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According to The San Francisco Standard, between December 2025 and May 2026 the total number of parking tickets issued in the City rose by 21 percent. The biggest jump was in Mission Bay, where 54 percent more citations were written. Six other neighborhoods saw increases of 30 percent or more, including Potrero Hill and Bayview Hunters Point. In Mission Bay, tickets for invalid registration surged from just one in 2020-21 to 135 in 2025-26. Citations for obstructing traffic jumped from nine to 711, with parking in passenger loading zones swelling from 50 to 722.
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Pacific Gas & Electric plowed at least $13.5 million into a successful effort to defeat Tom Steyer in his campaign for governor, with other for-profit utilities similarly spending money to keep Steyer from advancing past the primary stage… Concerns over affordability and public safety have slow-stirred San Francisco’s fight for public power for years, though PG&E asserts that a takeover would increase electricity rates. While ballot measures to municipalize the electricity distribution system have been voted down for decades, the City may no longer have to go to the electorate. Proposition A, passed in 2018, allows the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to issue revenue bonds to buy clean power facilities with approval by two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors. If San Francisco and PG&E agree on a price – a low probability, unless forced by the California Public Utilities Commission – the City could potentially proceed to buy PG&E’s wire, poles and other physical infrastructure, according to John Coté, a spokesperson for San Francisco Power and Water. Utility economist Jim Lazar estimated that rates could go down by upwards of 20 percent in the 10 years following a purchase, primarily because investor-owned utilities have costs that make them more expensive to run than consumer-owned utilities.
