SF News Airbnb Law Impossible To Enforce, Says Agency Tasked With Enforcement Less than two months after the controversial Airbnb-legalization ordinance took effect, the city agency that has been dealing with the registration nightmare of the city's many thousands of Airbnb hosts, the Planning Department,
SF News Landlords Now Suing Over Tenant Buyout Law As the Board of Supervisors tries valiantly to push back against the market forces that are displacing many tenants in rent-controlled apartments across the city, landlords and the industry group the San Francisco
SF News One To Watch: BoS President London Breed Revives Pissily Deleted Twitter Account Two months after SFist wished it, it has become so: Board President and one time "Amanda Bynes of SF Supes" London Breed has returned to Twitter, years after she deleted her account in
SF News How The Police Union Intimidated Supervisors Into Voting Against Police Brutality Resolution Remember the non-binding resolution, introduced by Supervisor John Avalos, that caused a stir among the SFPD and its union back in December? Well, the Examiner has now unearthed the strong-arming emails in which
SF News Amended Ellis Act Relocation Law Caps Landlord Payouts At $50K Supervisor David Campos has come back to the Board with a new, dialed back version of the Ellis Act payout legislation that was previously passed and took effect last summer only to be
SF News Now Mayor Lee Wants A City-Run Clean Energy Program, On His Terms “If San Francisco is going to do a clean energy program, let’s do a real one,” Mayor Lee said in a statement announcing a shift in his priorities. The Chron reports that
SF News Get Ready To Register Your Airbnb And Follow All The New Rules Starting Next Month Renting out a room on Airbnb ain't what it used to be. In fact, now you have to do a little clearance first, thanks to our first-of-its-kind law passed last year by the
SF News Proposed Ocean Ave. Vape Shop Clouded In Debate Happy Vape at 1963 Ocean Avenue could be a canary in the e-cigarette-store coal mine. That's to say that the proposed store, which was granted a conditional-use permit by the Planning Commission, is
SF News London Breed, One-Time 'Amanda Bynes Of SF Supervisors,' Is Now Their President Who would have thought it? London Breed, District 5's representative for the Board of Supervisors, is now the president of the Board. That's right, the woman we dubbed "The Amanda Bynes Of S.
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Give Green Light To 'LightRail' Art Project Up Market Street At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, the Supes unanimously approved a proposal by the foundation that brought us The Bay Lights to install another light-based art project, this one up Market Street from
SF News Day Around The Bay: Singing Frogs San Francisco has a love-hate relationship with the Pacific chorus frog. [BayNature] This video takes you on a tour of opening night at Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb. [Eater] The Street Sheet got a redesign
SF News City May Cut The Number Of Businesses Allowed To Sell Tobacco Products In an effort that began six years ago and came up for debate again today in the Board of Supes' Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee, the City may limit the number of businesses
SF News Katy Tang Elected Interim President of Board Of Supes Despite an eleventh-hour letter (noted here in the Chron) from former Supervisors Quentin Kopp, Harry Britt, Tom Ammiano, Matt Gonzalez and Aaron Peskin that urged the current board not to elect their next
SF News Mild Intrigue Surrounds Mayor's Possible Appointment To David Chiu's Board Seat, Board President Vote Those who follow every moderate-liberal-vs-progressive chess move in S.F.'s political landscape should probably find themselves a more compelling hobby. But if you are one of those people, the coming weeks should
SF News SF's Soda And Property Flipper Tax Measures Fail, Minimum Wage Increase Triumphs San Francisco made it through nearly half the alphabet, we had so many propositions to vote on this year. How did your pet issues do? WINNER: Local Measure A - San Francisco Transportation
SF News Here Are All The (Preliminary) Election Results You Need To Know From Last Night How about that super expensive midterm election, huh? It killed a couple thousand trees just in local races alone, got the doctors all really worried that they won't be able to party on
SF News Campos vs. Chiu: Progressives Raising Progressively More Campaign Money It’s ‘commie vs. commie’ in the Nov. 4 Assembly race of David Chiu vs. David Campos, a rematch of the exact same candidates you chose between in this past June’s primary
SF News The Nudists Will Be Protesting Scott Wiener Again Next Weekend It's an election year, and incumbent District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener may not be facing a ton of competition in the race, but that doesn't mean the nudist contingent will not be trying
SF News Airbnb Regulation Passes; Supervisors Let Company Off The Hook For Back Taxes At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, the much discussed and fairly controversial Airbnb legitimacy law passed by a vote of 7 to 4, along with some new amendments. One amendment that failed to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Spending Big Bucks To Defeat Soda Tax Measure, And They've Got Bill Clinton On Their Side You may have already seen the above TV spot which just launched last week from the No on E campaign. It's funded by the deep pockets of the American beverage industry who have
SF News More On The Escalating Tensions Between Transbay Developers And City Hall This all may be much ado about nothing in the end because it's in everyone's best interest to resolve this dispute quickly and no one really wants a lawsuit but tensions remain high
Arts & Entertainment SF Moves Closer To Getting A Permanent Trannyshack Though Trannyshack won't be called Trannyshack as of 2015, that doesn't mean the iconic drag event is just going to curl up and die. In fact, proposed changes to San Francisco's zoning laws
SF News Scott Wiener Jumps On Truvada Train, Tells The World He Is On It Sometimes our gay Supervisors have to battle it out for who's courting the gay vote better, and this week it's all about Truvada the HIV-prevention pill that Supervisor David Campos says more people
SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
SF News Mayor, Board of Supervisors Actually Required By Law to Ride Muni This is news to us: A 1993 ballot measure, sponsored by a group led by Jerry Brown, made it official city policy that the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and other top city
