SF Politics It's Official: David Chiu Is SF's New City Attorney As has been widely expected for months, SF Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday that Assemblymember and former SF Supervisor David Chiu is her pick to be the next city attorney.
SF News San Francisco Is Suing Its Own School District In Escalating War Over Reopening San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is filing a lawsuit Wednesday against the city's school district, arguing that the district is now out of compliance with a state law directing districts to adopt a plan for reopening for in-person classes.
SF Politics Former SF Building Commission President Sued for $420k in Check Fraud Wille Brown appointee Rodrigo Santos, now in private practice, allegedly took checks made out to the DBI and hand-scrawled them to be made out to ‘RoDBIgo Santos.” A lawsuit claims he got away with it 200 times.
SF Politics City Attorney Vows Thorough, Independent Investigation Of City Contracts Linked To Nuru Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.
SF News SF Offered to Buy PG&E’s Local Power Lines for $2.5 Billion, Beleaguered Utility Turned It Down As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.
misc Rebuffed at San Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day Marriage Equality USA held an event at City Hall yesterday to get the word out about "the 1,138 federal marriage rights as well as the hundreds of state rights same sex couples
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Reportedly Resigning That's a picture taken by reader Angela of a counter-protest sign at the June 07 Ed Jew rally that says "RESIGN" in Chinese. Well, Angela -- that day is nigh: City Attorney Dennis
misc Health Care Program for the Uninsured Dealt Blow After a federal judge blocked "a key provision of a new city program providing basic health care to uninsured residents, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is scheduled to petition the Ninth Circuit Court of
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Straight Hardball Goodbye, Ed Jew's attorney Steven Gruel! The revolving door that is beleaguered former District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew's legal team spins once again, depositing the pugnacious Mr. Gruel on the street and leaving
Arts & Entertainment Dennis Herrera Drops the Hammer on the Cosco Busan Getting the Busan ready for the long journey home. Most of the patching job should be done by now. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit this morning against a host of
SF News Payback's A Whiny Brat With Chris Daly focusing on the birth of his second child (congrats, Chris and Sarah!), SF Board of Supes prez Aaron Peskin has manfully taken over the essential city function of provoking District
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Forever in the Spotlight The supernatural forces behind the Ed Jew storyline are not pleased with Halloween and earthquakes hogging all of the attention. As of today, Ed Jew officially has his fourth legal suit brought up
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me State Attorney General Jerry Edmund G. Brown gave the OK for SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera to sue Ed Jew today. A civil lawsuit like this would permanently remove Jew from office. What's
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Slumber Party The Chron has the goods on Mr. Jew's lawyers' 138-page response to City Attorney Dennis Herrera's initiation of proceedings to remove Mr. Jew from his board of supes post. In a nutshell, Tapioca
SF News Gangs Are Over (If You Want It) We've assembled a handy-dandy map of the gang zones, as well as the locations of recent gang-connected incidents. We can't help noticing that the two recent shootings in the Western addition fall outside
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Jury Duty Many were a-twitter today when Ed Jew showed up at the Hall of Justice this morning for jury duty. Apparently he received his summons at his Sunset "home" address. And apparently, he had
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Forget-Me-Nots --Matier and Ross report that it looks like everyone's going to punt to Jerry Brown to make the final decision about whether to throw Ed Jew out of office or not over the
SF News Gavin in the Clear City Attorney Dennis Herrera declined to give a comment but just told everyone to check out the report. So here it is. While the report says Gavin did nothing illegal, it did go
SF News Injunction Junction, What's Your Function? A Gang Injunction is basically a restraining-order banning any known gang members from doing any gang related activity. And that goes for everything from tagging to dance offs. While the constitutionality of injunctions
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
