SF News Recall Ed Lee Campaign Ends Not With A Bang But A Whimper Oh, the halcyon days when certain San Franciscans thought the biggest threat to their happiness was Mayor Ed Lee. But those days are gone, and with them, it appears, are any hope of
SF News Mayor Never Convened Promised Working Group On Airbnb Regulations A working group to propose improved Airbnb regulations that Mayor Lee promised to set up by the end of February 2017 when he vetoed the 60-day rental cap is nowhere to be found,
SF News SUV Slams Into Cars Near SF City Hall After Driver Is Shot In Head A SUV belonging to a driver who police say was fatally shot in the head smashed into multiple parked cars and caused a tree to topple before coming to a stop near San
SF News Comfort Women Memorial Approved Despite Japanese Disinformation Email Campaign Earlier this week, and as expected, the San Francisco Arts Commission unanimously approved a final inscription for a memorial to the women who were sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army during WWII,
SF News Supervisor Can Only Be A 'Good Dad' If San Francisco Gives Him Free Parking Can one be a good husband or father in San Francisco if one 1) Does not own a car 2) Has to pay for parking? Apparently not, if the words of one of
SF News Bamboo Lanterns Light Up Civic Center For Lunar New Year Although the sixteen 20-foot bamboo lanterns that now stand outside Civic Center in an art installation called "Peace All Year Round" will last only through March, the spirit of the artist's message, we
SF News Mark Leno Pretty Definitely Running For Mayor In 2019 We've been teased with this before, but this time it looks like recently termed-out state senator Mark Leno is almost certainly going to be a top candidate for San Francisco Mayor just as
SF News Potential Successors To Mayor Ed Lee 'Saddling Up' For a few glorious days in early November, political wonks mulled a possible successor for current San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee after he was mentioned as a possible cabinet member for Hilary Clinton,
SF News Head Of SF's Police Commission Resigns, Will Be Lawyer For Sheriff's Department The embattled president of the San Francisco Police Commission surprised police reformers Tuesday, when she announced that she was quitting the gig for a job with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Suzy Loftus,
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
