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
SF News Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the tech sector (surprise!), just
SF News Shrimp Boy Fallout: DA's Office Investigating... Someone The fallout from Tuesday's court filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues as reporters have swarmed City Hall, Mayor Lee has issued multiple denials and outright dismissals of the allegations, and
SF News David Chiu Wore A Wire To Talk To Shrimp Boy Because He Feared For His Life Another detail to come out of the release yesterday of a court filing in the case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is that former Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who's now a
SF News New Filing In Shrimp Boy Case Says Mayor Ed Lee Took 'Substantial Bribes,' Learned The Game From Willie Brown A potentially damning new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court today says that, in discovery, the defense found that the prosecution had significant evidence of corruption by multiple
SF News Scott Wiener: 'Fox News Is A Fringe Propaganda Machine' "Did you hear what Scott Wiener did? He's an American hero!" a friend IMed to me today. No, the District 8 Supervisor/Senate hopeful didn't save a puppy from a burning building or
SF News The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
SF News City Hall Centennial + President Obama In SF = Big Traffic Trouble Folks hitting the road after the Warriors victory parade or before City Hall's big centennial celebration might have another issue to contend with Friday, as President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in
SF News What's Ed Saying Now? Looking Ahead, Or Not Working w @sfbos to deliver City budget that invests responsibly in residents, ensures all share in #SF’s prosperity pic.twitter.com/DjJtVLdomX— Edwin Lee (@mayoredlee) June 1, 2015 In a move that
SF News Jerry Brown Forgets To Endorse Ed Lee During Ed Lee Endorsement Speech We all forget things every once in a while, and I'm certainly not going to argue that there's necessarily shame in being forgotten. Your toothbrush, the wireless bill, to water the plants — everyone's
SF News Ed Lee's Big Bucks Donations By The Numbers Campaign finance rules limit the amount of money any one donor can give a candidate for San Francisco office. But those rules don't limit something called "behested payments," in which pols ask for,
SF News SF Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Jailed On Child Porn Charges Enrique Pearce, the man who successfully ran Jane Kim's election campaign to the Board of Supervisors, and the Run, Ed, Run campaign, was arrested last night on charges that he was in possession
SF News Big Names Throw Their Weight Behind Julie Christensen, Against Aaron Peskin Less than a month after former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin announced his intention to reclaim his old seat on the board, some of San Francisco's biggest names are out
SF News Black Lives Matter Protesters Disrupt Traffic, Shout 'Shame On You' At Malia Cohen And London Breed; Campos Compares SF Inequality With Rwanda There were multiple coordinated protests Tuesday around the country in order to keep attention on the problem of racial injustice and police shootings, including a large one in New York City that resulted
SF News Veteran Progressive Aaron Peskin Wants His Board Of Supervisors Seat Back In a move that was fully expected within politico circles, longtime supervisor of the last decade, Aaron Peskin, will be vying to return to his seat as supervisor of District 3. The move
SF News Airbnb Law Impossible To Enforce, Says Agency Tasked With Enforcement Less than two months after the controversial Airbnb-legalization ordinance took effect, the city agency that has been dealing with the registration nightmare of the city's many thousands of Airbnb hosts, the Planning Department,
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Eliana Lopez Is Doing A Comedic Play, In Spanish, About The Mirkarimi Domestic Abuse Scandal Well, who saw this coming? Venezuelan-born actress Eliana Lopez, who remains married to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and is the mother of his child, is now putting on a play, in Spanish, titled "Cuál
SF News One To Watch: BoS President London Breed Revives Pissily Deleted Twitter Account Two months after SFist wished it, it has become so: Board President and one time "Amanda Bynes of SF Supes" London Breed has returned to Twitter, years after she deleted her account in
SF News Another Multi-Million Dollar City Hall Renovation For SF: Half Taxpayer Bucks, Half Donor Dough It was 1999 when San Francisco's City Hall unveiled its controversial full-body makeover. All jeans were high-waisted, your cell phone had buttons, and the dot com bubble was busily expanding, as then-Mayor Willie
