Late last week we heard that City Treasurer Jose Cisneros had heeded the call of hotel unions and the Tenants Union to impose the city's 14% hotel tax on AirBnB rentals. Now we're getting that there's a movement afoot to tax all kinds of things associated with our web-fueled, underground economies, like TaskRabbit income, and this homeless guy we wrote about last year who gives walking tours of the Tenderloin for a little extra cash. Really, S.F.? Has it come to this? more ›

Yesterday we mentioned the delightful work trip/vacation San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros took to Australia for Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Trannyshack founder Heklina was there, too. And many readers fretted about whether or not city tax dollars went to pay for this trip down under -- an excursion, it should be mentioned, that will reportedly bring in much-needed tourist dollars to SF. Anyway, according to Dufty's office: more ›

Somehow we overlooked this last week, but local porn-ish blog, the Sword, captured images of San Francisco's openly bent politicos Supervisor/personality Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros kicking it together at Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. And it looked downright outrageous. more ›