SF News Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
SF News City Attorney Sues Company Behind Workplace Posters That He Says Falsely Impersonate the Government SF City Attorney David Chiu has brought a lawsuit against a company he says is “impersonating government actors” and forcing small businesses to buy bogus workplace compliance posters and threatening $37,000 fines if they don't.
SF News City Attorney Blasts Judge’s Ruling Banning Homeless Encampment Sweeps, Says It ‘Defies Logic’ After a federal judge banned the clearing of tents and encampments in SF, City Attorney David Chiu is kindly asking the judge to “clarify” her decision, while also telling her the decision “defies logic.”
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Wins One-Year Reprieve, Gets Funding Fully Reinstated The beleaguered Laguna Honda Hospital got the best news it’s had in months Wednesday, as federal officials agreed to fully reinstate their $18 million a month in funding, and halted a forced patient transfer program that seriously risked patients’ health.
SF News Judge Rules Walgreens Can Be Held Liable For Overprescribing Opioids in SF, In Landmark Decision A huge win for City Attorney David Chiu, as a judge rules in the city’s favor and against Walgreens, who apparently prescribed more than 100 million opioid pills in San Francisco alone.
SF News SF Sues Feds For Forcing Laguna Honda Patient Transfers, Which Are Now Linked to Eight Deaths Two separate lawsuits — one from SF City Attorney David Chiu, and another from former City Attorney Louise Renne — look to claw back federal funding being denied to Laguna Honda Hospital, as the death toll among transferred patients now stands at eight.
Business & Tech DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: David Chiu is Your New San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu gets officially sworn in, more stimmy checks are coming from Sacramento, and kids ages 5-11 may be able to get their COVID-19 vaccinations as early as this week.
SF Politics It's Official: David Chiu Is SF's New City Attorney As has been widely expected for months, SF Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday that Assemblymember and former SF Supervisor David Chiu is her pick to be the next city attorney.
SF Politics David Chiu Likely to Be SF's Next City Attorney, Setting Up Race For His Assembly Seat The winds of San Francisco politics are going to strengthen in the coming weeks, with potential shakeups that will likely bring us a new assemblymember in Sacramento, and potentially a shift in power on the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Lawmakers Call For Alt-Right Group's Crissy Field Permit To Be Rescinded California lawmakers are calling on the National Park Service to rescind a permit they've issued for a gathering of alt-right figures, conservatives, and likely white nationalists at Crissy Field next weekend. The event,
SF News State Bill To Repeal Limitations On Rent Control Has Some Local Landlords Fuming San Francisco landlords were getting heated Friday in protest of a State Assembly bill that would repeal limits on rent control that have been in effect since 1995. AB 1506, at least in
SF News How Tenants Who Fight Evictions Can Land On Renter Blacklists (Even If They Win) If you, like Denise Barton and her young twin daughters, are evicted from an apartment in California, like they were from theirs in the Outer Richmond, you can fight... but she chose not
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 Day Around The Bay: Twitter CFO's DM Fail Twitter CFO means to DM, tweets instead: "I think we should buy them." Remember, always screenshot the tweet! [Buzzfeed] Google removed a homophobic/gay killing game called “Ass Hunter” from the Android store.
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 Campos Concedes To Chiu; Both Candidates Issue Gratuitous Statements David Campos made a phone call to David Chiu Thursday evening to concede the relatively close race for Assembly District 17. As Chiu wrote on Facebook, "We had a positive conversation and agreed
SF News Jane Kim's Shoes Win Everything: Observations From My Tour Of Election Victory Parties Last Night I've never been to any Election Night parties in S.F., so when a politically connected friend invited me along for a four-party tour last night to kiss a few rings, I figured
SF News Just How Many Trees Have Died For This Year's Election Mailers? Does anyone besides elderly shut-ins read election mailers? It's not possible yet to know how many millions of dollars are being wasted on all the heavy-stock mail pieces that are stuffing your mailboxes,
SF News Regarding How New York, And Dianne Feinstein, Openly Hate Airbnb Maybe you've heard, but New York City is the next frontier Airbnb is hoping to conquer, and so far that effort is not looking nearly as easy as the company's San Francisco conquest
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 Chiu Pushes For More Predictable Hours For Retail Workers by Eric Wuestewald Everyone who's worked part-time knows that the schedule is always a moving target. Mornings, nights, weekends it's all up in the air. Retail and fast-food workers have to embrace the
SF News Finally! Airbnb Will Start Collecting Taxes In S.F. Next Month After initially agreeing this summer to start collecting the same 14 percent occupancy tax as San Francisco hotels, which we told you about back in April, Airbnb says it will finally make good
SF News San Francisco Candidates' War Chests, By The Numbers Hey, maybe you heard that we have an election in San Francisco this November? With all the sturm und drang over ballot measures on taxing sodas, raising the minimum wage and protecting drivers,
SF News Mayor Lee's Sharing Economy Working Group Is Hardly Working As mayor during a particularly tumultuous time in the city's growth, Ed Lee has been a leader in calling for task forces and working groups to integrate our local government with the ever-changing
