SF News Lawn Mowers and Leaf Blowers May Go Bye-Bye If Berkeley-Style Ban Goes Statewide Gas-powered mowers, leaf blowers, and weed whackers could get whacked as pollution opponents target gasoline-fueled lawn equipment.
SF News SF SPCA Bans Controversial 'Prong' Dog Collars From Campuses You've likely seen prong collars (like the one pictured above) on dogs in San Francisco — perhaps you've even used one yourself! (On a dog, jeez, what you do in private is your business.
SF News SF Might Ban Styrofoam Coolers, Packing Materials, And Beach Toys It's been nearly nine years since San Francisco banned Styrofoam coffee cups, to-go containers, after then Board of Supervisors President Aaron "I'm back" Peskin pushed forward legislation banning the use of such products
SF News Hoverboards Get An 'F' At SF State, Are Now Banned From Campus Hoverboards, the chosen transportation method of SantaConners and jerky rich guys, have gotten themselves a new foe: San Francisco State University president Leslie E. Wong. The devices, which despite their name are more
SF News Drink Fast! Ban On Booze Sales After Halftime Considered For Levi's Stadium A brutal brawl between 49ers and Vikings fans caught on video following last weekend's game has some Santa Clara City Council members expressing second thoughts about one of Levi's Stadium's biggest revenue streams:
SF News Plastic Bag Manufacturers Ready To Delay, Undo California's New Bag Ban In a move that surprised no one today, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB270, aka "California's plastic bag ban" into law. Just as unsurprisingly, the folks who make plastic bags are pissed, and say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Obama's Dim Sum Orgy Bought At Noted Shark-Fin Soup Purveyor! While visiting San Francisco for a couple of fundraisers on Thursday, President Barack Obama stopped off at Chinatown's Great Eastern Restaurant to grab some dim sum. Many of us have done this before,
SF News Brown Bans Tanning Beds for Kids In a move poised to stave off children looking like white trash, Governor Jerry Brown banned kids from using tanning beds. The legislation, singed over the weekend, makes California the first state to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Group Wants Cigarette-Like Warning Labels On Foie Gras Following on the heels of yesterday's report that, as soon as the ban goes into effect, foie gras will turn into an underground treat for gastronomes—all of this fattened liver talk has
SF News Obama Ends 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' As a friend succulently pointed out just now, "Obama just ended 'don't ask don't tell.' So much for staying in tonight." Indeed. President Barack Obama today signed a certification of Congress' repeal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Hookah Lounges Done, Banned Over the past year, the San Francisco Health Department has tirelessly worked to shutdown the scourge known as hookah lounges. For those not in the know, hookah lounges are a rite of passage
SF News San Francisco to Ban Goldfish? R&B duo Matier & Ross have word that the San Francisco Animal Control Commission suggests a citywide ban on goldfish sales. While buying pets from puppy and kittens mills are a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assembly Votes to Ban Sale of Shark Fin The state Assembly voted against fishermen who rip off shark fins and toss the still-barely-living sea creatures back into the ocean. "AB376 bans the sale, trade or possession of shark fins, a delicacy
SF News Berkeley Plastic Bag Ban On Hold Get it? On hold? Anyway, a plan to ban plastic bags in the city of Berkeley faces serious delays after the Coalition to Save the Plastic Bag raised a stink. "A ban on
SF News San Jose's Plastic Bag Ban is Better than Ours Not that we compare ourselves to San Jose that often, but our neighbor to the south has just become the largest city in the country to ban plastic grocery bags. We've been plastic-free
SF News 'We Will Not Defend Prop 8,' Says Kamala Harris During Kamala Harris' victory party last night at the Delancey Streey Foundation in South Beach, where she celebrated a narrow win against Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley in the Attorney General's
SF News Gov. Schwarzenegger Supports Plastic Bag Ban You know that not-so crazy plastic bag ban spearheaded by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi? Well, openly Republican (heh) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now also supports the eco-intelligent ban. So, you know, kudos to
SF News Lighting Up On Restaurant Patios Now Illegal In SF Although approved by the Board of Supervisors in March, a law banning smoking on restaurant patios went into effect this week. "Restaurants must not post signs advising customers they can only smoke at
SF News Ban Watch: Bottled Water Another day, another proposed ban in San Francisco. This week the city mulls over banning bottled water at all any and all events held on city property. The city's environmental commission will meet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom's Insipid Soda Ban Won't Ban Fat Sure, soda is unhealthy (except for Diet Coke, which gives life with each sip), but we here in the U.S of A have something called freedom of choice. But, don't tell that
SF News 2012 a Better Fit for Prop. 8 Repeal Measure? The effort to get a Proposition 8 repeal measure on the 2010 ballot fell short today, which would have given California voters the chance to decide on removing the ban on same-sex marriage.
SF News San Francisco May Get Tougher On Cigarette Smokers (Again) Though it was shot down last year by local businesses, on Tuesday the city reintroduced legislation that would bar the merciful release of nicotine "near the doors, vents and operable windows of any
SF News Newsom Wants to Remove Cars, Muni from Market Street Though not a new idea, its sanity level, or lack thereof, remains the same: permanently removing vehicles and Muni lines from Market Street. This is the latest idea tinkering around inside Newsom's sleek
SF News Santa Cruz Outdoor Smoking Ban Starts Today If you're heading down to Santa Cruz this weekend to buy and take illicit drugs -- a common practice in a city that seems to have crashed into the side of California --
SF News Sacramento Businesses Ban <i>Sacramento News & Review</i> Over Gay Cover (Allegedly) The July 2 issue of Sacramento News & Review, it seems, wasn't the most popular issue of SN&R. Why? Well, the cover story -- featuring a safe couple, Ben and Lonny
