SF News Will New District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Face An Immediate Special Election This Year? It's a longshot and a rumor at this point, but mayoral appointee Jeff Sheehy, who today is attending his first Board of Supervisors meeting as District 8 supervisor, could face some immediate opposition
SF News Mayor Lee Announces New District 8 Supe, Openly HIV-Positive Glen Park Resident Jeff Sheehy As was expected, Mayor Lee has filled outgoing Supervisor Scott Wiener's seat on the Board of Supervisors unofficially the "gay seat" on the board since it was originally held by Harvey Milk with
SF News Supervisor John Avalos Not Afraid To Burn Bridges On His Way Out Of Casterly Rock We've all compared real-life events to those in fiction — hell, I did it today, when I mentioned an episode of a TV show that a BART collision evoked. But at what point does
SF News $91K Bronze Gavin Newsom Bust Headed For City Hall Fans of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom's luscious mane have cause to celebrate today, as the former San Francisco Mayor is to be immortalized at City Hall in the form of a bronze bust.
SF News John Avalos Likens Current Board Of Supervisors Intrigue To 'Game Of Thrones' If you enjoy the chess game of Supervisorial politics in City Hall, you're maybe waiting with bated breath to find out who will get picked to replace Scott Wiener in District 8, and
SF News District 8 Will Likely Be Without A Supervisor Until January Supervisor Scott Wiener narrowly beat out Supervisor Jane Kim in his effort to become District 11's next state Senator. As he will be vacating his current role of San Francisco District 8 supervisor,
SF News Twitter Tax Break And Proposed Free City College On Chopping Block Following Trump's Win San Francisco's liberal bubble is potentially facing serious strains under the looming presidency of Donald Trump. As we noted earlier, and as the Chronicle reports again, if the president-elect follows through on his
SF News City Hall Office Was Vandalized With Debris, Fecal Matter In Pre-Election S***storm On the morning of November 7, the Monday before Election Day, employees of the San Francisco Assessor-Recorder's office were greeted at their City Hall quarters by "debris and suspected fecal matter," the Examiner
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 the very office to
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 '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 innocuously named rally: "We
SF News Local Proposition Results: Tent Ban, Soda Tax Pass, Youth Voting, Public Advocate Fail, And Much, Much More San Franciscans are reminded this morning that ours is a city in a bubble, and not just the real estate/tech one usually invoked here, but a bubble of the liberal kind we
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 Small Group Stages One-Day 'Tent-In' Outside City Hall To Protest Treatment Of Homeless, Encampments Demonstrators Pitch Tents Outside San Francisco City Hall « CBS ... - CBS Local https://t.co/Y1XyTA96bZ— San Francisco (@SanFrancisco361) October 18, 2016 A group going by the moniker Civil Disgrace, led by Mission
SF News Today's The Last Day To Decline SF's Printed, 300-Page Voter Info Pamphlet The alphabet-busting roster of San Francisco ballot propositions voters will decide on November 8 have made for a massive information pamphlet, the booklet every registered voter will receive by mail in advance of
SF News Peskin Says 'Political Interference' Contributed To Millennium Tower Construction Decision The plot thickens. In a press conference this afternoon picked up by the Business Times, Supervisor Aaron Peskin spoke to the ongoing controversy surrounding the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower and suggested that
SF News SF's Best-Paid City Workers Hit New Income Highs As opposed to the calendar year that we all recognize as beginning on January 1, San Francisco's fiscal year begins anew on July 1 of every year. And though the revelry that one
SF News San Francisco's City Worker Salaries, By The Numbers You already know that San Francisco has a $9.6 billion budget — "more than the budgets of 13 states and scores of countries around the world," the Chron notes. As reported earlier this
SF News Slain Cyclist's Family Argues City Should Stop Removing Memorials When a cyclist dies on the streets of San Francisco, the tragedy is often memorialized by a ghost bike. You've likely seen the all-white bikes chained to various poles or signs near the
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 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 Family Of Homeless Man Killed By SFPD Move To File Suit Against City The family of Luis Gongora, the homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, is preparing to file a civil suit against the city. KRON4 reports that civil rights
SF News As Many As 10,000 Attend Castro Rally, March To City Hall In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims Thousands of people people turned out last night at a Castro District vigil to honor those killed and injured in Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, an event that turned to a
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center Jumbotron To Broadcast Warriors Game Four Friday Yes, Game Three of the NBA finals was a gut-wrenching, scene, a 30-point loss for the Warriors in the unfriendly climate of Cleveland. But though most of us can't hop a plane to
SF News Mayor Ups Proposed Budget To $9.6 Billion With Emphasis On Cleanliness, Homelessness Spending For the fiscal year starting on July 1, Mayor Lee has proposed that San Francisco's budget increase, mostly on the back of property taxes, by around $700 million to reach $9.6 billion.
