SF News SF Made $2 Million Off Super Bowl 50, Supes Can't Agree If This Is Good Or Bad Well, it's here. We've finally recovered from the sturm und drang that was Super Bowl 50, and now San Francisco's City Controller has figured out how much it cost us and how much
SF News Supervisor Farrell Sues City To Erase Ethics Fine Over Dede Wilsey Campaign Contributions In 2010, Mark Farrell won his seat on the Board of Supervisors representing Pacific Heights and the Marina, District 2, by a mere 258 votes. That's Supervisorial elections for you. Previously a political
SF News Majority Of Supervisors Supports Amendment Lowering Voting Age To 16 Eight San Francisco Supervisors appear to support a charter amendment lowering the local voting age to 16, a measure to be voted on by that board next week, which if approved would send
SF News Campos Proposes Law To Fine Airbnb Directly For Unregistered SF Listings The relationship between Airbnb and San Francisco is something like the one between a difficult host and a defiant houseguest. It's... well, it's not great. In what might have signaled a détente earlier
SF News SF Might Ban Styrofoam Coolers, Packing Materials, And Beach Toys It's been nearly nine years since San Francisco banned Styrofoam coffee cups, to-go containers, after then Board of Supervisors President Aaron "I'm back" Peskin pushed forward legislation banning the use of such products
SF News San Francisco's Push To Eliminate Hunger, By The Numbers Established in 2005, San Francisco Department of Health Food Security Task Force is "charged with the responsibility of creating a city-wide plan for addressing food security." Those goals got more specific in 2013,
SF News Supervisors At Odds Over Penalizing Muni Riders Paying Cash A proposed SFMTA budget that would penalize people who use cash to purchase Muni tickets with a 25-cent surcharge has run into trouble, with two supervisors coming out in opposition, and one specifically
SF News City Hall Swag Scores, By The Numbers The Political Reform Act (aka Gov. Code sections 8100091014) requires state and local public officials to make an annual public filing that discloses their personal assets and income. San Francisco officials who miss
SF News John Avalos Seeks To Further Protect Sanctuary City Ordinance After his car was stolen, El Salvadoran national Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno went to the San Francisco Police Department to file a report. But when officers learned of a warrant for his arrest — it remains
SF News SF To Become First US City To Require 100-Percent Paid Parental Leave It's all but a done deal that the Board of Supervisors Tuesday will vote to approve a pioneering ordinance that will allow parents of both genders to receive full pay for six weeks
SF News Board Of Supes Reprimands UCSF For Firing Of Chinese-Speaking Janitors There's been a recent dustup between the Board of Supervisors and the city's second largest employer, UCSF, over what the supervisors see as unjust labor practices on the part of the university. The
SF News Supervisors Move Forward With Eviction Protection For Teachers A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee gave its seal of approval this week to legislation that would protect teachers, school employees, child caregivers, and their families from evictions during the academic year.
SF News $2.25 Million Settlement Expected For Woman Injured During Early-Morning Fall From Palace Of Fine Arts Structure #SF could pay $2.25M to woman injured at Palace of Fine Arts https://t.co/yllJUZ1BVb pic.twitter.com/KMFdL3swoE— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) March 22, 2016 San Francisco's City Attorney has recommended
SF News Supervisors Use Self-Deleting Message App To Bypass Public Records Laws Former Mayor Willie Brown once joked to a colleague, or so the New York Times writes, that the "e" in "email" stood for "evidence." Only, he probably wasn't joking. Now, in the political
SF News Battle Over Dogs In Parks Heats Up As Supervisors Pass Resolution Opposing GGNRA Rules The anti-snowy plover crusade continued this week, as the Board of Supervisors yesterday passed a resolution opposing proposed National Park Service restrictions on dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The proposed
SF News High Towing Fees Could Come Down Following Supervisors' Scrutiny Towing fees in San Francisco are some of the most wildly expensive in the nation, standing at two to three times what you might pay in any other major US city. If one
SF News Supervisor Avalos Wants To Ban Oil Extraction From Public Land That Currently Benefits SF Libraries And Parks In his 1941 will, local businessman Albert Fuhrman left the city of San Francisco 800 acres of oil land in Kern County. Since then, San Francisco has leased the land to oil companies
SF News So NOW We Have A Homelessness Crisis, Supervisor Campos Decides After seven years on the Board of Supervisors, David Campos woke up this morning and decided that San Francisco had entered a homelessness crisis. Campos' team was up early, too, calling SFist before
SF News Cigarette Buying No Longer An All-Ages Event in SF, As Supes Vote To Raise Tobacco Purchase Age To 21 We warned you back in November, and now it's official: After an unanimous vote at the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, San Francisco will soon raise the age one is allowed to purchase tobacco
SF News Supervisors Not Happy About Proposed Restrictions On Dogs In Parks #SF supervisors rally w/dog owners before presenting resolution against dog restrictions at Ocean Beach & GGNRA land pic.twitter.com/vIXchNXCrO— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) March 1, 2016 It looks like Nancy
SF News New Evidence Emerges In SFPD Shootings As Complaints Office Seeks More Authority A proposal authored by Supervisor Malia Cohen to give the Office of Citizen Complaints complete authority to investigate all police shootings is moving forward, the Examiner reports, with the Board's Rules Committee sending
SF News City Hall Gets Lazy With Board Of Supes Class Photo, Photoshops Peskin In Something mildly amusing making the rounds on Facebook this afternoon: The official Board of Supervisors class photo for 2016, the full size version of which can be found here and linked from this
SF News Former Figure Of Progressive Fear Trades SF For Las Vegas Call it Daly's Law: Every time something outrageous happens in San Francisco's City Hall, you can basically count the seconds until a member of the local commentariat mentions controversial former Supervisor Chris Daly's
SF News Shadowy Group With Alleged Lee Ties Seeks To Scare Progressives With Term Limit Amendment When once and again San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced his run to reclaim his Board seat last spring, some asked how he could do that, given that he's already served the legally-allowed
SF News Police Officers Association Spreading Petition To Repeal 'Mario Woods Day' A petition created by an anonymous individual seeks to challenge the Board of Supervisors' recent decision to declare July 22 a day in honor of Mario Woods. The petition calls the Supervisors to
