SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF News The Incredibly Close And Shockingly Expensive Peskin/Christensen Race, By The Numbers Fans and hate-watchers of local politics have been following the race for District 3 supervisor since March, when former D3 Supe Aaron Peskin announced that he wanted to re-occupy the seat currently held
SF News Airbnb's $8 Million And More: SF Campaign Fundraising, By The Numbers As things ramp up towards November's election in San Francisco, big money has been flooding in and out of the offices of some hotly-contested (in most cases) local campaigns. Want to take a
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
SF News Big Names Throw Their Weight Behind Julie Christensen, Against Aaron Peskin Less than a month after former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin announced his intention to reclaim his old seat on the board, some of San Francisco's biggest names are out
SF News Willie Brown Says Newsom Should Be Hillary's Veep, Calls Peskin A 'Troll,' And Likes <i>Furious 7</i> This week's Willie's World is full of terrific tidbits from the man we all once called Da Mayor. First off he'd like everyone to know that Gavin Newsom should be Hillary Clinton's most
SF News Veteran Progressive Aaron Peskin Wants His Board Of Supervisors Seat Back In a move that was fully expected within politico circles, longtime supervisor of the last decade, Aaron Peskin, will be vying to return to his seat as supervisor of District 3. The move
SF News Developer Will Spend $80 Million To Redevelop Flower Mart As anticipated, Kilroy Realty Corp. made known its plans for the embattled Flower Mart today. It's now promising a new underground market for vendors who won't, in all likelihood, be forced to seek
SF News The Next Big Development Battle Site: The Flower Mart Over in white-hot SoMa, another property that could be making a whole lot of money for one developer is set to become the site of the next battle between that developer and a
SF News Dueling 8 Washington Props Go Down In Flames Setting aside for a moment the absurdity of having the entire city vote on a single development project that upset a group of neighbors, we bring you the news that you've maybe already
SF News NYT Slams Larry Ellison And The America's Cup Today the New York Times gets in on the America's Cup hating game, criticizing Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison for making the regatta so expensive to participate in that only four boats are going
SF News NIMBY Watch: North Beach Folks Want to Stop/Stall Central Subway Construction It wouldn't be Monday in San Francisco without a tale of a construction project that someone, somewhere is going to fight tooth and nail to stop. Work is beginning on the North Beach
SF News China Trying to Control S.F. Election, Says Aaron Peskin In crazy-guy-on-the-bus news, Aaron Peskin--former Board of Supervisors President and scribe of a 37-page letter to the Ethics Commission claiming shenanigans in Progress for All’s Ed Lee mayoral campaign--gave an interview to
SF News Watch Aaron Peskin's Last Day as President of BOS Live! Goodness gracious, how time flies! Today, for those of you who don't care, is Aaron Peskin's final day as Board of Supervisors President. (Also, it's Jake McGoldrick's last day too.) Sniff. Peskin was
SF News Chris Daly's Threatening Email to SFDCCC Members Revealed! You know how Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin was elected to the head of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee? Beating out former chair Scott Wiener? All because Chris Daly spammed
SF News Peskin Crowned King of San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee Progressives scored a big win on Wednesday night. SF Board of Supes Prez Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin was elected to head the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee last night, inching out
SF News Singing Guy Returns to Board of Supervisor Meetings With Aplomb Thanks, CUIP-SF, for sending the following clip our way. Walter (AKA singing guy at the Board of Supervisor meetings) has returned, folks. As we mentioned yesterday, he was reported to have made a
SF News Newsom Must Still Must Attend <del>Detention</del> Board of Supervisor Meetings Much to our surprise, the motion that almost allowed our fair Mayor Gavin Newsom to eschew his monthly cameos Board of Supervisor meeting was tabled. That is to say, it was killed. Dead.
SF News Gavin's People Gots To Be Paid Knowing that the report wouldn't put the Mayor in that nice of a light, he held a pre-emptory press briefing on Friday in which he said everything was on the up-and-up, that it
SF News The Trumpification of Aaron "Payback Is a Bitch" Peskin San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin has been on a bit of a roll lately. In addition to threatening to have Newsom's director of climate protection initiatives, Wade Crowfoot, canned out
SF News Tastes Great AND Less Filling The raise came about thanks to Proposition J, which we all passed in 2002. The proposition said that at $37,858, the members of the board needed a pay raise, which seems kind
SF News Fozen Yogurt Wars: <i>Survivor</i> Winner Out It looks like Survivor: Cook Island winner Yul Kwon won't get to serve you air-pumped, sugary, dairy-like deliciousness. After getting ready to set up a Red Mango chain in North Beach, and after
misc Barack Obama Rising in California -- Rally at City Hall Of course Hillary Clinton is still a formidable candidate, especially in the bigger states. This all adds up to a certain humdinger of an election. This campaign trail is heading right to your
SF News Horrors: Newsom's Hawaiian Weekend Getaway “I was shocked,” said Board of Supervisors Prez Aaron Peskin after being asked about Gavin Newsom's whereabouts this past weekend. Same here. Word is that Gavin was in Hawaii this past weekend, kicking
SF News Payback's A Whiny Brat With Chris Daly focusing on the birth of his second child (congrats, Chris and Sarah!), SF Board of Supes prez Aaron Peskin has manfully taken over the essential city function of provoking District
