SF News Katy Tang Elected Interim President of Board Of Supes Despite an eleventh-hour letter (noted here in the Chron) from former Supervisors Quentin Kopp, Harry Britt, Tom Ammiano, Matt Gonzalez and Aaron Peskin that urged the current board not to elect their next
SF News Mild Intrigue Surrounds Mayor's Possible Appointment To David Chiu's Board Seat, Board President Vote Those who follow every moderate-liberal-vs-progressive chess move in S.F.'s political landscape should probably find themselves a more compelling hobby. But if you are one of those people, the coming weeks should
SF News SF's Soda And Property Flipper Tax Measures Fail, Minimum Wage Increase Triumphs San Francisco made it through nearly half the alphabet, we had so many propositions to vote on this year. How did your pet issues do? WINNER: Local Measure A - San Francisco Transportation
SF News Campos vs. Chiu: Progressives Raising Progressively More Campaign Money It’s ‘commie vs. commie’ in the Nov. 4 Assembly race of David Chiu vs. David Campos, a rematch of the exact same candidates you chose between in this past June’s primary
SF News Driver Of One Of Those 'Cable Cars' On Wheels Strikes And Kills Woman Staff member of the city Controller's office was just run over by a tourist trolley in front of City Hall. pic.twitter.com/1S3Y1v0Y2U— Heather Knight (@hknightsf) October 23, 2014 The driver of
SF News So Who's Going To Run Against Ed Lee? I know, I know, the November, 2014 election isn't even here yet, and here we are talking about 2015's race! Blame the Chron's Heather Knight who, in a slyly nasty* piece posted Saturday,
SF News More On The Escalating Tensions Between Transbay Developers And City Hall This all may be much ado about nothing in the end because it's in everyone's best interest to resolve this dispute quickly and no one really wants a lawsuit but tensions remain high
SF News President Obama To Hit SF City Hall In October For Thousand-Dollar Reception Want to rub shoulders with people who want to rub shoulders with the president? If you've got (at least) $1000, then we sure do have a great event for you! According to an
SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
SF News SF Arts Commission Demands $919 Chairs, Talks Smack About Staples The Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee wrapped up its negotiations regarding San Francisco's proposed $8.6 billion spending plan in record time Wednesday night. While negotiations were definitely less contentious than
SF News Mayor Lee's San Francisco Budget Proposal By The Numbers On Monday, SF Mayor Ed Lee presented his proposed two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2014-15 and 2015-16. It now heads to the Board of Supervisors for their approval (or lack thereof). Here
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News Breaking: Shots Fired Outside S.F. City Hall Just before 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon, San Francisco Police responded to reports of shots fired outside of City Hall at McAllister Street and Van Ness Avenue. SFPD units on scene at McAllister
SF News San Francisco's World Famous Crooked Street Might Close Thought the debate regarding which street in San Francisco is the crookedest—some say Lombard, some say Vermont, some say Carlton B Goodlett (because City Hall, ha ha ha)—the twisty stretch of
SF News San Francisco's Homeless Support By The Numbers $167,000,000: What San Francisco spends per year on services for homeless people (described by the Chronicle as people "on the streets, in a shelter or in supportive housing") $458,000: What
SF News San Francisco's Jet-Setting Mayor's Travel Expenses Close In On Six Figures It's good being mayor of San Francisco! Sure, there's lots of boring meetings, and you have to work on the weekends sometimes, but there are perks—perks like the over $95,000 of
SF News SF Comedians Speak Out Against Evictions During Set At City Hall Back in the day, comedians were known to roam the city's landscape offering golden nuggets of wisdom in between fart jokes. Some comedians even made big-time names fir themselves. Luckily, buried like tulip
SF News SF City Workers Rake In Fabulous Annual Salaries Forget Tweetooglebook. The real money can be found working for the city of San Francisco—specifically, the San Francisco Fire Department. Why? Overtime. According to Matier & Ross, "more than 700 San Francisco
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew: Back From Jail, But For How Long? Though disgraced former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew is home from federal prison (where he reportedly taught yoga; the fun with this guy never ends), he's supposed to head back to county jail.
SF News Another Pedestrian Down: SUV Hit-Run In Front Of City Hall In yet another incident of driver-on-pedestrian violence, an SUV driver rolling down Van Ness Avenue early this morning struck and injured a man in his 50s at a crosswalk in front of City
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deviled Egg News: Willie Brown Is Insane Former San Francisco Mayor turned lunatic Willie Brown stopped by Wayfare Tavern recently. Much to his dropped jaw's horror, the downtown restaurant no longer serves the deviled eggs Mr. Brown so desperately, so
Arts & Entertainment PHOTO: S.F. City Hall Shows Its 49ers Pride In honor of making the 49ers making the playoffs, San Francisco City Hall dons red and yellow (gold?) hues. Fancy. (Photo by Erik Wilson.)
SF News Twitter Rents Out S.F. City Hall For Holiday Party Listening to @dickc toasting to 2013. Proud of Twitter! #celebrate pic.twitter.com/kZdDx57a67— Jessica Verrilli (@jess) December 20, 2013 As if there wasn't already growing feeling that the Mayor was secretly in
