SF Politics Relative Political Newcomers Vying for Hillary Ronen’s District 9 Supervisor Seat, One of Whom Always Wears a Colorful Hat The race for the seat of termed-out District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen brings some fresh faces who haven’t held a City Hall office before, including the longtime producer of Carnaval, a one-time lobbyist for the Citizen app, and an activist who ran surprisingly strongly against Scott Wiener.
SF News Supervisor Ronen Proposes City Fund to Pay Workers Ripped Off by Wage Theft Around 14,000 SF workers get stiffed by wage theft every year. Supervisor Hillary Ronen just introduced one of her last proposals before she leaves office, which would be a $500,000-a-year fund to pay workers who never got paid by their employers.
SF Politics Rowdy District 9 Supervisor Debate at El Rio Draws Hecklers, Very Vocal Peanut Gallery Things will get a little raucous when you have your SF supervisor candidate debate at a bar serving liquor, as we learned Wednesday night at El Rio when six candidates squared off over who will take Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s seat.
SF News One Week Out From Mission Street Vending Ban, Alternative Vending Sites Revealed One week out from the Mission Street vending ban, Supervisor Hillary Ronen insists she won’t delay the ban, and revealed the alternative sites where vending will be allowed.
SF News Mission Street Vending Ban Delayed, As the City Will Likely Be Busy Busting Vendors Near APEC The Mission Street vending ban is now delayed until after Thanksgiving, reportedly because of APEC, an event for which the city is determined to clear Fisherman’s Wharf of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors.
SF News Mission Street Vendors Not at All Happy About New Vending Ban, Which May Only Be a 90-Day Ban Most Mission Street vendors do not even realize that SF is gearing up to ban vending on Mission Street, and we now learn the vending ban might only be in effect for 90 days.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CHP Nabs Marin Driver With Mannequin Carpool Pal SF Sup. Matt Dorsey has irked progressive colleagues with a proposal about those 'wellness hubs'; there was an incident involving a stalled Waymo One taxi on Valencia on Sunday; and CHP officers caught a guy using the old mannequin trick to ride in the carpool lane on 101 in Marin.
SF Politics Four Candidates Already In Race For Ronen’s District 9 Seat, as She’s Termed Out Next Year Nearly 19 months before the November 2024 election, four candidates already say they’re running for the District 9 seat from which Hillary Ronen will be termed out, a real contrast from the other five 2024 SF supervisor races where no one has really declared.
SF News Capp Street Gets Bigger New Concrete Barricades, Firefighters Union Sounds Off Angrily On Twitter A new set of heavier and more immovable concrete barriers went up to deter the sex work trade on Capp Street this weekend, but the local firefighters union took to Twitter to decry what they see as a public safety risk.
SF Politics Supervisor Hillary Ronen Introduces Legislation To Legalize Sex Work As the sex worker controversy roils Capp Street, the district’s supervisor Hillary Ronen has unveiled legislation hoping to legalize sex work, though it really just asks the state legislature to do it.
SF News City Hall, SFPD Unveil Plans To Barricade Capp Street In Supposed Sex Work Crackdown We’re now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen’s office tells us will be “up by Friday,” and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.
SF News Fences at 24th and Mission Have Been Ripped Down, Seemingly by Protesters Those controversial fences at the 24th and Mission BART station were torn down, apparently Saturday morning, and a protest group is taking credit for holding down the “liberated space.”
SF News In First Weekend, Fences at 24th and Mission Fail to Deter Vending, Mostly Just Block Sidewalk Access The new fences meant to discourage vending at 24th and Mission Street saw their first Saturday and Sunday of action, and did not seem to deter illegal vending, but instead just deterred access for folks using wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Submits ‘Draft Final Map’ After High Drama, Twitter Fights, and Half the Task Force Walking Out A bonkers weekend of redistricting fireworks saw profane Twitter fights between supervisors, and four members storming out of a late night meeting in protest, but the map’s final draft is now complete.
SF News Property Owners Back on the Hook for Graffiti Fines, as Supervisors End Pandemic Graffiti Citation Amnesty Tagging and graffiti can once again result in fines on property owners, as the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to end a year-long amnesty on fines for properties that don’t clean their graffiti off quickly enough.
SF News Surge of Street Blight in the Mission Spurs Neighborhood Outcry; Action Plan Hopes to Remedy It Mission conditions have deteriorated noticeably in the last few months, with street vendors hawking hot merchandise, encampments, and trash galore, but the neighborhood is on a mission to fix it.
SF News SF Superior Court Drowning in Case Backlog, Public Defender Calls it ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ More than 200 people remain incarcerated with their trials months past the legal deadline here in San Francisco, and Sup. Ronen is on a warpath to speed up getting these cases heard.
SF News Sutter Health Price-Gouging Exposé Lands Hillary Ronen on ‘60 Minutes’ Sup. Hillary Ronen popped up on “60 Minutes” Sunday night to proclaim “We are getting screwed” over Sutter Health’s alleged monopoly and price-gouging practices.
SF News SF Supervisors Seek to Ban Chemical Sprays, Rubber Bullets During Protests Recent reports of peaceful protesters in San Francisco subjected to rubber bullets and inhumane tactics by on-site police have flooded social media. In a bid to stop a repeat of those scenes, three SF supervisors are set to introduce an act banning certain militant crowd control tools.
SF Politics Sup. Ronen Moves to Toughen Up Tenant Buyout Protections With the eviction crisis is still hitting the Mission District the hardest, Hillary Ronen wants to close loopholes that landlords use to lowball tenants on buyout offers.
SF Politics Scaled-Down Mental Health SF Plan Finalized, Set for Supervisors’ Approval The formerly universal mental health plan will still treat as many as 4,000 people in need, and the mayor and supervisors’ compromise version looks likely to cruise through City Hall by next week.
SF Politics Supervisors and Mayor at Odds Over Dueling Mental Health Plans After Supervisors Haney and Ronen introduced their sweeping Mental Health SF initiative, Mayor Breed counters with her own Urgent Care SF plan, which is ironically the less urgent of the two.
SF Politics Joe Biden Is In The Bay Area Today, And You Can See Him For Just $2,800 A $1,500 lunch with Biden is already underway in Palo Alto, but you can catch him at Feinstein’s mansion later today for the affordable price of $2,800.
SF Politics Supes Haney And Ronen Unveil Sweeping Mental Health Bill, Mayor Is Quick To Oppose It Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen Confronts Ted Cruz About Border Detention Centers Texas Senator Ted Cruz got an earful from Supervisor Hillary Ronen at LAX on Sunday when she decided to confront him about the horrific conditions for detainees at the southern border.
