SF News Meet Joel Engardio: A Supervisor Candidate With A Thing For Owls From way out in Forest Knolls (which, like Sherwood Forest, is one of those fairytale neighborhoods that sounds like it was named by six-year-olds) we learn of a new candidate running for the
SF News S.F. Board Of Supervisors To Waste Time Discussing Limited Grammy Categories Now this is rich: Item 40 on the agenda for today's Board of Supervisors meeting [PDF warning], is a non-binding resolution that would formally declare the San Francisco city government's displeasure with the
SF News Redistricting Could Force Supervisors To Actually Live In The Neighborhoods They Represent As San Francisco redraws the borders of the neighborhood districts represented by our 11 city supervisors, a few members of the Board might want to start trawling Craigslist for new apartments. David Chiu,
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Investigated In Alleged Domestic Abuse Incident Sheriff-elect Ross Mirkarimi, who's being sworn in to his new post Sunday, is currently under investigation by the SFPD after an incident of alleged domestic abuse involving his wife over New Year's weekend.
SF News It Has Been A Whole Year Since That Former S.F. Supervisor Promised To Haunt City Hall Remember way back in January 2011, when the promise of a mayor with less exciting hair and a refreshed lineup at the Board of Supervisors had every political wonk in town excited for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink War Between Mediocre Downtown Lunch Spots And Food Trucks Rages On If you're a Financial District worker who has been dying a slow death of salad and bland soup consumption ever since you started working down there, you were probably thrilled to find fun
SF News Wiener Wants To Legislate Dog Walking Now Supervisor Scott Wiener has taken the bold step of authoring some new legislation that will make it illegal for dog walkers in San Francisco to walk more than seven pooches at a time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soon You May Pay Fifty Cents Every Time You Say 'Double-Bag It' The Board of Supervisors will be taking a vote today about a long-discussed proposal to charge customers a fee for every bag they take from a grocery store or retail outlet. Ross Mirkarimi
SF News Supervisors to Propose Charter Amendment Ending Ranked-Choice Voting [Updated] On the day of San Francisco's first ranked-choice mayoral election, Supervisors Elsbernd and Farrell are set to propose a new charter amendment that would eliminate the new voting system altogether. As first year
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday October 5th, 2011 Just when we were on a roll with sub-three hour meetings, the Board had to go and put a teeth-gnashing public hearing on youth housing smack in the middle of yesterday's agenda. Final
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Eric Mar might be saving birds from those tall shiny glass-and-steel deathtraps we humans have erected, but not even bird-safe building legislation can keep us from wanting to slam our heads against the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, September 21, 2011 While we love the tortue of an eight-hour Supervisors meeting as much as the next person (read: not very much!), we're happy to see these meetings have become a lot snappier in the
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for September 13th 2011 If the nonstop whacky antics at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting are any indication, we're looking at what could be an exciting fall in City Hall. By which we mean, no one appeared
Arts & Entertainment Board Of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings: September 5th, 2011 Coming to you late this week due to a few technical difficulties with the post-recess SFGovTV feed, we now return to our regularly scheduled Weekly Power Rankings. This week, just gettin' back in
SF News SFGate Commenters Up In Arms Over David Chiu's $700,000 Wheelchair Ramp The most popular story on the 'Gate right now? That would be Matier and Ross's column about the wheelchair ramp to the Board President's chair, currently being constructed in the Board of Supervisors
SF News S.F. Supervisors Chiu, Kim, and Mar Heading to Burning Man Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim will voyage to the annual art and drug festival in the Nevada desert known as Burning Man. For whatever reason, they plan on spending only 24 hours
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Yesterday's meeting was our last day in the People's Chambers for awhile. With the Board's 5-week summer recess looming the meeting only ran 3 hours long. And in typical last-day-of-school fashion, many zany
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for August 2nd, 2011 Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting is the last before the gang takes a month-long recess. It's like the last day of school before summer! Only with less signing of yearbooks and more passing
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Getting right down to the big issues this week (because SFGovTV's footage of yesterday's meeting inexplicably cuts off the first 45 minutes of administrative items), let's talk about those Muni bus wraps. The
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for July 26th, 2011 Cell Phone radiation disclosures, vintage signage preservation, car share vehicles taking up street parking, a ballot measure for street improvement funds and a fight over formula retail pet stores in the Richmond. The
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Thursday, July 21, 2011 Tuesday's meeting was all over the board (pun intended?). So, appropriately enough, current points co-leader in these Weekly Power Rankings Sean Elsbernd was all over the chambers. The outerlands supe was probably just
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for July 19th, 2011 No Ed Lee cameos this week, but Pension Reform and the Charter Amendment that will allow the board to amend or repeal ballot measures both get a public hearing. And there's a tiny
SF News Blame the Board of Supervisors for Fatal Octavia Street Crash? We thought it a little odd that the day after the tragic accident at Octavia and Oak that took the life of a UCSF professor Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi made sure to praise Octavia
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 As you might have guessed by now, Mayor Lee didn't bring any major surprises with him to Question Time yesterday. Batting around questions like "How will you stimulate the economy?" (from Farrell) and
SF News S.F. to Get All Kindly About Felons Now; Cue Fox News' Special Report OK, so, to be clear, we're all for having criminals do their time, regret their crimes, and we believe that many of them can be rehabilitated and return to society as respectable citizens
