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
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
