A legendary KCBS Radio political reporter known as "the dean of the City Hall press corps" could soon have her name on the very press room she frequented for decades.
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Tuesday introduced a resolution to rename the press room after Barbara Taylor, who passed away last year from ongoing complications she suffered following a car crash.
Taylor retired from KCBS Radio in 2015.
"For decades, Barbara Taylor was not only the voice of reporting every detail of City Hall from catastrophic earthquakes to the introduction of legislation, but in many ways, she was the mature conscious of City Hall," Peskin told KCBS Radio's Bob Butler. "She held elected officials accountable. She knew what everybody was up to."
Taylor covered politics, elections and scandals throughout her decades-long career. Those stories included some of San Francisco's biggest during her time with the station: the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of then-Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Peskin, who teased the tribute at the time of Taylor's passing, said many admired her "remarkable integrity."
"I think the appropriate way of not only acknowledging and celebrating her life, but of making people at City Hall know that there was a Barbara Taylor and what she stood for, rises to the level of naming the press room where she worked for 40 years 'The Barbara A. Taylor Press Room,'" he added.
At the time of her death, tributes poured in from notable names across California, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein State Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed – among many others.
The legislation is expected to pass unanimously.
Read the full resolution below.
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