SF News Protesters Go 'Caroling' At Mayor Lee's House "In his five years reign as mayor, Ed Lee gave to me," protesters on the Mayor's own doorstep sang new lyrics to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas" this Saturday. "A
SF News Mayor Lee Backs Tasers For SFPD, Opponents Ready For A Fight During a radio appearance this morning, Mayor Ed Lee voiced support for arming SFPD officers with Tasers, stating a position spokesperson Christine Falvey confirmed to the Examiner. Police Chief Greg Suhr has for
SF News Supervisor Peskin Moves To Expand Rent Control To Newer Buildings Supervisor Aaron Peskin is gearing up to draft legislation that would expand rent control to properties built after the current 1979 cutoff. Working with the City Attorney's office, Peskin is exploring a trade-off
SF News With Vote Tomorrow, Idaho Stop For Cyclists Stalled Just Shy Of Veto Override Mayor Lee made no friends among cyclists who have agitated for rolling "Idaho stops" at clear intersections when he promised to veto the likely passage of legislation that would make enforcement of full
SF News Survey: Mayor Lee's Approval Ratings Plummet, Majority Says SF Is 'Pretty Seriously Off-Track' A survey conducted by the polling company regularly used by Ed Lee to demonstrate support for his plans and proposals has some bad news for the San Francisco Mayor: His approval ratings are
SF News In Solidarity With Paris, SF City Hall Lit Up Blue, White and Red; SFPD On 'Heightened Alert' 🇫🇷 @SFCity_Hall, whose design was inspired by Les Invalides in #Paris, is lit up in France's colors tonight. pic.twitter.com/8DAMFXt250— John McMurtrie (@McMurtrieSF) November 14, 2015 San Francisco's City Hall, the
SF News SF's Failed Soda Tax Was More Popular Than Ed Lee Share a #coke, get #type2diabetes. Instead, #drinkwater ! Stay healthy #truth #SF & #Berkeley #sodatax #yesonE pic.twitter.com/2Sjc7OUMH5— Janna N Cordeiro (@jncordeiro) October 27, 2014 Though the San Francisco Department of Elections
SF News Ed Lee Controlled By Shadow Mayor Steve Kawa, Claims Rose Pak Mayor Ed Lee won reelection on Tuesday, but who is really in charge at City Hall? Famed (and feared) powerbroker Rose Pak asserted this week that the Mayor is in fact controlled by
SF News How Many Ranked-Choice Votes Would It Take To Unseat Ed Lee? Tomorrow is election day (you're going to vote, right?) and a couple of controversial ballot propositions have received a lot of (deserved) attention. As a possible voter you have been asked to make
SF News Ron Conway Instructed The CEOs Of Every Company He Funds To Tell Their Employees How To Vote Ron Conway, Mayor Ed Lee's own personal angel investor, knows how he'll be voting in this upcoming local election. Ed Lee all the way, baby. In fact, Conway seems to think he'll be
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
SF News 'YIMBY' Candidate Amy Farah Weiss Is Pissed The Chronicle Endorsed Ed Lee Without Interviewing All Candidates One of the few people who has chosen to take on incumbent Mayor Ed Lee in this year's election, Amy Farah Weiss, has written an open letter today denouncing the Chronicle's Editorial Board
SF News With Surprise Veto, Mayor Puts Brakes On Rolling 'Idaho Stop' For Cyclists It looked like recently proposed 'Idaho Stop' legislation was in the clear last week as a majority of the Board of Supervisors backed the legislation making ticketing cyclists who safely rolled through stop
SF News Behold, The Chronicle's Damningly Tepid Endorsement Of Mayor Ed Lee We've all been scolded "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all" at one time or another, haven't we? Of course, that admonishment doesn't apply when you work in the
SF News Airbnb's $8 Million And More: SF Campaign Fundraising, By The Numbers As things ramp up towards November's election in San Francisco, big money has been flooding in and out of the offices of some hotly-contested (in most cases) local campaigns. Want to take a
SF News Video: Mayor Ed Lee's Vision For San Francisco Hey, what are you up to for the next hour and seven minutes? Want to watch Mayor Ed Lee face the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board? Then do I have a video for
SF News Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the tech sector (surprise!), just
SF News Mission Development Project Goes Fully Affordable As Lee And Campos Make Nice Mayor Lee and Supervisor David Campos, who recently clashed over that supervisor's proposal for a moratorium on market rate housing in the Mission District, appear to be mending fences. As Mission Local reports,
SF News Halfway Through The 22-Day Muni-Riding Challenge, The Mayor May Have Only Ridden Muni Once Challenged by the SF Transit Riders Union (SFTRU) to hop on Muni as much as possible for 22 days this month, the Mayor and Board of Supervisors are being carefully watched by that
SF News What's Ed Saying Now? Looking Ahead, Or Not Working w @sfbos to deliver City budget that invests responsibly in residents, ensures all share in #SF’s prosperity pic.twitter.com/DjJtVLdomX— Edwin Lee (@mayoredlee) June 1, 2015 In a move that
SF News Jerry Brown Forgets To Endorse Ed Lee During Ed Lee Endorsement Speech We all forget things every once in a while, and I'm certainly not going to argue that there's necessarily shame in being forgotten. Your toothbrush, the wireless bill, to water the plants — everyone's
SF News Writer Broke-Ass Stuart Running For Mayor In 'Journalistic Experiment' Stuart Schuffman, best known by his writing moniker and eponoymous website Broke-Ass Stuart, formally announced today via his column for the San Francisco Examiner that he is running for Mayor, challenging Ed Lee
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 Ron Conway Defends Warriors Arena, Mission Bay Alliance Consultant Calls Him 'Bag Of Crap' Today we hear more from the Mission Bay Alliance, a group that just appeared made up of anonymous deep-pocketed UCSF donors to crusade against the Warriors Arena project in Mission Bay. Meanwhile, as
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes $3 Million Plan For Police Body Cameras Back in 2013, we were told that SFPD officers would be getting body cameras as part of a pilot program funded by $25,000 federal grant. But in January of this year, we
