SF News Mayor Seeks Increase In Affordable Housing Requirements Ed Lee, reelected mayor but of a different San Francisco, today announced a new call to increase the percentage of affordable housing required from private market-rate developers building new housing. With Board
SF News Ridiculous Ballot Measure Calling For Killing Of Gay People Tossed Out By California Judge In case there was any doubt, and needless to report, a California judge has summarily dismissed the proposed Sodomite Suppression Act, a ballot measure written by a bigoted Orange County lawyer that advocated
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November
SF News New Ballot Measure Would Unleash Vengeful Taxes On House Flippers Supervisor Eric Mar and a group of tenants activists proposed a new ballot measure yesterday that, if passed, would impose a hefty "antispeculation" tax of up to 24% on any budding
SF News San Francisco's Transportation Funding Ballot Measure Plan By The Numbers * $1.5 billion: The approximate amount of money San Francisco is attempting to generate with multiple voter-approved initiatives this November * $635 million: The portion of that money that would go toward Muni
SF News Jane Kim, Supervisors, Quietly Trying to Rewrite Care Not Cash A ballot measure spearheaded by District 6's Jane Kim was "quietly" added to the November ballot yesterday, setting the stage for the first revision -- and arguable dismantling -- of Gavin
SF News Oakland Might Become First U.S. City to Tax Marijuana Sales ABC 7 brings us this report about how Oakland may try to solve its budget crisis, in part, by becoming the first city in the nation to directly tax marijuana dispensaries. The city
