SF News Mayor Will Allow Peskin To Start His Supervisor Term On December 8th So now Supervisor-elect Aaron Peskin has an official start date. The District 3 leader was voted back into his old job last month, and today we learn that he'll return to work on
SF News Mayor Lee Could Delay Start Of Peskin's Term In Order To Push Through New Jail Project With Aaron Peskin's November election to the District 3 seat, the Board of Supervisors is set to make a shift to the left. However, what day he officially begins his job is ultimately
SF News Game Over, Man: Here Are The Final Numbers From SF's 2015 Election This one goes out to all my election nerd homies! Though we all know what and who won and lost in San Francisco's November 3 election, it wasn't until Thursday evening that SF's
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 Day Around The Bay: Lightning Struck The Golden Gate Bridge Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Monday https://t.co/SWwlqKT99L pic.twitter.com/OJUlTU8o5D— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 10, 2015 Lightning struck the Golden Gate Bridge
SF News Planning Commissioner Being Compared To Donald Trump For Calling Prop I 'Reverse Racism' A petition campaign has been launched to remove sole Republican Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini following some statements he made in a voting guide for friends and family about Proposition I, the Mission moratorium.
SF News The Mission And Bernal Voted For Props F And I, But Not So Much Elsewhere It turns out that the majority of Yes on F and Yes on I votes in Tuesday's election came, perhaps not surprisingly, from District 9, which includes most of the Mission and all
SF News Is Mayor Peskin Next? Even though he won last night, lots of people are saying that Ed Lee symbolically lost. And it's certainly the case that despite low voter turnout, Tuesday's election showed that a large swath
SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF News That 'Ballot Selfie' You Just Posted? Yeah, That's Illegal. It's election day, and people all over this great country are busy posting pictures of their "I voted" stickers to Twitter and Instagram. Taking it one step further, some San Franciscans will post
SF News The Ballad Of Terence Faulkner, Local Republican Gadfly And Professional Ballot Measure Opponent Another election day has arrived, and for those who actually read their voter guides carefully, I commend you for your patience and your civic due diligence. I would joke that there are only
SF News At Long Last, Election Day Is Upon Us. Here's What You Need To Know. Join the action. #SF City Hall Drop Off Stations open until 8. On Polk/Grove St sidewalks. #sfelections @rasmusktvu pic.twitter.com/JbEAHV5jpy— SF Elections (@SFElections) November 3, 2015 FINALLY. After campaigns that
SF News <i>Times</i> Weighs In On SF's Crazy Local Election; Yes On F People Vow To Bring Measure Back In 2016 As SFist has been trying to tell anyone who'll listen, despite the fact that we aren't even reelecting Nancy Pelosi in this one and the mayor pretty much has it in the bag,
SF News 'Yes On F' Supporters (And Brass Band) Protest Loudly In Airbnb HQ Lobby A small village of house-shaped signs pillorying Airbnb's recent ad campaign blunder spun like a massive mobile in the atrium of 888 Brannan, Airbnb headquarters, this afternoon. "Evictions. Love, Airbnb," and "Homelessness. Love,
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 Willie Brown Just Invited The Whole Town To An Open Bar Tomorrow If you happened to miss the politically tinged, folksy charm of Willie Brown's Willie's World column in the Chronicle on Sunday, you may have missed an important invitation. Brown casually notes, as if
SF News Here's Why You Need To Vote In Tuesday's Election (And Why Many Of You Won't) A lot of you are probably sick of reading stories about affordable housing, moratoriums on building, Airbnb, and a bizarrely contentious fight over something called District 3, wherever that might be. For those
SF News Video: Actor Danny Glover Shoots Commercial In Support Of Props F And I Award winning actor/San Francisco native Danny Glover has never been one to shy away from public comment on local issues, as you can see from items like his impromptu appearance in a
SF News Mayor Says He'd Be 'Open' To Letting Gay Bathhouses Back In SF, But Will That Happen? Mayor Ed Lee has been making the rounds of local publications, allowing himself to be interviewed by editorial boards in preparation for an election he's all but guaranteed to win (see the Chronicle's
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 Passive Aggressive Airbnb Ad Campaign Is Real, And They're Already Taking It Down And Apologizing Chill billboard, @airbnb pic.twitter.com/4QuRJSaG0N— ｊｄｅｎ (@jden415) October 22, 2015 As a couple of images circulated late Wednesday, like this one, of ads in San Francisco purporting to be for Airbnb
SF News For The Last Time, There Is No 'Techie' Voting Bloc How do all techies vote? With ballots, like everyone else. Here's a better trick question. How do all young people vote? Not in local elections! Sad, but true, and not illegal. Age and
SF News The Incredibly Close And Shockingly Expensive Peskin/Christensen Race, By The Numbers Fans and hate-watchers of local politics have been following the race for District 3 supervisor since March, when former D3 Supe Aaron Peskin announced that he wanted to re-occupy the seat currently held
SF News Video: Local Rapper Calls Out Mayor As 'A Disgrace To Asians' I just wanted to tell Mayor Lee something.. pic.twitter.com/e5aCjtSqLq— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) October 7, 2015 Local hip-hop artist Equipto confronted Mayor Ed Lee in a San Francisco coffeeshop earlier this week,
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
