SF News Major Coit Tower Restoration Announced All the of drama surrounding Coit Tower, as well as June election's Prop B, are over after Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Chiu announced a $1.7 million fund to repair Coit
SF News San Franciscans Love Mayor Lee, Says Insignificant Chamber Of Commerce Poll The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce — themselves big fans of Mayor Moustache — recently released the results of their annual Citybeat poll. The results, which do not appear to be online anywhere other than
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Municipal Railway... Mayor Ed Lee celebrated 100 years of San Francisco's Municipal Railway today by re-launching Muni's first streetcar, the restored Car No. 1. Joining the Mayor for the dignitaries-only first ride in the century-old
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Ed Lee, Tiger Woods Wish MC Hammer Happy Birthday A big happy 50th birthday to a true creative artist, tech innovator, philanthropist & friend to our City. Happy @MCHammer Day! #2Legit2Quit— Edwin Lee (@mayoredlee) March 30, 2012 San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Asks Nicely To Go Back To Work, Get Paid Facing the prospect of an empty home and nothing to fill his days except Nash Bridges reruns on the USA Network, suspended sheriff Ross Mirikarimi asked the San Francisco Superior Court to overturn
Arts & Entertainment Why Are Willie Brown And Ed Lee Spending So Much Time Together? They're everywhere together these days, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Whether dining about town, attending political parties, or just bro-ing it up wonk-style, the two power
SF News City's New Homeless Czar Sure Does Make A Lot Of Money As we mentioned on Friday, former Castro Supervisor Bevan Dufty was brought back in to the CIty Family fold last week after Mayor Lee gave him a new post as San Francisco's Next
SF News Mirkarimi Watch: Mayor Lee Could Bench The Sheriff, If He Felt Like It While the comment sections of local Internet news outlets and one noted anti-progressive former mayor continue to call for Ross Mirkarimi to step down from his post, it turns out Ed Lee could
SF News Christina Olague Announced As New D5 Supervisor The San Francisco Planning Commission's Christina Olague was revealed as the new District 5 Supervisor. Your newly inaugurated leader Ed Lee made the big announcement at 10 a.m. today. D5's new sovereign
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Ed Lee & 1% Attend Fortune's '40 Under 40' Party At Zynga In fancypants news, a gaggle of tech ilk, public relations birds, and assorted media-ish types attended Fortune Magazine's 2011 "40 Under 40" fete at the Zynga headquarters in SOMA. (Think Out Magazine's OUT
SF News John Avalos Releases Statement on Election Results After holding out for those uncounted ballots for a couple days, the Avalos for Mayor camp has finally given up the ghost. This afternoon, Team Avalos released a concession letter of sorts. Observe:
SF News Start Your Speculation Engines: Who Will Ed Lee Put in District 5? With the race for Sheriff wrapped up for Ross Mirkarimi, the next round of political handwringing turns to focus on who the mayor will install to cover the last year of Mirkarimi's term
SF News Ed Lee Wins San Francisco Mayor's Race [UPDATED] With 61.2% of the votes after eleven rounds of preliminary ranked-choice results, Ed Lee (unofficially) wins the San Francisco Mayor's race, making him the city's first elected Asian-American Mayor. John Avalos, who
SF News Ed Lee Wins First Round In SF Mayor's Race With the people's candidate John Avalos trailing behind, interim Mayor Ed Lee came in first after last night's votes were counted--due in part to absentee ballots filed before election night--but failed to hit
SF News Political Posters Defiled Day Before Election Day On the day before Election Day, posters for Mayor Ed Lee (who, according to Bay Citizen, has a more-than-decent shot of winning), Chris Cunnie, and George Gascon are defaced with Occupy Wall Street-esque
SF News Ed Lee Campaign Slapped with New Money Laundering Accusations Brace yourselves, folks, the October Surprises have started rolling in, albiet a bit late: As the Chronicle reports today, new allegations of money laundering have hit another already shady supporter of Mayor Ed
SF News San Francisco Reviews: 'The Real Ed Lee: The Untold Untold Story' Over the weekend, yet another "biography" of interim Mayor Ed Lee popped up on doorsteps and in mailboxes of registered voters across town. The book, a parody of the "The Ed Lee Story:
SF News Ed Lee Voter Fraud Flyers Appear at S.F. City Hall SFist contributor Nicole sends word that these Ed Lee Voter Fraud flyers, a response to allegations of ballot fixing, "were literally (literally!) on every pole in Civic Center and environs this morning." Not
SF News Fox News Picks Up Ed Lee Voter Fraud Story Over on Foxnews.com, allegations of voter fraud and mishandling of absentee ballots on the part of Ed Lee supporters have put Mayor Lee's face front and center on the conservative news site.
Arts & Entertainment Brian Wilson, Biz Stone, MC Hammer Claim Ed Lee is '2 Legit 2 Quit' [Video] Here's Ashkon (of the Giants World Series/Don't Stop Believing forced-meme fame) doing MC Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" with Hammer himself, Twitter co-founder/Ed Lee spammer Biz Stone and Giants Closer/Taco
SF News Ed Lee Campaign Accused of Voting Fraud Mayor Ed Lee and SF Neighbor Alliance, the bogus grassroots effort that pooped out the cringe-worthy Run, Ed, Run campaign, are under fire this week after witnesses revealed to The Chronicle that they
SF News Occupy SF Asks: Why, Ed, Why? Behold: the "Why, Ed, Why?!" campaign, in which the mustachioed temporary mayor is depicted as a floating cartoon head with a riot helmet and a nightstick. Created by Occupy SF supporters in response
Arts & Entertainment Ed Lee Biography Sparks Controversy, Craigslist Auctions, Book Clubs We briefly mentioned The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but the book's sudden cult following (or backlash, if you prefer) is worth a mention of it's
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: Bevan Dufty Has More Adorable Children, Lee Sells His Jobs Plan with Google Earth After Bevan Dufty's campaign won our hearts and minds with last week's magical Muni ad, the former D8 supervisor is tugging at our heartstrings again with a new campaign video addressing the city's
