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
SF News San Francisco's New Head Dogcatcher Was A Journalism Major Nearly seven months after the contentious dismissal of the then-head of San Francisco's Animal Care And Control department, they've found a new leader: the co-founder of a local pet daysitting business with a
SF News City Hall Power Player And Infamous SFist Sock Puppet Peter Ragone Reportedly Returning To SF Hey, do you guys remember Peter Ragone, the former communications director for then-mayor Gavin Newsom who became of figure of San Francisco fun after it was revealed that he was posting sock-puppeted, trolly
SF News Election 2015: Former Homeless Hater Fibs About Mayoral Pow-Wow, Lee's War Chest Grows And Grows President Obama might be struggling to raise dough, but I can think of one guy, a man who's facing a lot less opposition, who isn't. You guessed it! I'm talking about San Francisco
SF News Now Mayor Lee Wants A City-Run Clean Energy Program, On His Terms “If San Francisco is going to do a clean energy program, let’s do a real one,” Mayor Lee said in a statement announcing a shift in his priorities. The Chron reports that
SF News Here's How Mayor Lee Promises To Ease The Housing Crisis In His 2015 State Of The City Address This morning Mayor Lee delivered his State of the City address at the newly completed Phase 1 of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in the Bayview chosen because it's the first new
SF News London Breed, One-Time 'Amanda Bynes Of SF Supervisors,' Is Now Their President Who would have thought it? London Breed, District 5's representative for the Board of Supervisors, is now the president of the Board. That's right, the woman we dubbed "The Amanda Bynes Of S.
Arts & Entertainment Willie Brown's City Hall Lights Guessing Game "The lighting of City Hall has to be one of San Francisco’s most wonderful traditions," or so wrote Willie Brown in his Chronicle column this weekend. "It’s almost become a game
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
