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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
