Mission Station s new captain is spending at least some of her first weeks on the job reconnecting with the communities she serves in central San Francisco. It s been absolutely fantastic, Captain Rachel Moran told the Bay Area Reporter. It s great reconnecting with staff at the station and going out to talk with the community from a captain s perspective. It s good for your soul great, but busy, let me tell you.
As the B.A.R. reported last month, Moran, who d been an officer at Mission Station for about a decade until being transferred to the special victims unit for a year and a half, returned to become the first woman to lead the station February 20. In addition to the Mission district, the station serves part of the Castro and Noe Valley.
Neighborhood merchants are reeling from the effects of lockdowns such as an ongoing spate of window-breaking and other vandalism even while the Castro joins the rest of San Francisco in moving into the less restrictive red tier of COVID-19 reopenings.
That and updates from gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and bisexual Assistant District Attorney Matt Donahue, his office s liaison to the neighborhood, were the focus of the virtual Thursday meeting of the Castro Merchants.
Dave Karraker, a gay man who is a spokesperson for, and board member of, Castro Merchants, told the B.A.R. late last week that the association is launching the Castro Window Recovery Initiative.
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LAKE PLACID It’s been almost two years since officials at the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism proposed using an extra 2% of Essex County’s occupancy tax for community development. And now for the town of North Elba, at least they are ready to explain how the program will be implemented in 2021. When ROOST CEO Jim McKenna and Chief of Staff Mary Jane Lawrence sat down with the Lake Placid News on Feb. 22, 2019, they said increasing the occupancy tax known informally as a “bed tax” from 3% to 5% was needed in order to improve communities throughout the county.
Rep. Marcia Fudge talks about her priorities in the Biden administration: Capitol Letter
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 11, 2020
Vice President Elect Kamala Harris, left, with U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, right. (AP Photo/David Dermer) (AP Photo/David Dermer)AP
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Fudge on the record: President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday officially announced that Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge is his pick to be Housing and Urban Development secretary, Sabrina Eaton reports. After the announcement, Eaton interviewed Fudge about her priorities for her new job and her role in picking a congressional successor.
Bench manager: The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party will fill vacancies for the county central committee at a meeting next Thursday. What sounds like routine business could become much more important given the potential special election to replace Fudge in Congress, Seth Richardson reports. County Party Chairwoman Shontel Brown, who is runn