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
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for July 12th, 2011 Temporary Mayor Ed Lee will be joining us at 2 p.m. for his regularly scheduled appearance before the board tomorrow, so expect the usual round of softball questions to kick off the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Yesterday's brief meeting of the kumbaya board was either incredibly efficient or just a lazy way to slouch towards next week's holiday recess, depending on how desperate you are to know whether those
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for June 28th, 2011 After last week saw some tension rising between Supervisors Mirkarimi and Elsbernd, we're kind of excited to see if anyone gets punched in the throat at tomorrow's meeting. Elsbernd snubbing Mirkarimi on the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Debate! Intrigue! Public Hearings! Jane Kim! Recess! Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting had just about everything one could want from a meeting that ran just a hair over five and a half hours.
SF News Jane Kim, Supervisors, Quietly Trying to Rewrite Care Not Cash A ballot measure spearheaded by District 6's Jane Kim was "quietly" added to the November ballot yesterday, setting the stage for the first revision -- and arguable dismantling -- of Gavin Newsom's controversial
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for June 21st, 2011 Tomorrow's agenda is deceptively long thanks to a slew of budget-related items (items 6-12) and Memorandums of Understanding between the City and various unions or professional associations (items 13-36). We wouldn't be surprised
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Yesterday's Board meeting started off with some chuckles from the board and more than one supervisor showed up late for Question Time with Mayor Lee. How rude! Here, from SFGovTV footage, we see
SF News San Francisco to Ban Goldfish? R&B duo Matier & Ross have word that the San Francisco Animal Control Commission suggests a citywide ban on goldfish sales. While buying pets from puppy and kittens mills are a
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for June 14th, 2011 It's that time of the month again. Time for our regular visit from Uncle Ed Lee who will discuss policy questions from supervisors in the odd numbered districts. With a few administrative items
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 8th 2011 Eight hours and forty-two minutes. That's how long yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting ran. In terms of man-hours, that pretty much negates any time off the supes might have taken last week. With
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for June 7th, 2011 Right back in to the swing of things after last week's recess, and we've got some looming unfinished business before the board: The results of CEQA's environmental study on Treasure Island are ready
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings: Recess Edition So the Board of Supervisors had the day off from their regular Tuesday meeting yesterday. Contrary to our wildest hopes and dreams, SFGovTV did not, in fact, televise a Post-Memorial Day intramural two-on-two
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 25th 2011 Yesterday's board of supervisors meeting was Sean Elsbernd's time to shine. Because if there are two things Elsbernd gets excited it's Zanze's cheesecake and demolishing some postwar garden court apartments to make room
SF News Board of Supervisors Votes to Ban Yellow Pages (Sort Of) In what will hopefully be the final update on the Yellow Pages ban until it actually takes effect in 2012, the Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 in favor of David Chiu's legislation this
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for May 17, 2011 Yikes, we've got 53 items on the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting. That's about twice as many items as last week's meeting that clocked in at nearly five hours long after
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 11th 2011 As promised, this week's Board of Supervisors meeting opened with an appearance from Temporary Mayor Ed Lee for Mayor Question Time. The best part of Mayor Question Time is that all of the
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for May 10, 2011 Two things are back on the agenda for tomorrow's board meeting: The ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages and Temporary Mayor Ed Lee's monthly book report. Since we can hardly contain the wave of
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 4th 2011 Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting wasn't exactly exciting. There was barely any discussion and the supes continue to insist on not throwing chairs at each other. We're beginning to wonder why we thought
