SF News City Hall Swag Scores, By The Numbers The Political Reform Act (aka Gov. Code sections 8100091014) requires state and local public officials to make an annual public filing that discloses their personal assets and income. San Francisco officials who miss
SF News John Avalos Seeks To Further Protect Sanctuary City Ordinance After his car was stolen, El Salvadoran national Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno went to the San Francisco Police Department to file a report. But when officers learned of a warrant for his arrest — it
SF News SF To Become First US City To Require 100-Percent Paid Parental Leave It's all but a done deal that the Board of Supervisors Tuesday will vote to approve a pioneering ordinance that will allow parents of both genders to receive full pay for
SF News Board Of Supes Reprimands UCSF For Firing Of Chinese-Speaking Janitors There's been a recent dustup between the Board of Supervisors and the city's second largest employer, UCSF, over what the supervisors see as unjust labor practices on the part
SF News Supervisors Move Forward With Eviction Protection For Teachers A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee gave its seal of approval this week to legislation that would protect teachers, school employees, child caregivers, and their families from evictions during the academic year.
SF News $2.25 Million Settlement Expected For Woman Injured During Early-Morning Fall From Palace Of Fine Arts Structure #SF could pay $2.25M to woman injured at Palace of Fine Arts https://t.co/yllJUZ1BVb pic.twitter.com/KMFdL3swoE — SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) March 22, 2016 San Francisco's City Attorney
SF News Supervisors Use Self-Deleting Message App To Bypass Public Records Laws Former Mayor Willie Brown once joked to a colleague, or so the New York Times writes, that the "e" in "email" stood for "evidence." Only, he probably
SF News Battle Over Dogs In Parks Heats Up As Supervisors Pass Resolution Opposing GGNRA Rules The anti-snowy plover crusade continued this week, as the Board of Supervisors yesterday passed a resolution opposing proposed National Park Service restrictions on dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The
SF News High Towing Fees Could Come Down Following Supervisors' Scrutiny Towing fees in San Francisco are some of the most wildly expensive in the nation, standing at two to three times what you might pay in any other major US city. If one
SF News Supervisor Avalos Wants To Ban Oil Extraction From Public Land That Currently Benefits SF Libraries And Parks In his 1941 will, local businessman Albert Fuhrman left the city of San Francisco 800 acres of oil land in Kern County. Since then, San Francisco has leased the land to oil companies
SF News So NOW We Have A Homelessness Crisis, Supervisor Campos Decides After seven years on the Board of Supervisors, David Campos woke up this morning and decided that San Francisco had entered a homelessness crisis. Campos' team was up early, too, calling SFist
SF News Cigarette Buying No Longer An All-Ages Event in SF, As Supes Vote To Raise Tobacco Purchase Age To 21 We warned you back in November, and now it's official: After an unanimous vote at the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, San Francisco will soon raise the age one is allowed to
SF News Supervisors Not Happy About Proposed Restrictions On Dogs In Parks #SF supervisors rally w/dog owners before presenting resolution against dog restrictions at Ocean Beach & GGNRA land pic.twitter.com/vIXchNXCrO — Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) March 1, 2016 It looks like Nancy
SF News New Evidence Emerges In SFPD Shootings As Complaints Office Seeks More Authority A proposal authored by Supervisor Malia Cohen to give the Office of Citizen Complaints complete authority to investigate all police shootings is moving forward, the Examiner reports, with the Board's Rules
SF News City Hall Gets Lazy With Board Of Supes Class Photo, Photoshops Peskin In Something mildly amusing making the rounds on Facebook this afternoon: The official Board of Supervisors class photo for 2016, the full size version of which can be found here and linked from this
SF News Former Figure Of Progressive Fear Trades SF For Las Vegas Call it Daly's Law: Every time something outrageous happens in San Francisco's City Hall, you can basically count the seconds until a member of the local commentariat mentions controversial
SF News Shadowy Group With Alleged Lee Ties Seeks To Scare Progressives With Term Limit Amendment When once and again San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced his run to reclaim his Board seat last spring, some asked how he could do that, given that he's already served
SF News Police Officers Association Spreading Petition To Repeal 'Mario Woods Day' A petition created by an anonymous individual seeks to challenge the Board of Supervisors' recent decision to declare July 22 a day in honor of Mario Woods. The petition calls the Supervisors
SF News Handshake Deal: How SF Scored The Super Bowl With No Written Agreement Sup Bro. #SB50 pic.twitter.com/ao8ImxugZ1 — shanan (@shanand) January 28, 2016 To win the Super Bowl, the City of San Francisco played ball. An independent office of the Budget and Legislative Analysis
SF News Uproar Begins As Supervisor Wiener Tries To Enforce Tent Ban On Homeless Postcards from SF: Our homeless camp stretching 0.8 mile, both sides of the street from 13th/Otis to 13th/San Bruno. pic.twitter.com/JIMGn7L7Fi — Violet Blue ® (@violetblue) January 22, 2016 Three
SF News SF May Limit Chain-Store Subsidiaries, Too San Francisco's formula retail rules, est. 2004, don't themselves adhere to any one strict formula. For example, while Hayes Valley, Chinatown's tourist corridor, and North Beach ban
SF News Supervisors Seek Day Of Remembrance For Mario Woods, DOJ Investigation Into His Killing By SFPD An apology. A day of remembrance. And hopefully a Department of Justice Investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's use-of-force, training, and tactics. That's all the Board
SF News Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter
SF News Supervisor Wiener Thwarts 'Not A Very Well-Thought-Out' Phone Theft Snatching Supervisor Scott Wiener's phone at 16th and Valencia was "not a very well-thought-out crime," or so the politician told San Francisco magazine. Indeed, the suspiciously tall
SF News Idaho Stop Legislation Passes First Vote, Barely; Bike Coalition Tweets At Supervisors Throughout Vote As we noted on Monday, the contentious issue of legalizing the rolling "Idaho stop" for cyclists came for a vote at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday, and as predicted it
