SF News Prosecutor In City Hall Corruption Case Wants To Keep Evidence Secret As you most likely remember, ten days ago the District Attorney's Office indicted three local politicos on varying corruption and bribery related charges allegedly tied to efforts to retire Mayor Ed Lee's campaign
SF News [Update] [NSFW] Video: Topless Activists Disrupt Saturday's Anti-Abortion Rally, Get Arrested This past Saturday a group of anti-choice protesters marched on San Francisco City Hall to call attention to Friday's 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The event, called Walk For Life, drew tens
SF News [Update] Three Local Politicos, Including Keith Jackson, Indicted On Corruption Charges The District Attorney's Office made it known this morning that DA George Gascón would hold a 1:30 p.m. press conference today to announce corruption charges against an as-of-yet unnamed person or
Arts & Entertainment Why Was City Hall Blue This Weekend? Why was San Francisco's city hall bathed in blue light this weekend? No one seems to know, which I guess means we are free to speculate! (See update below!) The building's blue glow
SF News SFMTA Forgets They Need To Direct Traffic, Ups SF Taxpayers' Super Bowl Bill Remember how we told you that San Francisco was expected to spend about $4 million of taxpayer money on the Super Bowl? Well, scratch that figure! As it turns out, the good old
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Inauguration Drowned Out By 'Nonstop Chants And Protests' No one expected Ed Lee's third inauguration today to go perfectly smoothly, and we already heard this week that protesters of the December death of Mario Woods at the hands of SF Police
SF News San Francisco Will Spend Around $4 Million In Taxpayer Money On Super Bowl 50 Last month, members of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors were annoyed that city agencies didn't know how much of your tax money they would have to spend to keep things afloat during Super
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Third Inauguration Ceremony Clouded By Allegations Of Corruption, Isolation An inauguration of a city's mayor is supposed to be a time of celebration, of excitement for the future, and of pride and joy. But when you're Ed Lee, announcing your third inauguration
SF News Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts Amid $100 Million City Deficit Despite a flush local economy and real estate prices that leave locals flushed, the City of San Francisco faces a nearly $100 million budget deficit, approximately 42 percent of which comes from the
SF News Why Was City Hall Lit Up With Christmas Colors During Hanukkah? With the end of Hanukkah tonight, the Festival Of Lights officially comes to a close for 2015. And so, it is perhaps more than a little confusing that over the course of the
SF News Survey: Mayor Lee's Approval Ratings Plummet, Majority Says SF Is 'Pretty Seriously Off-Track' A survey conducted by the polling company regularly used by Ed Lee to demonstrate support for his plans and proposals has some bad news for the San Francisco Mayor: His approval ratings are
SF News Game Over, Man: Here Are The Final Numbers From SF's 2015 Election This one goes out to all my election nerd homies! Though we all know what and who won and lost in San Francisco's November 3 election, it wasn't until Thursday evening that SF's
Arts & Entertainment Video: City Hall Documentary Premieres At City Hall This Week City Hall continues to fete its centennial this year with “The People’s Palace,” a new half-hour documentary by Jim Yager. The somewhat hagiographical pic documents the world's fifth-largest dome, built in 1915
SF News Under 21? Then Forget About Buying Smokes In SF, Says Supe Though an effort to raise California's smoking age to 21 stalled last month in the state Assembly, that won't stop a couple San Francisco lawmakers from trying to impose tighter regulations for young
SF News [Update] Vigil For Paris Attacks Held Sunday At City Hall A vigil to honor those killed in the Paris attacks on Friday night happened at 3 p.m. Sunday in front of City Hall, which lit up in tribute of the French flag's
SF News In Solidarity With Paris, SF City Hall Lit Up Blue, White and Red; SFPD On 'Heightened Alert' 🇫🇷 @SFCity_Hall, whose design was inspired by Les Invalides in #Paris, is lit up in France's colors tonight. pic.twitter.com/8DAMFXt250— John McMurtrie (@McMurtrieSF) November 14, 2015 San Francisco's City Hall, the
SF News Ed Lee Controlled By Shadow Mayor Steve Kawa, Claims Rose Pak Mayor Ed Lee won reelection on Tuesday, but who is really in charge at City Hall? Famed (and feared) powerbroker Rose Pak asserted this week that the Mayor is in fact controlled by
SF News Is Mayor Peskin Next? Even though he won last night, lots of people are saying that Ed Lee symbolically lost. And it's certainly the case that despite low voter turnout, Tuesday's election showed that a large swath
SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF News <i>Times</i> Weighs In On SF's Crazy Local Election; Yes On F People Vow To Bring Measure Back In 2016 As SFist has been trying to tell anyone who'll listen, despite the fact that we aren't even reelecting Nancy Pelosi in this one and the mayor pretty much has it in the bag,
SF News New Law Will Allow Courts To Compel Treatment Of Mentally Ill San Franciscans Thirteen years after passage at the state level, a law allowing for the compelled treatment of certain mentally ill individuals will take effect in San Francisco next Monday. Implementation of Laura's Law, as
SF News Bill O'Reilly Wants To Send Supervisor Malia Cohen To Jail On last night's The O'Reilly Factor, the eponymous host lashed out at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for voting to kill a proposed ordinance that would have impacted the city's status as
SF News San Francisco Supes Celebrate Closure Of City's Last Gun Shop As the clock ticks down on San Francisco's last gun shop, there's at least one group vocally applauding the business' closure: Members of the SF Board of Supervisors. Of course, you already know
SF News The Incredibly Close And Shockingly Expensive Peskin/Christensen Race, By The Numbers Fans and hate-watchers of local politics have been following the race for District 3 supervisor since March, when former D3 Supe Aaron Peskin announced that he wanted to re-occupy the seat currently held
SF News Video: Mayor Ed Lee's Vision For San Francisco Hey, what are you up to for the next hour and seven minutes? Want to watch Mayor Ed Lee face the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board? Then do I have a video for