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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for May 3, 2011 We erroneously reported last week that Temporary Mayor Ed Lee would be appearing before the board tomorrow for his monthly round of softball. That is incorrect: the interim mayor will be at the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 27th 2011 The board was all giggles as Clerk Calvillo called roll to open yesterday's board meeting. We may never know what caused an outburst of Supervisor Avalos' recognizable laugh, but we
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for April 26, 2011 We still won't see Temporary Mayor Ed Lee in the People's Chambers again until next week, but with a couple of public hearings and a tricky NIMBY issue that&
SF News Inaugural Edition of Mayoral Question Time Gently Lulls Everyone to Sleep Look, we know local politics is a bore. If it were exciting we'd probably be in the middle of a revolution. Our eleven supervisors would be replaced by eleven champions chosen
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 30th Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for March 29th, 2011 Last week's Board meeting was the most boring we've had with the new class (which says a lot, because: duh, most of them are boring), but this week'
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: S.F. Board of Supervisors Host Fundraiser for Japan Have you ever wanted to have an intimate dinner with Supervisor Jane Kim? Ride your bike alongside Supervisor David Chiu? Sup with Supervisor David Campos at Moki's? Well then, head over
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for March 8, 2011 Two things happen every Tuesday in San Francisco: that air raid siren goes off when it's time to go to lunch and the Board of Supervisors meet in the People'
SF News Supervisors Will Get Question Time with Mayor Ed Lee Our current mayor will be making more appearances at Board of Supervisors meetings than our previous one thanks to that question-time ballot measure no one really cared about back in November. You&
SF News Former S.F. Supervisor's Chair, Desk Cleansed With Holy Water During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, one that featured a brand new cast of characters, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd took over the seat and desk in City Hall's legislative chambert,
SF News Watch the Special Interim Mayor Selection Meeting Live Now As Eve Batey pointed out in today's SF Appeal's daily newsletter, the SF Board of Supervisors just began their special meeting to choose an interim mayor for SF, which
misc Ace Washington Performs "Who's in Charge in Silly Hall?" We mentioned this briefly in last night's scenes from the Board of Supervisors, but here's Ace Washington's original number, which we will be calling "Who'
misc Scenes from the Interim Mayor Selection Hearings at City Hall So, we didn't get a new mayor out of today's Board of Supervisors meeting, but the afternoon wasn't a total waste. Before any of the supes could
SF News Supes Vote to Push Mayoral Succession Process to Next Week So what happened in City Hall this afternoon? Do we have a Mayor yet? The answer to that question is: No, thanks to a motion from Supervisor Maxwell, seconded by Bevan Dufty, which
SF News Supes to Vote on Interim Mayor Tomorrow. (Maybe!) Pizza Party to Follow Immediately. As we pointed out the other day, the Board of Supervisors is set to select Gavin's successor tomorrow. Technically speaking, the most important vote this board will ever make is to
SF News Newsom Vetoes Alcohol Fee Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoed the fee on alcohol, Supervisor John Avalos' plan to charge booze wholesalers to help cover the city's costs to care for dunkards. The mayor's
