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
SF News Chiu's AirBnB Compromise Goes Before Supes Today At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu's new proposed law will go to a vote, solidifying AirBnB as a legit business, but also keeping too much of San Francisco's precious housing stock
SF News Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax In San Francisco In a move that will bring in millions of tax revenue for the city, Airbnb has agreed to collect the same 14 percent hotel tax as San Francisco hotels, starting this summer. San
SF News Supe Chiu Calls Campos Out On Record Against Domestic Violence When the difficult topic of domestic violence victims came up last year in a vote, I stood with the victims while David Campos did not. [David Chiu, 2/13/14] As the battle
SF News Ed Lee's Name Floated As Potential Ambassador To China Mayor Ed Lee is now rumored to be a possible candidate to replace outgoing U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, who just announced his resignation. Locke's resignation was apparently unexpected, and just
SF News Candace Chen Makes An Honest Man Out Of David Chiu Well, how about that. D3 Supervisor David Chiu finally—finally!—tied the proverbial knot on Saturday and married his special friend Candace Chen. Delightful. The two got hitched at a private ceremony at
SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
SF News Chiu Re-Elected to Third Term as President of the Board of Supes At yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu was once again chosen as President of the Board, for his third consecutive term. Speculation about a possible changing of the guard in the President's
SF News Voters Will Decide Fate Of 8 Washington's Boxy Condo Complex At yesterday's board meeting, the Supervisors upheld their decision to approve the 136-foot-tall and strikingly bland 8 Washington project. The vote broke down to the same 8-3 split that initially approved the height
SF News Major Coit Tower Restoration Announced All the of drama surrounding Coit Tower, as well as June election's Prop B, are over after Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Chiu announced a $1.7 million fund to repair Coit
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations, Supervisor Jane Kim, On Your First Self-Propelled Bike To Work Day For some San Francisco city officials today was just another beautiful day to ride a bike to work, but for District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim today marked her first solo expedition on Bike
SF News Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate David Chiu Serving his second term as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, David Chiu stunned many wonk insiders after snatching the coveted SF Chronicle mayoral endorsement. Chiu serves as Supervisor for District
