SF News Lengthy, Angry Protest Breaks Out As Frisco Five Supporters Storm City Hall Friday Following the hospitalization Friday of the hunger strikers now known as the Frisco 5, a call went out on IndyBay to their supporters, whom some are calling the Frisco 500, for a vigil
SF News Will We Be Voting To Recall Ed Lee In November? Just one year after winning reelection by a too-close-for-comfort margin, Mayor Ed Lee could be facing a recall effort this fall, if one of two alleged ballot measure proposals has any legs. The
Arts & Entertainment Hollywood To Reenact The White Night Riot (Again) Outside City Hall Tonight Just like they did eight years ago during the Milk shoot, Hollywood has returned to San Francisco to reenact the famous White Night Riot, when an army of very pissed off gay men
SF News Business Licenses For Some SF Uber And Lyft Drivers Cost Hundreds More Than Expected Many of the 37,000 or so San Francisco Uber and Lyft drivers who learned last week that they were required to have a business license to ply their trade in the city
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 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 Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To Mississippi After Anti-LGBT Bill Signed By Governor The number of US states to which San Francisco will pay for travel shrank again today, after Mayor Ed Lee banned all city-funded travel to the state of Mississippi after their governor OKed
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
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center's Giant Inflatable Rabbits To Get Round-The-Clock Security When the news broke that five giant light-up rabbits would be coming to San Francisco's Civic Center, there was discussion among the SFist staff on how long it would be before something vile
Arts & Entertainment Look For Those Giant Inflatable Rabbits At Civic Center Starting Today #Intrude @CivicCenterPlaza @#.@SFAC .@mayoredlee .@sfrecpark .@sfoewd pic.twitter.com/NdBwkOMvIi— SF Arts Commission (@SFAC) April 4, 2016 The rabbits are finally here, and they're coming for you, and you, and you. Well, sort
SF News Airbnb Reveals 20% Of SF Listings Are By Hosts Listing Multiple Homes, Vows Crackdown Airbnb has issued a mea culpa of sorts today, and a reversal of some of its previous rhetoric surrounding the issue of hosts who illegally use the platform to turn themselves into small-scale
SF News Demonstrations, Terror Attacks Blamed For SFPD's Super-Sized Super Bowl Bill Oh, the good old days, when we thought that San Francisco would only be spending about 4 million in taxpayer bucks for the Super Bowl. It appears that at least one department seriously
Arts & Entertainment Five Giant, Light-Up Rabbits Coming To Civic Center Civic Center will soon play host to a massive exterior public art project that, contrary to first impression, is about the cute and cuddly topic of the environmental destruction of our planet. A
SF News San Francisco Coyotes Called Out For Tax Evasion, Poor Voting Record During City Hall Hearing Hey, remember that City Hall hearing called by Supervisor Norman Yee over San Francisco's recent fatal attacks of domestic dogs by coyotes? Well, it happened yesterday, and resulted in one of my favorite
SF News In Wake Of Anti-LGBT Law Passage, Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To North Carolina Two days after the governor of North Carolina signed into law legislation that would eliminate protections for LGBT people and ban transgender people from using their gender-identified restrooms, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
SF News San Francisco Now Has Official Tweeter Who Gets Paid $130,000/Year Ugh. "Social Media Strategist" remains a real job, and even city governments like San Francisco think they need one. Per SF Weekly we learn that the city's Department of Technology had a job
SF News As Bay Area Reacts To Brussels Terror Attacks, Calls To Expand SFO's Security Perimeter Increase pic.twitter.com/glD95Pit0Q— SF City Hall (@SFCity_Hall) March 23, 2016 As the Bay Area continues to react to Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels, experts say that cities like San Francisco should
SF News Fatal Attacks Spur City Hall Meeting On SF's Coyote Response Plan Are coyote attacks on the rise in San Francisco? While Animal Care and Control has yet to confirm that assertion, District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee says they're spiking, and he wants city agencies
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Goes To Rio On PG&E's Dime Did you know that Mayor Ed Lee is in Brazil this week? Well, he is, on a trip bought for him by a flock of high-powered big business donors. Here's Lee's daily calendar
SF News Judge Says 'Nope' To Gag Order In City Hall Corruption Case A five-year undercover FBI probe into corruption at City Hall heretofore shrouded in secrecy may no longer be kept so quiet. While the work of the District Attorney's office and the FBI's San
SF News Mayor Refuses To Allow Likely Statewide Smoking Age Increase To Rain On Local Prohibition Parade Though buying cigarettes might soon become a 21-and-over activity for any smoking Californian, San Francisco isn't content to wait for Governor Jerry Brown to decide if he's gonna OK the package of 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 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
