Scott Wiener rolls out another plan to build housing at transit hubs — with a more surgical approach
State Sen. Scott Wiener is rolling out a new bill to construct housing near transit hubs — a vision he’s long promoted to combat sprawl and lure people out of their cars. In the past, such proposals ...
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Playing political Whac-A-Mole as issue of bond measure language pops up again
The California Legislature is often the arena for games of political Whac-A-Mole. A piece of controversial legislation fails to clear all of the Capitol’s procedural hurdles and appears to die, but ...
California has 30 new proposals to rein in AI. Trump could complicate them
President Trump is taking a very different approach to AI than the Biden administration, and it could affect how California ...
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Latest CEQA reform effort a ‘major needle-mover,’ some housing advocates say
State Sen. Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, has put forward a bill — SB 607 — that would make a number of highly ...
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Senator Wiener Condemns Trump Administration’s Threat to Defund UC Campuses
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) On Tuesday strongly condemned the Trump Administration’s ...
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‘Trump admin doesn’t care about Jewish students, faculty,’ state senator says
"The Trump administration is the most antisemitic administration in modern U.S. history and it has no credibility whatsoever in seeking to root out antisemitism," stated Scott Wiener, co-chair of the ...
Trump ‘does not care about Jewish students,’ Sen. Wiener says in response to defunding threat
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has slammed President Donald Trump’s targeting of several Northern California ...
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Less distraction, more rebuilding: Sen. Wiener’s Senate Bill 222 is a waste of time
State Sen. Scott Wiener represents San Francisco in the Legislature (a 386-mile drive from the Pacific Palisades and a ...
The author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in California
The author of California's SB 1047, the nation's most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that ...
This California lawmaker is worried about AI, wants whistleblowers protected
The California lawmaker who introduced an AI safety protection bill later vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom has again introduced legislation to regulate the powerful technology. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San ...
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California lawmaker relaunches AI safety bill after national Big Tech pushback
State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, filed the full details of his second attempt at reining in the potential harms of artificial intelligence late Thursday night, after his last bill ...