SF Politics Local Tech CEO and Political Donor Garry Tan Tweets That Some SF Supervisors Should ‘Die Slow’ In Late-Night Rant A seemingly drunken and now-deleted tweetstorm from Y Combinator CEO and political donor Garry Tan called on most of the SF Board of Supervisors to “Die slow motherf***ers,” which may be awkward for one supervisor candidate whose company funding is linked to Tan.
SF Politics Former Tech Exec Bilal Mahmood Declares He’s Taking on Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor The Elon Musk and tech-PAC wing of the local SF political scene has their man to run against District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston in November, and it's tech founder and former Assembly candidate Bilal Mahmood who just announced he's running for Preston's seat.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Approve Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Mostly Pro-Palestine Audience Goes Bananas Celebrating The SF Board of Supervisors passed that resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, and the 8-3 vote set off utter bedlam in the board’s City Hall chambers.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Keep Remote Public Comment In Place For Now, But Changes Could Be Coming The threat to end public comment by phone at City Hall meetings did not succeed at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, but a new set of public comment rules is in the works for mid-April which could somehow shorten those lengthy public comment sessions.
SF Politics Board of Supervisors Palace Intrigue: Peskin Takes Presidency as Board Ousts Walton From Top Spot If you thought last week’s Kevin McCarthy drama was nuts, wait 'til you hear about Supervisor Aaron Peskin winning the SF Board of Supervisors presidency after 17 votes, in what was either a masterful move of three-dimensional chess, or a sign of just utter dysfunction.
SF News SF Supes Approve 60-Day Cap On Rentals From Currently Unregistered Airbnb Hosts A week after a judge's ruling suggested that Airbnb's lawsuit against SF was doomed, and just days after the company announced that they might follow San Francisco's rules after all, things have gotten
SF News SF Candidate Races: Ronen Crushes Arce In D9, Other Victories Far Tighter In a post-election landscape where nearly all local victories has been eclipsed by the results of the presidential election, it might be hard to gin up the energy to care who won San
SF News Airbnb Sues SF Over Supe-Approved Fines For Scofflaw Hosts Well, friends, the gloves appear to be off. Airbnb, the San Francisco-based vacation rental company that spent over eight million dollars to convince city voters to oppose regulations for their industry, took out
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 President Chiu called this week's board meeting to order a full 15 minutes late yesterday. We'll leave it to the math geniuses to figure out how much we're paying these clowns to shoot
SF News Newsom's Attendance No Longer Required at Board of Supervisor Meetings? You know how Mayor Gavin Newsom is supposed to make a special guest appearance at the Board of Supervisors meeting? At least once a month? To listen to their complaints, demonstrate that he's
