SF News Norman Yee Barely Leads In Historically Close D7 Race A week after election day, the race for the next Supervisor in the Parkside-to-Lakeside District 7 is down to a 33 vote lead for school board president and photoshopper of questionable
SF News Will London Breed Be the New Chris Daly? We don't know a lot about London Breed beyond the fact that she was a Fire Commissioner, she runs the African American Art and Culture Complex, and she was allegedly pissed
SF News More D5 Drama: Eliana Lopez Weighs In On 'Olague Bullies' In case you haven't heard, about 900 people are running for Supervisor in District 5, the district recently supervised by Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and temporarily covered the past eleven months by
SF News D5 Candidate Julian Davis Gets Another Accusation Leveled Against Him [Updated] It seems a couple of women who've come in contact with District 5 supervisor candidate Julian Davis don't much care for his style of alleged sexual advances. Following on
SF News He's The Sheriff: Ross Mirkarimi To Keep Job Despite a domestic-abuse conviction, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi gets to keep his job after the board of Supervisors refused allow Mayor Ed Lee to use official misconduct charges to get the embattled elected
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Might Lose His Job Today, Or Not The fate of suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will likely be finalized today after the Board of Supervisors meets to discuss the Ethics Commission recommendation that he be permanently removed from office. As discussed
SF News Supervisors to Consider Allowing Even Tinier Micro-Apartments At tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting there's a proposal on the docket to change the city's building code to allow for the tiniest dwelling spaces in the
SF News Supervisors Consider Ban on Overnight RV Parking You know that RV across the street that never seems to go anywhere and out of which occasionally stumbles a disheveled person? Well, Supervisor Carmen Chu wants to do something about that nonsense.
SF News Now Castro Supervisor Is Upset About Cock Rings After battling the Castro nudists who refused to put a towel down when they sat on public benches, San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has now told the Bay Area Reporter that
SF News Jane Kim: Bed Bug Warrior District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim is launching a new offensive against bed bugs, which have now become a citywide epidemic. She's introduced an ordinance that will codify several recommendations made by
SF News If Mayor Lee Loves Stop-And-Frisk So Much, Why Doesn't He Marry It? New updates today on Mayor Lee's controversial pet project, Actually, the only update is that, outside of the Mayor's office, no one seems to think exploring a stop-and-
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations, Supervisor Jane Kim, On Your First Self-Propelled Bike To Work Day For some San Francisco city officials today was just another beautiful day to ride a bike to work, but for District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim today marked her first solo expedition on Bike
SF News Supes, Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally At City Hall Over Fed Crackdown Six members of the Board of Supervisors, along with marijuana activists, dispensary owners, and representatives from George Gascon's and Dennis Herrera's offices gathered for a rally on the steps
SF News Supes Propose Change In Muni's Stroller Policy As City Insider reports, Supervisors Chiu and Elsbernd are reconsidering Muni's decades-old policy regarding strollers on the bus in an effort to keep families from fleeing the city at the
SF News Supervisors Very Concerned About Cardboard Thieves, Bottle-and-Can Scavengers Here's a problem we didn't know was a problem: recycling theft. All those little Asian ladies and various other scavengers who go around pulling bottles and cans and cardboard
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
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&
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
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
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
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.
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&