SF News Will New District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Face An Immediate Special Election This Year? It's a longshot and a rumor at this point, but mayoral appointee Jeff Sheehy, who today is attending his first Board of Supervisors meeting as District 8 supervisor, could face some immediate opposition
SF News Mayor Lee Announces New District 8 Supe, Openly HIV-Positive Glen Park Resident Jeff Sheehy As was expected, Mayor Lee has filled outgoing Supervisor Scott Wiener's seat on the Board of Supervisors unofficially the "gay seat" on the board since it was originally held by Harvey Milk with
SF News State Supreme Court Will Hear Case That Could Decide Future Of Local 5G Networks And Laws About City Aesthetics Do cities in California have the right to adopt ordinances for aesthetic reasons? The answer to that question regarding the definition of public use will be decided by the state Supreme Court, who
SF News Newly Appointed Rec And Parks Commissioner Resigns Days After Being Sworn In Jason Chan's time as a commissioner with the Rec and Parks Department was short and not particularly sweet. The Chronicle reports that the former Ed Lee campaign worker resigned from his post mere
SF News John Avalos Likens Current Board Of Supervisors Intrigue To 'Game Of Thrones' If you enjoy the chess game of Supervisorial politics in City Hall, you're maybe waiting with bated breath to find out who will get picked to replace Scott Wiener in District 8, and
SF News District 8 Will Likely Be Without A Supervisor Until January Supervisor Scott Wiener narrowly beat out Supervisor Jane Kim in his effort to become District 11's next state Senator. As he will be vacating his current role of San Francisco District 8 supervisor,
SF News Twitter Tax Break And Proposed Free City College On Chopping Block Following Trump's Win San Francisco's liberal bubble is potentially facing serious strains under the looming presidency of Donald Trump. As we noted earlier, and as the Chronicle reports again, if the president-elect follows through on his
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sandra Lee Fewer Officially Wins District 1 Supervisor Race Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A Stanford study reveals that most students don’t
SF News Typically Attuned To Difference, Board Of Supervisors Focuses On Similarities In Wake Of Democalypse Hillary Ronen's successful election to the Board of Supervisors on November 8 wasn't just overshadowed by the unexpected election of Donald Trump. In her mind, the presidential election changed the very office to
SF News SF Supervisors' Resolution: Climate Change Is Real, LGBT Rights Can't Change, And Black Lives Matter In a symbolic but powerful resolution that might even make our neighbors in far-left Berkeley a bit envious, the Board of Supervisors took time on Tuesday to pass a resolution thoroughly affirming the
SF News Who Will Replace Scott Wiener On the Board Of Supervisors? With District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener headed off to Sacramento, the Board of Supervisors is soon to be Wiener-less. Who will fill the gaping void on that governing body for the City and
SF News 'We Will Always Be San Francisco,' Mayor Declares At Unity Gathering Affirming Sanctuary City Policy San Francisco's often querulous political leadership was singing "Kumbaya" today at City Hall, with the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and others presenting a united liberal front at an innocuously named rally: "We
SF News SFMTA Issues Final Report On Proposed Tech-Shuttle Hubs Ahead of a November 15 SFMTA Board of Directors meeting to discuss the predicted effects of reducing the number of tech-shuttles stops across the city and changing the existing model to that of
SF News This Year's SF District Supervisor Races, Explained If you live in one of the five odd-numbered supervisor districts in San Francisco where the seat is up for election in 2016, you'll find in at least a couple of those districts
SF News Outside Spending In This Year's Supervisor Races Has Reached Historic Levels This year's presidential campaign isn't the only one flaunting historical precedent. Right here on the local level, the competition for seats on the Board of Supervisors has drawn in huge amounts of outside
SF News Bay Area Whistleblower Told Wells Fargo CEO About Bogus Account Problem In 2007 A letter has emerged, addressed to former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in September 2007, detailing the widespread practice of creating fraudulent bank and credit card accounts in order to meet sales quotas
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News Supervisor Proposes Law To Guarantee Tenants' Choice Of Internet Provider, Ending AT&T/Comcast Duopoly The choice between AT&T and Comcast being little choice at all, Supervisor Mark Farrell plans to introduce legislation today that would ensure all San Franciscans access to Monkeybrains/Webpass/what have
SF News Protesters Urge SFMTA Not To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak As she was in life, Rose Pak is controversial even in death. The local political power-broker passed away in September at the age of 68, and was quickly mourned and honored by the
SF News SF Supervisors' Threat To Annex Brisbane Seems To Scare City Into Building Housing Negotiating tactic, empty threat, or real plan, the idea floated last week that San Francisco might annex our southern neighbor city of Brisbane is now moot (if it ever wasn't). #Brisbannex, as surely
SF News Record Company Dings Drag Queens Supporting Scott Wiener For Use Of Katy Perry Song Did the use of Katy Perry's "Firework" in a video plug for Scott Wiener just explode in the Supervisor's face? As the politician campaigns against Jane Kim for a state senate seat in
SF News 'Dirty' Politics: How The City's Janitors Could Swing The Board Of Supes' Balance of Power Nobody likes a boring election. (Plenty of people don’t like allegedly exciting elections, either, so there’s that.) People like to know their vote matter and that, in turn, they matter, even
SF News Peskin At Millennium Tower Hearing: 'This Isn't Somebody's Leaking Toilet. This Is a Big Deal.' Supervisor Peskin grills city officials about Millennium-"this isn't somebody's leaking toilet-this is a big deal" pic.twitter.com/E167qhiHAY— carolyn tyler (@ctylerabc7) September 22, 2016 The political piece of the Millennium Tower
SF News Van Ness BRT Threatened By Preservationists Who Want To Keep Historic Streetlamps, Poles The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is facing what appears to be an end run opposition by preservationists and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, just ahead what should be the project's groundbreaking this
SF News Supervisor London Breed Calls Progressive Website 48 Hills A 'Bulls**t A** Blog' When London Breed became Board of Supervisors President last year, besting David Campos for the top spot, her election was interpreted as a victory for the board's so-called moderates over its so-called progressives.
