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Are YIMBYs on the Verge of Winning San Francisco’s Housing War?

During his seven years in the Legislature, no elected official in California has proposed more ambitious policies to streamline housing construction than Wiener.

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Gov. Newsom says he’ll sign Sen. Scott Wiener’s greenhouse gas emissions disclosure bill

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday announced that he will sign the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, Sen. Scott Wiener’s greenhouse gas emissions disclosure requirement bill.

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California Bill Proposes Regulating AI at State Level

A senior California lawmaker will introduce a new artificial intelligence (AI) bill to the state’s senate on Wednesday, adding to national and global efforts to regulate the fast-accelerating technology.

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Ezra Klein Interviews Scott Wiener

If California has long been a bellwether for national liberal politics, Senator Scott Wiener has been something of a bellwether for California politics.

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Loved or hated, lawmaker Scott Wiener is a lightning rod who could make history

Long before Scott Wiener became California’s leading housing iconoclast or a regular target for scathing Fox News diatribes, he was an introverted New Jersey teen with enviable choices for college.

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‘I would do it all over again’: How S.F.’s Scott Wiener became the politician the far right loves to hate

Of the thousands of threatening and hate-filled messages that state Sen. Scott Wiener has received over the last three years, one stands out as the most visceral.

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Three ambitious climate bills to watch in California

Under a measure introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, companies that bring in at least $1 billion in revenue and do business in California would have to annually report their greenhouse gas emissions to the public.

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State of Hate: Out California State Senator Scott Wiener

California will never be a ‘don’t say gay state. There are laws in place that would stop that from happening, and they are holding strong.

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Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics

Can Scott Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use is causing now?

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POLITICO Q&A: California Senate Housing Chair Scott Wiener

Wiener talks about the UC Berkeley enrollment freeze and the power of the California Environmental Quality Act.

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It Shouldn’t Take 50 Meetings to Build Some Apartments

Since being elected to office in 2016, Wiener has been a legislating machine, churning out bills that aim to chip away at restrictions on building and eliminate single-family zoning throughout the state.

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What I Learned When QAnon Came for Me

I’m a gay, Jewish Democrat — the perfect target for an internet cult obsessed with pinning pedophilia on gays, Jews and Democrats.

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California poised to become national leader on mental health and addiction coverage

The bill – SB 855 by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco – would significantly expand what treatments are considered medically necessary for health insurance coverage.

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