to test whether an AI model can run a business.

San Francisco drivers respond: To tow or not to tow?

Many locals say they tow immediately, while others wait before escalating.

Neighborhoods

Few parking missteps trigger backlash in San Francisco faster than a car blocking someone&#x27;s driveway.We asked readers to weigh in: When someone&#x27;s blocking your driveway, do you tow or give the driver a chance to move? And street parkers, what&#x27;s fair game?<ul><li>Here&#x27;s what you said.</li></ul>

How to keep your dog safe during coyote pupping season

Pupping season brings more sightings and defensive behavior.

Environment

It&#x27;s peak pupping season in San Francisco, which means more visible and territorial coyotes guarding their baby-filled dens.Why it matters: Pupping season can lead to more sightings — especially in and around parks — and tense encounters with dogs, which coyotes see as potential threats.

Driver sentenced in West Portal crash that killed family of four

A judge issued probation and temporarily revoked the 80-year-old driver's license.

The driver responsible for killing a <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="family of four" data-vars-click-url="https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/18/crowd-mourns-family-members-killed-west-portal-crash/" data-vars-content-id="8f089736-1e74-4422-83bc-ad43a856cb9c" data-vars-headline="Driver sentenced in West Portal crash that killed family of four" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/18/crowd-mourns-family-members-killed-west-portal-crash/" target="_blank">family of four</a> at a bus stop in West Portal two years ago was sentenced Friday — closing a case that left a neighborhood and family shattered.State of play: 80-year-old driver Mary Fong Lau, who pleaded no contest to four counts of felony vehicular manslaughter, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="was sentenced" data-vars-click-url="https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/20/mary-lau-sentenced-probation-west-portal-crash/" data-vars-content-id="8f089736-1e74-4422-83bc-ad43a856cb9c" data-vars-headline="Driver sentenced in West Portal crash that killed family of four" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/20/mary-lau-sentenced-probation-west-portal-crash/" target="_blank">was sentenced</a> to two years probation, 200 hours of community service and six days of jail time, per local news <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="reports" data-vars-click-url="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mary-fong-lau-west-portal-family-crash-sentence-22080184.php" data-vars-content-id="8f089736-1e74-4422-83bc-ad43a856cb9c" data-vars-headline="Driver sentenced in West Portal crash that killed family of four" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mary-fong-lau-west-portal-family-crash-sentence-22080184.php" target="_blank">reports</a>.

The trinket trade boom is taking over San Francisco

What began as an experiment in the Outer Sunset has now taken off across the city.

<figure><img alt="A trinket exchange box in San Francisco." height="450" id="76e69924-29ac-40e3-96d5-ee8a2f3d1948" src="https://images.axios.com/6xUpR04Sbar7FC_PJ7QXDMZU1VQ=/2026/03/05/1772746864702.gif" width="800"/><figcaption>The Keychange Exchange on Pine Street. Photo: Nadia Lopez/Axios</figcaption></figure>Across San Francisco, colorful, decorated boxes stuffed with trinkets are popping up on street corners and on sidewalks, turning ordinary blocks into miniature trading posts.The big picture: From the Outer and Inner Sunset to Noe Valley and the Castro, small trinket trade boxes stocked with everything from rings and rubber ducks, keychains, baseball cards, tiny ceramic animals, patches and custom pins are inviting strangers to take a tiny treasure and leave one behind.

North Beach gets custom pizza box trash cans

The new trash cans aim to reduce litter from oversized pizza boxes.

Pizza lovers in North Beach now have pizza box-shaped trash cans to dump their boxes in. State of play: Waste management provider Recology San Francisco and the city&#x27;s Department of Public Works installed two of the specialized receptacles last week to keep people from jamming empty pizza boxes into existing bins or leaving them in the street.

Nearly half of young adults in San Francisco think about leaving

45% of young childless adults in SF said they are "very likely" or "likely" to leave, per a recent survey.

Nearly half of San Francisco&#x27;s young, childless adults are thinking about packing up and leaving, a new survey finds.Why it matters: Lots of young people considering a move can signal bigger issues for a city, like a lack of perceived job opportunities or affordable housing, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Axios&#x27; Alex Fitzpatrick writes" data-vars-click-url="https://link.axios.com/click/42628428.14/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjUvMTEvMTgveW91bmctYWR1bHRzLWxpa2VseS1sZWF2ZS1jaXR5P3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZW5kdG9fbG9jYWxuZXdzbGV0dGVydGVzdCZzdHJlYW09dG9w/673d6f07cfc5ece025011323Bd9db8193" data-vars-content-id="07cda3e8-2789-4df6-afed-38c2ed9e0dfb" data-vars-headline="Nearly half of young adults in San Francisco think about leaving" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://link.axios.com/click/42628428.14/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjUvMTEvMTgveW91bmctYWR1bHRzLWxpa2VseS1sZWF2ZS1jaXR5P3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZW5kdG9fbG9jYWxuZXdzbGV0dGVydGVzdCZzdHJlYW09dG9w/673d6f07cfc5ece025011323Bd9db8193" target="_self">Axios&#x27; Alex Fitzpatrick writes</a>.

How Día de los Muertos ofrendas celebrate life, death and memory

Candles, marigolds, food, and papel picado welcome the spirits back home. Here's what it all means.

Día de los Muertos — or Day of the Dead — celebrates the enduring ties between the living and the dead over two days that honor those who have passed away.The big picture: On Nov. 1–2, Mexican families mark the holiday with colorful &quot;ofrendas&quot; — altars filled with offerings — to welcome the spirits of loved ones back home.

SF proposes higher fines to deter illegal dirt bike riding

A new bill aims to curb reckless dirt-bike takeovers with steeper misdemeanor penalties.

District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter unveiled legislation Tuesday to double San Francisco&#x27;s maximum fine for misdemeanor sideshow offenses to $1,000 in an effort to curb illegal dirt bike and ATV riding.Why it matters: The effort is part of a citywide crackdown on sideshows, illegal stunt driving and unauthorized dirt-bike takeovers, where massive clusters of riders have swarmed city streets and endangered public safety, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="per San Francisco police" data-vars-click-url="https://x.com/SFPD/status/1970280265202442251" data-vars-content-id="aa71bd70-9210-4262-9c11-b642cd3899af" data-vars-headline="SF proposes higher fines to deter illegal dirt bike riding" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://x.com/SFPD/status/1970280265202442251" target="_blank">per San Francisco police</a>.

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Inside San Francisco's off-leash dog culture war

We visited San Francisco's AI-run store so you don't have to

Our golden hero fire hydrant

San Francisco drivers respond: To tow or not to tow?

How to keep your dog safe during coyote pupping season