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
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
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
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'
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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-
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,
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
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
