SF Politics Hot Mic Appears to Catch Peskin Saying ‘That Guy’s a Horse’s Ass’ at Supervisors Meeting A hot mic moment at Tuesday’s SF Board of Supervisors meeting seems to show board president Aaron Peskin saying “That guy’s a horse’s ass” in response to a public commenter’s critical remarks.
SF Politics Supervisor Peskin Proposes Moving the Golden Gate Ferris Wheel to His District, at Fisherman’s Wharf Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was not a fan of putting the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park, is now a fan of putting it in his own district in time for November’s APEC Summit.
SF Politics Some Supervisors Vow to Jump In on This U.N. Plaza Farmers’ Market Controversy, Possibly Undoing the Move As the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market is set to be displaced to the next block over this weekend, two supervisors are proposing legislation to relitigate that decision, and maybe move the proposed skate park instead.
SF Politics Breed and Supervisors Heckled and Shouted Down at Press Conference On U.N. Plaza Drug-Dealing This made-for-TV event is not going to look good on TV, as Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors were heckled off their own stage and reportedly had a brick thrown at them at a Tuesday joint press conference on drug dealing at U.N. Plaza.
SF News Protests Erupt Following Banko Brown Charging Decision, Video Release; Peskin Calls for AG and DOJ Review There was a protest Monday that marched down Market Street to City Hall following the announcement by SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that no charges would filed in the Walgreens shooting of 24-year-old Banko Brown.
SF News Peskin Calls On DA to 'Reconsider' Charging Walgreens Guard After Supporters of Slain Victim Protest at City Hall The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday turned raucous when family members and supporters of Banko Brown — the trans man killed last week by a Walgreens security guard — swarmed the chamber demanding justice for Brown.
SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He Wants to Confront Mayor Breed In U.N. Plaza About the City's 'Humanitarian Crisis' Tensions are heating up again at City Hall, as Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that he wants to drag Mayor London Breed out to U.N. Plaza for some political theater.
SF News City's Bill For Shelter-In-Place Hotel Damages Rises With $2.9M Settlement For Hotel Tilden While the City of San Francisco continues to negotiate with hotel owners over what the costs of turning their hotels into ersatz homeless shelters during the pandemic turned out to be, one more hotel has just walked away with a considerable damage settlement.
SF Politics Board of Supervisors Palace Intrigue: Peskin Takes Presidency as Board Ousts Walton From Top Spot If you thought last week’s Kevin McCarthy drama was nuts, wait 'til you hear about Supervisor Aaron Peskin winning the SF Board of Supervisors presidency after 17 votes, in what was either a masterful move of three-dimensional chess, or a sign of just utter dysfunction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Peskin Apologizes For Comments Directed at Honey Mahogany One arrest has been made in a double homicide in Hayward, federal officials have seized a PG&E utility pole where the Mosquito Fire began, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin is apologizing for some "inelegant" comments about supervisor candidate Honey Mahogany.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink El Farolito Is Coming to North Beach After All The North Beach El Farolito is suddenly expected to open “any day now,” as after an eight-month battle over SF formula retail rules, a compromise deal has greased the skids for the taqueria to open near Grant Avenue and Broadway.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Sure Has Questions About an Unexplained $461,000 Check the City Received from Recology The city apparently received a $461,000 check from Recology on September 16 and has no idea why. They haven’t cashed it yet, and Supervisor Peskin has a few pointed questions about this.
SF Politics Sup. Peskin Opens Up About Sobriety, Colleagues Say He’s Behaving More Diplomatically Four months into the supervisor’s recovery, he spoke to the Chronicle about his “whole new chapter,” and even his political enemies say he’s more pleasant to be around these days.
SF Politics Peskin Apology Adds to Already Dramatic Board of Supervisors Meeting as Tensions Mount With Mayor Supervisor Aaron Peskin appeared at his first public meeting Tuesday afternoon since announcing last week that he would be seeking professional treatment for alcohol abuse. But that wasn't the only drama.
SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He's Entering Rehab for Alcohol, Apologizes for 'Tenor' of His Public Relationships Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who over the last year has been called out on social media a couple of times for sounding drunk during Zoom meetings of the SF Board of Supervisors, announced Thursday that he is entering a treatment program for alcohol abuse.
SF News SamTrans Being Blamed For Dumping SFO's Homeless On Embarcadero There's a weird story today in which a San Francisco supervisor is pointing the finger at San Mateo County and the SamTrans bus agency for intentionally shuttling homeless people out of SFO and dropping them off at 2 a.m. at the new "end of the line" near the Embarcadero.
SF News Uber And Lyft Responsible For Two-Thirds Of Downtown Traffic Violations In our latest installment of No, It's Not Just You, we address your conspiracy theory that Lyft and Uber drivers are causing disproportionate problems in bike lanes, transit lanes, and all places that
SF News SF Might Start Taxing Landlords Who Keep Apartments Vacant It's a comment news orgs get on nearly every story about San Francisco's rent control laws — something like,"I'm a property owner, but I refuse to rent out my vacant apartment(s) because
SF News How Does Your Supervisor Kill Time On The Internet? An Analysis Anyone who’s endured any portion of a weekly San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting knows that these are godawfully long and dull affairs during which no sentient human could ever avoid the
SF News Why Is Mark Leno Entering The Mayor's Race So Early, And Where's Ed Lee Been Lately? As we learned the other week, former state senator, assemblyman, and SF supervisor Mark Leno has announced he's running for mayor in 2019, i.e. almost two and a half years from now.
SF News City Pens Angry Letter To PG&E About Blackout, Says Communication That Day Was 'Nonexistent' City officials are tallying up the economic impacts of Friday's eight-hour blackout which affected some of the densest and busiest parts of San Francisco, shutting down 21 schools and impacting countless businesses for
SF News Berkeley Prof Who Consulted On Sinking SF Tower Blames The Ground, Which He Wasn't Required To Examine A Cal professor who worked as a paid consultant on the Millennium Tower claimed to city supervisors yesterday that an additional expert would have been needed to look at the building's geotechnical complications,
SF News Chinese Bike-Share Outfit Warned Not To Drop Thousands Of Bikes On SF Streets Without Permits Chinese bike-sharing startup Bluegogo may have to backpedal on its plans to expand to San Francisco. City officials are warning the company not to proceed without permits and perhaps to the detriment of
SF News Peskin Leads Coalition To Save Van Ness Streetlamps (And Delay Bus Rapid Transit Plan) A fight that's supposedly about the character of Van Ness Avenue, which some might call a contradiction in terms, is heating up further as Supervisor Aaron Peskin announces a "Coalition of Save the
SF News Peskin At Millennium Tower Hearing: 'This Isn't Somebody's Leaking Toilet. This Is a Big Deal.' Supervisor Peskin grills city officials about Millennium-"this isn't somebody's leaking toilet-this is a big deal" pic.twitter.com/E167qhiHAY— carolyn tyler (@ctylerabc7) September 22, 2016 The political piece of the Millennium Tower
