SF Politics Former Supervisor John Avalos Is Running Again for District 11 Supervisor The 2020 Board of Supervisors races are now underway, as one-time supervisor John Avalos is challenging Ahsha Safai for the seat Avalos held for eight years.
SF News Supervisor John Avalos Not Afraid To Burn Bridges On His Way Out Of Casterly Rock We've all compared real-life events to those in fiction — hell, I did it today, when I mentioned an episode of a TV show that a BART collision evoked. But at what point does
SF News Supervisors Vote To Install Permanent Alex Nieto Memorial On Bernal Hill A photo posted by @tootsieroll415 on Jun 16, 2016 at 5:30pm PDT The arrangement of rocks, flowers, and photographs that has sat beside Bernal Hill for the past two years in memory
SF News John Avalos Likens Current Board Of Supervisors Intrigue To 'Game Of Thrones' If you enjoy the chess game of Supervisorial politics in City Hall, you're maybe waiting with bated breath to find out who will get picked to replace Scott Wiener in District 8, and
SF News Measure To Allow Forced Clearing Of Homeless Encampments Proposed By Farrell If you can't solve a complicated problem, why not just legislate away its symptoms? That appears to be the thinking of Supervisor Mark Farrell, who the Chronicle reports yesterday introduced an initiative that
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 Majority Of Supervisors Supports Amendment Lowering Voting Age To 16 Eight San Francisco Supervisors appear to support a charter amendment lowering the local voting age to 16, a measure to be voted on by that board next week, which if approved would send
SF News Nevius Attacks Avalos's Homeless Tent Protection Plan As you know, there have been various small battles being waged following the mayor's announced plan to tackle "hot spots" among homeless encampments citywide and systematically "clear" them, which typically just leads to
SF News Supervisor Avalos Wants To Ban Oil Extraction From Public Land That Currently Benefits SF Libraries And Parks In his 1941 will, local businessman Albert Fuhrman left the city of San Francisco 800 acres of oil land in Kern County. Since then, San Francisco has leased the land to oil companies
SF News City Hall Gets Lazy With Board Of Supes Class Photo, Photoshops Peskin In Something mildly amusing making the rounds on Facebook this afternoon: The official Board of Supervisors class photo for 2016, the full size version of which can be found here and linked from this
SF News Report: SFPD Violated Sanctuary City Policy, Reported El Salvadoran Resident To Immigration An El Salvadoran national, Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, went to SF's Southern Station in December in order to report his car stolen. He ended up getting turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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 Big Empty Parking Lot At Balboa Park Station To Become Affordable Housing In a move that should never have taken this long, a sizable, city-owned parking lot next to the Balboa Park BART station in the Excelsior is moving forward to be developed as 80
SF News City To Help Subsidize 'Middle-Income' Rents In New Housing Bond If Mayor Lee's $250 million housing bond measure gets approved by voters in November, there will for the first time ever be public money going to below-market-rate rental housing geared specifically to residents
SF News How The Police Union Intimidated Supervisors Into Voting Against Police Brutality Resolution Remember the non-binding resolution, introduced by Supervisor John Avalos, that caused a stir among the SFPD and its union back in December? Well, the Examiner has now unearthed the strong-arming emails in which
SF News Police Officers Pissed Over Board Of Supervisors Resolution Supporting Protests A resolution being voted on today by the Board of Supervisors, sponsored by John Avalos, has got the Police Officers Association riled up because it paints a broad picture of all police as
SF News Nevius Takes Up Cause Of Outer Mission Becoming 'Pot Dispensary Row' "If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was a case of short-term memory loss," jests the Chronicle's resident grump C.W. Nevius in an explainer on the locations of San
SF News John Avalos Affair Makes City Hall Rethink Its Employee Handbook Approximately 12 San Franciscans, including his wife, cared about the revelation last week that Supervisor John Avalos had an extended affair with one of his close aides. That aide, Raquel Redondiez, has since
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Calls John Avalos 'Supervisor A**hole': Video This is as close to reality TV as a Board of Supervisors meeting will ever get. Watch in the above clip, at the 2:24 mark, as Mayor Ed Lee calls John Avalos
SF News Supervisor John Avalos Admits To Affair With Staffer, Apologizes City Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate John Avalos went public today with an affair that he's been having with a top aide, Raquel Redondiez, SFGate reports. The affair, while inappropriate in the minds
SF News San Francisco To Explore Even More Cop-Mounted Cameras In the wake of an officer-involved shooting that left one City College student dead, Supervisor John Avalos is calling for a new hearing to explore the idea of attaching cameras to San Francisco
SF News Board Of Supes Passes Two Measures Aimed At Preserving Rental Stock At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, two measures drawn up by Supervisor John Avalos aimed at increasing and preserving the city's stock of rental apartments passed unanimously on initial vote. One measure eases
SF News NYT Slams Larry Ellison And The America's Cup Today the New York Times gets in on the America's Cup hating game, criticizing Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison for making the regatta so expensive to participate in that only four boats are going
SF News San Francisco Still Not Cool With Police Tasers SFPD Chief Greg Suhr wants to equip his department with 100 or so electric stun guns as part of a new pilot program that would specifically train officers to handle mentally ill people.
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Strict Regulations For Corporate Shuttles The corporate shuttle services that run Google, Facebook and other tech company employees up and down the peninsula in their WiFi-enabled coaches have started getting increased scrutiny from City Hall. The buses, which
