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.
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Announce Finals Schedule As Local Landmarks Get Lit Up Blue And Gold For the second year in a row, our Golden State Warriors are headed to the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. They still have LeBron, but we still have Steph, plus Klay and
SF News Ethics Commission: Gascón Broke The Law In Soliciting Campaign Contributions From Staff San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón broke the law when he asked staff members to donate to his 2014 reelection campaign. So reports the Chronicle, which notes that the DA told the Ethics
SF News Effort To Recall Mayor Stalls As Department Of Elections Rejects Filing On Disputed Grounds An effort to recall Mayor Ed Lee hit a roadblock last week, as the Department of Elections told a coalition of activists working to remove the mayor from office that it will not
SF News Rose Pak Returns Following Extended Medical Stay In China A big welcome home convoy and celebratory lunch are planned today as Chinatown power broker Rose Pak lands back home at SFO from an extended stay in China these last several months. Matier
SF News Mayor Fires Police Chief Following Another Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting Following Thursday morning's SFPD shooting of an apparently unarmed 27-year-old black woman in the Bayview, Mayor Ed Lee held a late-afternoon press conference to announce that earlier today he asked SFPD Chief Greg
SF News City Hall Surveillance Video Released In Effort To Identify Protesters City officials this week released surveillance video from a May 6 protest at City Hall in support of the Frisco Five. According to NBC Bay Area, at least some of those protesters caused
SF News [Update] General Strike Begins With Morning Picket At City Hall Picketing starts at #SF city hall for #Frisco5 #Frisco500 #hungerforjusticesf genera strike pic.twitter.com/kgY4qv7LGU— Mission Local (@MLNow) May 9, 2016 A true general strike, the likes of which we haven't seen
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
