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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on homelessness Nov 02, 2018

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Marc Benioff has been making headlines for his support of Prop. C to tax big businesses to raise money for homeless services — and for his scolding of other San Francisco CEOs for not doing the same. Heather Knight talked to him on the 61st story of the new Salesforce Tower, where you’re looking down on the top of the TransAmerica Pyramid and pretty much everything else in the Bay Area. He talked about why he backs Prop. C, why he’s taking other billionaires to task so publicly and how his grandfather, a member of the Board of Supervisors in the 1940s, inspired him.

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San Francisco Fire Chief hangs up her helmet Oct 22, 2018

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San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White is the first woman to ever hold the job and the longest serving big city fire chief in the country. After nearly 15 years on the job, she has a big announcement: she's ready to hang up her helmet.

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SF District Ten Candidate Shamann Walton Oct 18, 2018

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San Francisco District Ten Candidate Shamann Walton, a former school board president, has a lot of support from San Francisco and California political veterans. He also has a long history of work in the neighborhood. But some political observers have questioned how voters will respond to his track record.

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SF District Ten Candidate Tony Kelly Oct 18, 2018

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San Francisco District Ten Candidate Tony Kelly, the current president of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association, is a longtime neighborhood activist who has run for the seat twice before. He considers himself a democratic socialist -- but the question is how voters will respond to that label.

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SF District Ten Candidate Theo Ellington Oct 18, 2018

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San Francisco District Ten Candidate Theo Ellington, the current board president for the Bayview opera house, grew up in the Bayview and said his top three priorities would be "affordable housing, affordable housing and affordable housing." Ellington is the youngest candidate in this race, and the question some voters have about Theo is if he has enough experience to run a district.

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SF District Six Candidate Christine Johnson Oct 17, 2018

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San Francisco District Six Candidate Christine Johnson is a former planning commissioner with an engineering degree. A self-described a policy wonk, she is the only one in the race with experience working in a city department. But, so far, her campaign has failed to get as much momentum as her competitors.

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SF District Six Candidate Sonja Trauss Oct 16, 2018

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San Francisco District Six Candidate Sonja Trauss is a prominent housing activist who started the YIMBY movement and is running to bring a pro-housing voice to the Board of Supervisors. Trauss is often described as tenacious, outspoken and blunt. The question with her is how those qualities will translate into the board's chambers.

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SF District Six Candidate Matt Haney Oct 16, 2018

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Matt Haney is a school board member and a progressive candidate running for a district long held by supervisors of similar political stripes. He's running to create more shelter beds in District Six and to get the streets cleaned up. But he's up against two pro-housing moderates running a one-two ranked-choice voting strategy, and both have been endorsed by the mayor.

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SF District Four candidate Trevor McNeil Oct 11, 2018

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San Francisco District Four candidate Trevor McNeil, a public school teacher, is the only candidate in the District Four race who would support a Navigation Center in the district. He's picked up a smattering of endorsements, but whether he can get enough traction before November remains an open question.

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SF District Four candidate Gordon Mar Oct 11, 2018

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San Francisco District Four candidate Gordon Mar is a longtime labor activist in the city, who has a broad coalition of support from the building and labor and trade groups. But can this progressive candidate who sees housing opportunities on the westside win over a district long held by moderates?

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