SF News Rigged Election? San Francisco's Greatest Vote Fraud Cases Through the Years This year’s election has not yet even taken place yet, but we already have a chorus conspiracy theories claiming that the process will be rigged and a presidential candidate who’s threatening
SF News Mayor Lee's Name Floated As Potential Clinton Cabinet Pick Perhaps Hillary Clinton didn't hear the chorus of boos that greeted Mayor Ed Lee in May when he introduced her at a campaign event in San Francisco his name is now reportedly being
SF News Ten Years After Castro Halloween Shooting, Spooked City Officials Still Tell Revelers To Stay Away It was ten years ago today that someone fired a gun into a crowd of Halloween revelers at the annual Castro block party, hitting nine people, with another person injured in the resulting
SF News Department Of Justice Report Finds SFPD Bias But Carefully Avoids Alleging Racism A US Department of Justice report requested by city officials including Mayor Lee that was approved in February and released yesterday describes, in nearly 400 pages with 94 findings and 272 recommendations, a
SF News Recall Ed Lee Petitions Approved, Hit The Streets Today HOT OFF THE PRESSES! The Official Petition to #RecallEdLee is ready for 60,000 signatures so we can #SweepEdLee #EvictEdLee #SaveSF #EDXIT pic.twitter.com/BHA8rZ619f— RecallEdLee2016 (@RecallEdLee2016) October 8, 2016 A nearly
Arts & Entertainment Mayors Lee, De Blasio Make Twitter Bet On Giants Vs. Mets Wild Card Game The stakes for tonight's MLB Wild Card game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets just got way higher. Okay, not really. Still, civic pride is now on the line
SF News Police Commission Releases Some Info On SFPD Chief Applicants Sixty-one people want the job of chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Those 61, a number which includes current acting chief Toney Chaplin, have all applied for the role — submitting detailed applications
SF News San Francisco's City Worker Salaries, By The Numbers You already know that San Francisco has a $9.6 billion budget — "more than the budgets of 13 states and scores of countries around the world," the Chron notes. As reported earlier this
SF News Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure Just two months ago, with competing proposed housing density bonuses being debated by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lee, it appeared as if no progress might get made in the effort to
SF News [Update] Mayor Announces 57 (Not So) New 'High Priority' Vision Zero Projects Scroll to the bottom of this post for updates. Mayor Ed Lee announced today 57 new "high priority" Vision Zero projects in an effort to address some of the most dangerous stretches of
SF News Proposed SF 'Tech Tax' Angers Mayor, Tech Industry A proposed payroll tax on San Francisco tech companies is already making enemies, and it's not even on the ballot yet. The Chronicle reports that the measure, introduced by Supervisor Eric Mar yesterday
SF News Video: Man On Motorcycle Attacks Cyclist While In Bike Lane Motorcyclist assaulted me for enforcing the Golden Gate Ave bike lane. pic.twitter.com/YYzToqtbz4— Randall Dietel (@R27D) June 28, 2016 Cars and motorcycles using bike lanes to cut around slow-moving traffic is
SF News Streetsblog Editor Confronts City Employee Parked In Bike Lane With last week's two separate hit-and-run deaths of cyclists still very much on his mind, Streetsblog editor Roger Rudick writes yesterday that on Saturday he decided to talk a walk down Market Street
SF News Crazed Driver Terrorizes Lower Haight Before Crashing On Duboce Multiple hit & run Lower Haight ends 435 Duboce. pic.twitter.com/JiiRtP8Qfg— thelowerhaight (@LowerHaight) June 26, 2016 A multiple hit-and-run incident came to a crashing end Saturday evening, with Hoodline reporting that
Arts & Entertainment Video: Politicians Booed As Trans March (Un)Officially Kicks Off SF's Pride Weekend Start saying “Happy Pride”, people! The 2016 Trans March, a not-officially-part-of-SF Pride event that has been the unauthorized kickoff of Pride Weekend for a 13th consecutive year, stayed true to its defiant roots
SF News Transit Advocates Trade Barbs As SFPD Seeks Suspect In Cyclist Slaying As city organizations trade barbs over policies that they say would have prevented the hit-and-run deaths of two cyclists Wednesday, the San Francisco Police Department continues to search for the suspect behind one
SF News Measure To Allow Forced Clearing Of Homeless Encampments Proposed By Farrell If you can't solve a complicated problem, why not just legislate away its symptoms? That appears to be the thinking of Supervisor Mark Farrell, who the Chronicle reports yesterday introduced an initiative that
SF News SF Developing Economic Resiliency Plan, In Case Tech Thing Doesn't Work Out 100% While Mayor Lee introduced for approval the largest San Francisco budget to date — $9.6 billion — at the end of last month, more privately, city officials are making contingency plans for falling markets.
SF News Mayor Ups Proposed Budget To $9.6 Billion With Emphasis On Cleanliness, Homelessness Spending For the fiscal year starting on July 1, Mayor Lee has proposed that San Francisco's budget increase, mostly on the back of property taxes, by around $700 million to reach $9.6 billion.
SF News Effort To Recall Mayor Stalls As Department Of Elections Rejects Filing On Disputed Grounds An effort to recall Mayor Ed Lee hit a roadblock last week, as the Department of Elections told a coalition of activists working to remove the mayor from office that it will not
SF News Ed Lee Blames Judges, Not Criminals, For Spike In SF Property Crime In a conversation with the Chronicle's editorial board, Mayor Ed Lee expressed an interesting opinion on just who, exactly, is to blame for the fact that San Francisco now has the highest per
SF News Ex-Police Chief Suhr Wanted To Quit Well Before Lee 'Asked For His Resignation' The resignation last week of (then) Police Chief Greg Suhr following an officer-involved shooting of a black woman in the Bayview was met with a wide array of responses. Supervisor Scott Wiener, for
SF News Mayor Fires Police Chief Following Another Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting Following Thursday morning's SFPD shooting of an apparently unarmed 27-year-old black woman in the Bayview, Mayor Ed Lee held a late-afternoon press conference to announce that earlier today he asked SFPD Chief Greg
SF News Officials Pretend To Care About Cycling For 22nd Annual Bike To Work Day Amazing crowd here at City Hall to celebrate #BTWD. pic.twitter.com/vJOuLljmGN— SF Bicycle Coalition (@sfbike) May 12, 2016 If the unusually large number of cyclists on the streets today hasn't tipped
SF News Pressure Mounts On SFPD Chief As Four Supervisors Call For His Resignation The chorus calling for the removal of San Francisco's chief of police gained several important voices this week, as now a total of four San Francisco Supervisors have made it known that Greg
