SF News John Avalos Affair Makes City Hall Rethink Its Employee Handbook Approximately 12 San Franciscans, including his wife, cared about the revelation last week that Supervisor John Avalos had an extended affair with one of his close aides. That aide, Raquel Redondiez, has since
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Calls John Avalos 'Supervisor A**hole': Video This is as close to reality TV as a Board of Supervisors meeting will ever get. Watch in the above clip, at the 2:24 mark, as Mayor Ed Lee calls John Avalos
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
SF News Supervisor John Avalos Admits To Affair With Staffer, Apologizes City Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate John Avalos went public today with an affair that he's been having with a top aide, Raquel Redondiez, SFGate reports. The affair, while inappropriate in the minds
SF News SF Arts Commission Demands $919 Chairs, Talks Smack About Staples The Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee wrapped up its negotiations regarding San Francisco's proposed $8.6 billion spending plan in record time Wednesday night. While negotiations were definitely less contentious than
SF News It's Officially Curtains For Sunday Parking Meters: No More Enforcement As Of July 1 And that's how San Francisco's brief flirtation with Sunday Parking meter enforcement ends, folks, not with a bang, but with a whimper. It was all the way back in February, 2012 when the
SF News Jane Kim Proposing 30% Affordable Housing In New Developments Supervisor Jane Kim, while open to compromises, is proposing that the city mandate a threshold of 30% below-market-rate housing in all new developments starting next year. The proposal, which we first heard about
SF News $3.75 Million Dollar Settlement In The Works For Local Musician Mowed Down By Street Sweeper Local musician Jay Korber was dragged about 41 feet by the San Francisco street sweeper that struck his as he rode his bike in December, 2012. A year and a half later, the
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News Archaic Law Limiting Arcade Games To Maybe Get Repealed [Update] Because this is San Francisco, and because we've legislated everything from the satchels you carry your beer and tampons home in to the number of Chipotles allowed in a neighborhood, there is a
SF News Board Of Supervisors Reject Bid To Hold Up Tech Shuttles In a marathon meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to reject an appeal that would have put the brakes on the city's plan to allow commuter shuttles at Muni stops
SF News SF Comedians Speak Out Against Evictions During Set At City Hall Back in the day, comedians were known to roam the city's landscape offering golden nuggets of wisdom in between fart jokes. Some comedians even made big-time names fir themselves. Luckily, buried like tulip
SF News Gypsy Taub's Nude Nuptials Scheduled For Thursday Well, this should be fun. As we discussed a couple weeks back, local nudism activist Gypsy Taub and her newfound love Jaymz Smith are planning to be wed on Thursday, in the nude,
SF News Board Of Supes Passes Two Measures Aimed At Preserving Rental Stock At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, two measures drawn up by Supervisor John Avalos aimed at increasing and preserving the city's stock of rental apartments passed unanimously on initial vote. One measure eases
SF News Supervisor Campos To Introduce Anti-Eviction Legislation Supervisor David Campos revealed over the weekend that he plans to introduce some new legislation to counteract the eviction trend. He's hoping that a new law would provide "incentives against the Ellis Act"
SF News Candace Chen Makes An Honest Man Out Of David Chiu Well, how about that. D3 Supervisor David Chiu finally—finally!—tied the proverbial knot on Saturday and married his special friend Candace Chen. Delightful. The two got hitched at a private ceremony at
SF News Van Ness To Get Speedy New Bus Line (Eventually) After what seems like years of talking and even more spent waiting for the 47-Van Ness, the San Francisco County Transit Authority and the Board of Supervisors finally cleared the way for Bus
SF News Sup. Katy Tang Not a Fan of Naughty Massage Parlors Supervisor Katy Tang, who succeeded Carmen Chu to head up District 4 in February by mayoral appointment, proposed some tougher legislation today to crack down on brothels/handjob parlors fronting as massage parlors
SF News Supervisor Wants City Parks To Have Regular Closing Hours During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Scott Wiener will propose setting regular hours for the city's 220 parks from 5 a.m. to midnight. According to the SFGate, "He says that every
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the Castro where
SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
Arts & Entertainment London Breed Is The Amanda Bynes Of S.F. Supervisors [Update] We have a new favorite crazy cannon on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And her name is London Breed. For whatever reason, Ms. Breed will only respond to a constituent with respect
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
SF News Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
