To aid those evacuating from the Sonoma County Kincade Fire, San Francisco opened a temporary disaster shelter at St. Mary's Cathedral. Mayor London Breed made a proclamation Sunday declaring a local emergency to provide mutual aid to the forces combating the wildfire and effects. The Board of Supervisors has seven days to ratify the proclamation. KTVU | San Francisco Examiner

A roundup of how to help Kincade Fire victims. Hoodline

An explainer of the worsening wildfires. CalMatters

Air quality index map. SFGate

San Francisco’s elections for district attorney and district 5 supervisor will be the only competitive races on the Nov. 5 ballot. Reports filed with the Ethics Commission published Thursday show how much money has been spent campaigning up to Oct. 19. The results will shape the Board of Supervisors' political makeup and decide San Francisco's top prosecutor. San Francisco Chronicle |
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Former DA George Gascon announced his run for Los Angeles DA. San Francisco Examiner

Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed DA candidate Chesa Boudin. San Francisco Examiner

“Everything I can see by it — the handwriting, the date, the numbers all correspond with others that we have seen.”

A bartender paid $1,000 for a promissory note claimed to belong to San Francisco's famed eccentric Emperor Joshua Norton. It’s apparently real, the 40th known note of its type from the late 19th century and worth $15,000. The co-owner of Emperor Norton's Boozeland who bought it held a viewing party Sunday. NBC

“If they don’t make changes that satisfy our concerns, we will sue.”

Dog owners are protesting a rule that establishes more dog-walking restrictions in the park lands of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties. It allows National Park Service authorities to wield more power when citing and fining dog owners, and when impounding their pets. Other requirements include leashing dogs on stairwells at Ocean Beach and at several areas of Fort Funston. Park officials claim that the change to their biannual rulebook was so small, it didn’t warrant a public comment; hundreds submitted one anyway. San Francisco Examiner

“The idea that someone would hold a transformative measure like Faster Bay Area hostage to try to force a governance change — it puzzles me.”

Two San Francisco supervisors are opposing a $100 billion ballot measure that would fund enormous transportation projects, like extending Caltrain to downtown San Francisco and creating a second BART Transbay Tube. Supervisors Shamann Walton and Aaron Peskin said Tuesday that they’d only consider supporting the November 2020 measure if Caltrain is separated from the San Mateo County Transit District. The supervisors said San Francisco and Santa Clara counties should possess more control over the leadership and operations at Caltrain San Francisco Chronicle

Separately, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has failed to meet its self-imposed deadlines to hold Lyft accountable for its lack of electric bikes.
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In 2014, Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, was made San Francisco’s official third language under the Language Access Ordinance, giving city government services one year to add it to their services offerings. A new study has found that Tagalog is not as widely delivered as it should be leaving many monolingual speakers without basic information. The report outlines many solutions for City Hall to comply with the ordinance. 48hills

“I have about 10 friends who are dead from smoking this — and not just from fentanyl being in it — and someday that will probably be me.”

City officials announced plans last week for a methamphetamine sobering center to move addicts off the street and combat the homeless community’s worsening meth epidemic. Physicians are calling it the hardest drug to quit, and one without any effective medical treatment. Meth-related deaths have quintupled citywide between 2008 and 2018, according to the Department of Public Health.
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