SF News Ed Lee Wants $200 Million Housing Bond On November Ballot Mayor Lee is planning to ask the Board of Supervisors for approval to put a $200 million housing bond on the November ballot, writes Bloomberg. No need to mention the affordability crisis, which
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News Clearing SF's Homeless Encampments, By The Numbers Though a new Homeless "Navigation Center," intended to move entire encampments into housing, was announced with much fanfare last week, the Chron's Matier and Ross is a bit more skeptical. Describing camp clearing
SF News Did Mayor Ed Lee Just Make A Joke About Pubic Lice (And Measles)? San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has never been known for witty, off-the-cuff remarks. But at a San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf Merchant’s Association crab feed Thursday night, Lee reportedly "made light" of
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Who's Anybody In The Bay Area Is In This Weird Super Bowl Fundraising Ad Now you can catch all the Bay Area's brightest stars in one place: a trailer for a 60-second radio spot slated to air on station KNBR. The goal, write the Chron's Matier and
SF News Election 2015: Former Homeless Hater Fibs About Mayoral Pow-Wow, Lee's War Chest Grows And Grows President Obama might be struggling to raise dough, but I can think of one guy, a man who's facing a lot less opposition, who isn't. You guessed it! I'm talking about San Francisco
SF News Now Mayor Lee Wants A City-Run Clean Energy Program, On His Terms “If San Francisco is going to do a clean energy program, let’s do a real one,” Mayor Lee said in a statement announcing a shift in his priorities. The Chron reports that
SF News Mayor Appoints Julie Christensen District 3 Supervisor Ed Lee has taken his time, but now sources tell the Chronicle that the mayor has chosen his choice. Neighborhood activist and businesswoman Julie Christensen will be appointed District 3 Supervisor. She'll be
SF News Here's Where The 2024 Summer Olympics Would Happen In SF, If They Happen San Francisco has submitted its bid for the "Games of the XXXIII Olympiad," and the estimated price tag, according to the Chronicle, is $4.5 billion. It's a privately financed plan relying in
SF News Ed Lee Scolds Ron Conway For Supporting CIA Torture In tweets that were more annoying than they were shocking, Ron Conway implied he wholly approved of the CIA despite revelations of atrocious torture of detainees following 9/11 that included sodomizing them.
SF News Mayor Lee's Approval Numbers Slide In New Poll Last year, 65% of likely voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mayor Ed Lee according to the Chronicle. His approval rating has sunk before to 49%, but earlier this year was
SF News So Much For That: Mark Leno Won't Try To Unseat Mayor Ed Lee After All What a difference a couple weeks makes! Back on November 18, a local news site reported that it was absolutely certain that Senator Mark Leno would be challenging Ed Lee in San Francisco's
SF News Report: Mark Leno's Definitely Running Against Ed Lee In 2015 Is State Senator Mark Leno actually going to run against incumbent Ed Lee for mayor of San Francisco? According to one local news site, he sure as heck is, and will be announcing
SF News SF's Soda And Property Flipper Tax Measures Fail, Minimum Wage Increase Triumphs San Francisco made it through nearly half the alphabet, we had so many propositions to vote on this year. How did your pet issues do? WINNER: Local Measure A - San Francisco Transportation
SF News SF's Minimum Wage Will Rise To $11.05 This January According to a press release sent by Mayor Ed Lee's office Thursday night, San Francisco's current minimum wage of $10.74 per hour will rise to $11.05 per hour as of January
SF News Free Underwear, Police Dogs, Double-Decker Buses: Everything You Need To Know About Today's SF Giants Parade As many as 2 million people are expected to come out for today's parade celebrating the 2014 World Champion SF Giants. Are you one of the thousands already staking out a seat, or
SF News Does Mark Leno Stand A Chance At Unseating Ed Lee? Just weeks after we wondered if anyone of note might oppose Mayor Ed Lee in his 2015 bid to remain in Room 200, we might have an answer. And it's an interesting one:
SF News Mayor Lee Ignores SFPD Advice, Announces Civic Center Viewing Party For World Series Game Six Well, so much for the San Francisco Police Department's plan to keep folks from rioting if the Giants win the World Series. A huge part of it just got shattered with a press
SF News Mayor Lee Can Dish Out Punishment Over Transportation Funding, But He Sure Can't Take It You know that thing where you're involved in an argument with someone, then you realize that your opponent is actually angry about something that has NOTHING to do with what you're talking about?
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco vs. Kansas City's World Series Bets, Ranked Every World Series, folks who claim the opposing team's towns make trash-talky bets over which team will emerge victorious. Here's a ranked list of the bets we're aware of so far, with additions
SF News Grab The Popcorn: Eviction Protesters March On Ed Lee's House In a seriously ballsy move, affordable housing advocates flat-out stormed the front of Mayor Ed Lee’s house Saturday afternoon. Roughly 50 demonstrators gathered at a BART station and then marched to Mayor
SF News So Who's Going To Run Against Ed Lee? I know, I know, the November, 2014 election isn't even here yet, and here we are talking about 2015's race! Blame the Chron's Heather Knight who, in a slyly nasty* piece posted Saturday,
SF News Head of $17 Million SF Nonprofit Has Totally Insane Graphic/Religious Blog [Updated] by Eric Wuestewald Bob Bennett, the head of a $17 million San Francisco family services agency, is under investigation over revelations that his personal blog features graphic images, discussions of the female anatomy,
SF News Be Careful With Your Bay Area Bike Share: There Are No Spare Parts The powder-blue bicycles available to ride around San Francisco via the year-old Bay Area Bike Share are precious, indeed: once broken, they will be out of service for a while. You see, thanks
SF News Mayor Lee To Take $648 Million Muni Ride Friday Morning Hey, somebody write this down: this week, Mayor Ed Lee is riding Muni not once, but twice! First, he took the M-Ocean on Tuesday, to, he told the Chron, "try to experience it
