Arts & Entertainment Photo Gallery: Marissa Meyer, Nicky Hilton and Nancy Pelosi at the SFS Gala The SF Symphony Gala happened two weeks ago, but that won't stop us from going all Us Weekly on you with pictures of the well-heeled at the glamorous party. These patrons dropped up
SF News Apparently No One's Complaining To Mayor Lee About How We're All Paying More To Ride Muni Next Week Despite an apparent budget surplus that enabled the transit agency to dump moneymakers like Sunday parking meters, you'll be paying more to ride Muni starting Monday. Though "constant complaints" inspired Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Ed Lee = No More Mr. Nice Guy Mayor Ed Lee's "era of good feelings is starting to break down." [Chronicle] Oscar Grant's family has visited Ferguson, Missouri and will attend Michael Brown's funeral. [CBS San Francisco] S.F.’s thriving
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Ed Lee's Disappearing Parking Tickets MTA records show that Mayor Ed Lee's Chevy Volt has been ticketed six times since 2011 — for street-cleaning violations and parking in a tow-away zone — but all were conveniently dismissed by the San
SF News It's Officially Curtains For Sunday Parking Meters: No More Enforcement As Of July 1 And that's how San Francisco's brief flirtation with Sunday Parking meter enforcement ends, folks, not with a bang, but with a whimper. It was all the way back in February, 2012 when the
SF News San Francisco's Proposed $15 Minimum Wage, By The Numbers Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee introduced a proposed measure that, if approved by voters in November, would gradually bump San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by July 2018.
SF News Mayor Lee's San Francisco Budget Proposal By The Numbers On Monday, SF Mayor Ed Lee presented his proposed two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2014-15 and 2015-16. It now heads to the Board of Supervisors for their approval (or lack thereof). Here
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News Oakland, S.F. Mayors Dressed As Cyclists Today This is downright charming, you guys. For the 20th annual Bike to Work Day, both Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee donned athletic finery and took to the bike
SF News Local Ellis Act Law Dissed By Mayor Lee As State Limits Move Forward A new statewide law that will prevent Ellis Act evictions by flip-happy real estate speculators passed a judiciary committee vote 5-2 and is expected to be heard on the full Senate floor next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Will Save Chinatown From Itself In Chinatown, the owner of tourist friendly knick-knack shop China Bazaar wants to clean up the perfectly dingy face of the neighborhood, which she believes is plagued by too many tacky souvenir shops
SF News Liveblogging An Ed Lee Interview: The Mustache Faces The Music How exciting! San Francisco mayor Ed Lee was on KQED's Forum this morning, ostensibly to "discuss the economy, the future of MUNI [sic], the city college accreditation crisis, State Senator Leland Yee's corruption
SF News The Mayor vs. Muni: The Fight Over Sunday Meters San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is ratcheting up his opposition to Sunday parking meter enforcement, telling KCBS that he refuses to accept any compromises, and that he is "only willing to consider 'no
SF News San Francisco's Jet-Setting Mayor's Travel Expenses Close In On Six Figures It's good being mayor of San Francisco! Sure, there's lots of boring meetings, and you have to work on the weekends sometimes, but there are perks—perks like the over $95,000 of
SF News Google Will Cover Two Years Of Free Muni For Low Income Youth Hailed as one of the largest private contributions to city services in San Francisco's history, Google has agreed to donate $6.8 million to fund the Free Muni for Low Income Youth pilot
SF News World-Class Philanderer Swings Into Silicon Valley Today in San Francisco, French President François Hollande met with fellow adultery scandal survivor Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, humble mustache support system Mayor Ed Lee and a cabal of notable tech luminaries to
SF News And Now, Ed Lee At The State Of The Union Billed as an "extraordinary Americans who exemplify the themes and ideals laid out in the State of the Union Address," San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was allowed to hang with Michelle Obama last
SF News 'Extraordinary American' Mayor Ed Lee Will Spend The Evening With Michelle Obama San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, just back from a trip to Washington, D.C., will return to the nation's capital tonight to chill with the nation's coolest mom during the State of the
SF News Ed Lee Wants To End Sunday Parking Meter Fees "I was never a big fan of metering people on Sundays," Mayor Ed Lee said of parking meter fees. And now, almost one year after implementing them, Lee wants to end Sunday parking
SF News 'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which
SF News Twitter Hikes IPO Price, Could Raise Up To $2 Billion The hotly anticipated public offering of Twitter stock is happening on Thursday, and today the business world is abuzz with news that the company is cockily raising the price range of their first
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
Arts & Entertainment Tech Writer's BART Strike Perspective Might Make You Put Your Fist Through This Screen Quick, everyone, freak out! Sarah Lacy's PandoDaily article ("And you thought SF cabs were bad? BART strike is crippling fledgling mid-market tech corridor") is the online version of a drunk Missionite who stumbles
SF News Mayor Lee Unveils New Fleet Of Hybrid Muni Buses That Immediately Break Down [Updated] In a press conference this morning Mayor Lee intended to unveil a brand new fleet of 62 biodiesel-electric hybrid Muni coaches. Unfortunately for the Mayor and the Municipal Railway's public relations team, the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Goofball Mayor Ed Lee Misses Easy Layup A previously mentioned, Mayor Ed Lee held a special ceremony Monday to prop up the Warriors Arena announce the Super Bowl in Santa Clara celebrate Stephen Curry's three-point record with a key to
