SF News Kim Proposes Yet Another Measure To Deal With Homeless Encampments Supervisor Jane Kim yesterday introduced a measure that would set terms by which the city engages with tent encampments and the homeless residents who call them home. This, reports the Chronicle, is the
SF News Supes Vote To Make City College Free A proposal floated by Supervisor and state senatorial candidate Jane Kim back in April to make tuition at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) which it was up until the early 1980's passed
SF News Wiener Rejects Kim's 'Positive Campaign Pledge' In State Senate Campaign Ads In the tight race for the District 11 State Senate seat, current SF Supervisor Jane Kim asked her opponent, Supervisor Scott Wiener, to sign a "positive campaign pledge" last week that would have
SF News Kim, Critical Of Wiener's PAC Support, Took State Senate Lead After PG&E-Backed PAC Ad In what was by early June already the most expensive District 11 State Senate Race ever of all time, political action committee money apparently flowed freely on both sides. Until now, Scott Wiener
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kim Actually Beat Wiener In Primary By 370 Votes Despite Apple’s decision to boycott the GOP convention, the company’s CEO Tim Cook plans to host a fundraiser for Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. And it's common for Apple
SF News Supes Seek To Ban Grass Rentals In All SF Parks Following Dolores Park Dustup Responding to an outpouring of condemnation from the general public, five members of the Board of Supervisors have put forth a resolution that would effectively kill the Recreation and Parks Department's program of
SF News Tight District 11 State Senate Race Gets Tighter, As Kim Surpasses Wiener In SF A race that's already known as the most expensive District 11 Senate matchup ever might soon gain another remarkable element, as one of the tightest in recent memory. The day after the June
SF News Wiener Leads Kim In (Merely Symbolic) State Senate Primary As Both Advance To November Election In a heated (read: lots of mailers) race for the District 11 State Senate seat currently occupied by Mark Leno, who is due to be termed-out, two Democratic San Francisco Supervisors — Scott Wiener
SF News Wiener vs. Kim Already Most Expensive District 11 State Senate Race Ever As you can tell by the six pounds of glossy junk mail flyers arriving daily in your mailbox, there is a primary election underway with voting this Tuesday, June 7. The only significant,
SF News Tuesday Lunchtime Links: Bernie Endorses Jane Kim In a slightly odd turn of events, Supervisor and candidate for state senate Jane Kim just got a ringing endorsement from presidential candidate Bernie Sanders via an email to supporters, which could mean
SF News Rec And Parks To Kill Dolores Park Rental Program Following Backlash San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will not extend the Dolores Park reservation pilot program we broke the news on yesterday following its mid-July scheduled completion. The program allowed people to reserve sections
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's Why Restaurants Change Their Names After Health Department Shutdowns Castro residents should be plenty familiar with this tale by now: A restaurant gets temporarily shut down by inspectors with the city's health department, maybe more than once, due to vermin infestations and
SF News Local Leaders Respond To Ousting Of Former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr As reported yesterday, the shooting by a San Francisco Police Department sergeant of an unarmed African-American woman Thursday morning was the last straw for Mayor Ed Lee, who fired (let's call it what
SF News Pressure Mounts On SFPD Chief As Four Supervisors Call For His Resignation The chorus calling for the removal of San Francisco's chief of police gained several important voices this week, as now a total of four San Francisco Supervisors have made it known that Greg
SF News Map: Hundreds Of Violations Committed By Tech Shuttles Per Year It's hard out there for a tech bus. Or so it would seem, with an exhaustive report from NBC Bay Area revealing that the top companies responsible for shuttling workers to and from
SF News Landlord Now Attempting Mass Ellis Act Eviction At 84-Unit Mid-Market Building The two-and-a-half-year-old saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as the landlord, at this point desperate to convert his half-empty residential property into office space, is invoking the Ellis Act after all
SF News Supervisors Pen Op-Ed Slamming SF Super Bowl Deal Meanwhile, in San Francisco... pic.twitter.com/55b5XptnUB— Uel Aramchek (@ThePatanoiac) January 26, 2016 Following on last Tuesday's press conference lambasting San Francisco's Super Bowl City arrangement with the Host Committee and the
SF News Another Housing Argument: Greater Density Does Not Mean Cheaper Units A new study published by the Center for Demographics and Policy titled "Building Cities for People" presents a new wrinkle in the age-old argument about supply and demand when it comes to dealing
SF News Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would be
SF News San Francisco Will Spend Around $4 Million In Taxpayer Money On Super Bowl 50 Last month, members of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors were annoyed that city agencies didn't know how much of your tax money they would have to spend to keep things afloat during Super
SF News Supervisor Peskin Moves To Expand Rent Control To Newer Buildings Supervisor Aaron Peskin is gearing up to draft legislation that would expand rent control to properties built after the current 1979 cutoff. Working with the City Attorney's office, Peskin is exploring a trade-off
SF News [UPDATE] Supervisors Set To Tank New Jail Project With Vote Today It looks like we might not be getting that bright and shiny new jail after all. With a crucial Board of Supervisors vote on the project set for today, six Supervisors have officially
SF News Jane Kim Looks To Increase Taxes On Short-Term Rentals, Hotels Supervisor Jane Kim today announced two future ballot measures that aim to increase both the hotel tax and taxes on certain real estate transfers. The hotel tax measure, which would be voted on
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Already Annoyed About Super Bowl, Still Don't Know What It Will Cost City Echoing some of the back-and-forth that happened leading up to the 2013 America's Cup, several of SF's Board of Supervisors are continuing to voice concerns about how much of the bill for the
SF News Muni Wires Won't Come Down, Super Bowl Fan Village Being Reconfigured It appears that the Super Bowl Host Committee sensed the growing public furor over a proposal to remove the overhead Muni wires and disrupt a bunch of surface transit on Market Street, and
