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.
SF News Candidate For D11 Supervisor Proposes Abolishing The SFPD San Francisco politics are at best unusual, and at worst totally bonkers in a way virtually no other US city could understand. We are reminded of this again today following a Chronicle editorial
SF News Can SF Developers Afford 25 Percent Affordability? City Controller Says No, Others Still Say Yes In a report that is sure to spark debate for the coming months ahead of the November election, City Controller Ben Rosenfield has completed a feasibility analysis requested by the Board of Supervisors
SF News 'Tech Tax' Dies After Supervisor Farrell Associates It With Donald Trump The controversial "tech tax" is dead for the time being, with a 2-to-1 vote yesterday by the Board of Supervisors’ budget committee meaning the measure will not be sent to the full board
SF News Intern For London Breed Beefs With Tourist Complaining About Litter The office of the president of the Board of Supervisors got into it with a tourist last week, reaffirming the old adage that only San Franciscans can talk trash about San Francisco. It
SF News 395-Unit Potrero Development Approved After Supervisor's (Joking) Request For Bribe The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve what will be one of the largest housing developments to grace the Portrero Hill neighborhood. The Business Times reports that the 9-to-1 vote in favor
SF News Citing Trump, Supervisors Approve Ballot Measure To Let Non-Citizens Vote For School Board In 2004 and 2010, San Franciscans voted on ballot measures that would have extended the right to vote in school board elections to non-citizens. The thinking: parents and caregivers of SF children who
SF News Airbnb Again At The Center Of Political Play This Election Year As Supervisors Fast-Track Amendments David Campos has built much of his political career on loud calls to preserve housing stock and combat gentrification, and as he approaches the end of his final term as District 9 Supervisor,
SF News Former Mayors Jordan, Feinstein, Brown, And Newsom Warn Against Creation Of Public Advocate Position Former mayors of San Francisco Dianne Feinstien, Frank Jordan, Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom have joined forces in opposition to the creation of a new position that might sap the powers of the
SF News Rose Pak Back At Work: Protesting Against Lee Recall, Angling To Get Cindy Wu On Board Of Supes If you're into the intrigue that happens at City Hall especially where Chinatown power player Rose Pak is concerned, then get this: You know how Pak had her whole falling out with Ed
SF News Supes Poised To Open Door For 30,000 More SF Apartments...If Landlords Bother To Build Though much ink has been spilled on the increasingly-divided nature of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, two of the Supes who are in frequent opposition came together late Monday, agreeing on legislation that,
SF News Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure Just two months ago, with competing proposed housing density bonuses being debated by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lee, it appeared as if no progress might get made in the effort to
SF News City Revises 'Airbnb Law' Additions To Avoid Airbnb Suing Them The Board of Supervisors Tuesday moved to revise the language of some new additions to the so-called 'Airbnb Law' that would fine the company $1,000 per day per illegal unit listed on
SF News Supes Vote To Make City College Free A proposal floated by Supervisor and state senatorial candidate Jane Kim back in April to make tuition at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) which it was up until the early 1980's passed
SF News Allegedly Drunk SFFD Firefighter Who Crashed Firetruck Into Motorcyclist Could Cost City $5M A crash involving an allegedly drunk SFFD firefighter and a motorcyclist could end up costing the city almost $5,000,000, reports the Examiner. While the settlement is not final, the paper reports
SF News SF Shoot For <i>Sense8</i> Hit With Sanctions Over Public Park Nudity Other than the occasional nude march and rally, most San Franciscans have settled into Supervisor Scott Wiener's three-year-old ban on exposed flesh without too much grumbling, but now a location scout who's worked
