SF News After Mayor Floats $17.5 Million Police Reform Package, Supes Grill Him, Some Call To Fire Suhr As part of his proposed two-year budget, Mayor Lee has suggested adding $17.5 million to the SFPD's budget with the goal of instituting reforms and reducing violence, the AP reports via KRON4.
SF News Will We Be Voting To Recall Ed Lee In November? Just one year after winning reelection by a too-close-for-comfort margin, Mayor Ed Lee could be facing a recall effort this fall, if one of two alleged ballot measure proposals has any legs. The
SF News Chief Suhr Cancels Appearance At Police Accountability Forum Over Security Concerns After a march on City Hall yesterday led by five protestors only consuming liquid calories to demand his removal, Police Chief Greg Suhr reneged on a planned appearance with Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To Mississippi After Anti-LGBT Bill Signed By Governor The number of US states to which San Francisco will pay for travel shrank again today, after Mayor Ed Lee banned all city-funded travel to the state of Mississippi after their governor OKed
SF News In Wake Of Anti-LGBT Law Passage, Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To North Carolina Two days after the governor of North Carolina signed into law legislation that would eliminate protections for LGBT people and ban transgender people from using their gender-identified restrooms, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Will Be An SRO At 12th And Market A year after opening the city's first "Navigation Center" for the homeless at 16th and Mission Streets, a project heralded as a new approach to a persistent issue that would be replicated if
SF News Poll: For The First Time, A Majority Of San Franciscans Disapprove Of Ed Lee Ed Lee is in the red. The Chronicle reports that numbers previously omitted from a recent Chamber of Commerce poll conducted by David Binder Research are fairly damning for the mayor's camp. Why
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Goes To Rio On PG&E's Dime Did you know that Mayor Ed Lee is in Brazil this week? Well, he is, on a trip bought for him by a flock of high-powered big business donors. Here's Lee's daily calendar
SF News With Towing Fees Slashed, SFMTA Now Wants Some Parking Meters To Run Past 6 PM Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has successfully pushed the SF Municipal Transportation Agency to reduce towing fees, the MTA says they need to find a way to make up the
SF News So NOW We Have A Homelessness Crisis, Supervisor Campos Decides After seven years on the Board of Supervisors, David Campos woke up this morning and decided that San Francisco had entered a homelessness crisis. Campos' team was up early, too, calling SFist before
SF News Ed Lee Isn't A Bernie Bro, Rallies for Hillary In Seattle Bay Area Bernie bros turned even saltier after catching wind that San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee stumped for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday. Up north for a Hillary In Washington event, the
SF News Another Homeless Navigation Center Will Take 6 Months, Mayor Says The first Homeless Navigation Center, a pilot project originally funded by a $3 million anonymous donation via the SF Interfaith council, opened up after some delays last year in the Mission. It's seen
SF News City To Clear 'Tent City' Homeless Encampment Within 72 Hours Division Street's tent city, a sizable homeless encampment beneath a section of the Central Freeway that has grown in size over the last two winters, will be cleared by city agencies within 72
SF News Shadowy Group With Alleged Lee Ties Seeks To Scare Progressives With Term Limit Amendment When once and again San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced his run to reclaim his Board seat last spring, some asked how he could do that, given that he's already served the legally-allowed
SF News Autopsy: Mario Woods Shot 17 Times From Behind, Had Drugs In System Mario Woods was shot by SFPD officers 20 times on December 2, with an autopsy describing the trajectory of 17 of his gunshots wounds as "back to front." The medical examiner's report was
SF News Confirmed: Ed Lee's 'Best Friend' From College Is Now A Homeless San Franciscan Two college chums are now on opposite sides of a divided city. A 64-year-old man named Jim Hammond Harding who had the pleasure of meeting the Chronicle's curmudgeon-in-chief Chuck Nevius says that “ Mayor
SF News Rapper Equipto, Others Arrested After Heckling Ed Lee At The Fairmont Rapper Equipto, a name in the West Coast hip-hop scene, has been taking on a new role in the last six months: bête noire to Mayor Ed Lee. He's heckled the public official
SF News SoMa Gym Owner Fed Up With Tent City Homeless, Prints Flyers Demanding City Action A SoMa business owner is fed up with the homeless camped near his business, and has printed flyers urging his customers to contact San Francisco elected officials in order to demand some sort
Arts & Entertainment Adele 'Hello' Parody Calls Out Mayor, Ron Conway It's been almost a year since we had a music video cover of a hit song attempt to shine a spotlight on the gnashing of San Francisco's inequality teeth, and so it feels
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Reportedly Describes SFPD Shooting Of Mario Woods As 'Horrifying' 'Firing Squad' According to an interview in a local print newspaper, Mayor Ed Lee has gone from terming the video of Mario Woods' shooting by five officers with the San Francisco Police Department as "upsetting"
SF News Handshake Deal: How SF Scored The Super Bowl With No Written Agreement Sup Bro. #SB50 pic.twitter.com/ao8ImxugZ1— shanan (@shanand) January 28, 2016 To win the Super Bowl, the City of San Francisco played ball. An independent office of the Budget and Legislative Analysis
SF News Following Fatal Shooting Caught On Video, Department Of Justice Announces 'Comprehensive Review' Of San Francisco Police Policies A little more than a week after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called for a federal investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's caught-on-video shooting of Mario Woods, he has his answer: The
SF News For SF Homeless, Just 75 Of Possible 1,300 'El Niño Beds' Added While Mayor Ed Lee vowed last month that up to 1,300 temporary shelter beds might be added during this season's El Niño weather pattern, by the Examiner's count just 75 have been
SF News Justice For Mario Woods Coalition To 'Crash' Ed Lee Inauguration The second — or, including his interim term, the third, but who's counting — inauguration of Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall tomorrow may also usher in a new era of protest in San Francisco.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Third Inauguration Ceremony Clouded By Allegations Of Corruption, Isolation An inauguration of a city's mayor is supposed to be a time of celebration, of excitement for the future, and of pride and joy. But when you're Ed Lee, announcing your third inauguration
