SF Politics In First SF Mayoral Debate, Crowd’s Jeers are More Memorable Than Candidates’ Performances All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
SF Politics We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17 After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.
SF Politics Someone Who Hates Mark Farrell Bought the ‘Mark Farrell for Mayor’ Website Just to Trash Him A delicious dose of dirty politics in the SF mayor’s race, as some joker or troll bought the website MarkFarrellForMayor.com, and has dedicated the site to pointing out Farrell’s unflattering details and past ethical issues.
SF Politics Breed Threatens to Back Out of First Mayoral Debate, Questions Whether It Might Be Rigged by Organizer The first SF Mayoral debate is in less than two weeks, but London Breed may be a no-show, as there are ties surfacing between the debate’s tech PAC organizer, and both the Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie campaigns.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Wants to Bring Car Traffic Back to Market Street Downtown — Is That Wise? It could just be campaign bluster and empty talk, but mayoral candidate Mark Farrell is among those talking about reopening Market Street to regular vehicle traffic. And Chronicle urban design critic John King has some thoughts.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Mark Farrell Lays Out His Law-and-Order Agenda Mayoral hopeful Mark Farrell, who is seeking to challenge the woman who he once before replaced, and who ultimately replaced him in his brief stint as mayor six years ago, has just spelled out some more specifics in terms of his agenda.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Mark Farrell Beating London Breed in First-Choice Vote, and Breed Trailing In Ranked-Choice The first poll conducted since Mark Farrell jumped into the SF mayor’s race shows him edging London Breed slightly in first-choice votes, while Daniel Lurie does the best in second-choice votes, and there are generally low approval ratings for Breed.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Formally Announces He's Running for Mayor, Giving Breed Three Moderate Challengers Former SF supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell officially threw his hat in the ring to challenge London Breed for mayor this November, so now Breed has three moderate opponents (two of whom are pretty wealthy).
SF Politics In a Blast From the Past, Former SF Supervisor Mark Farrell Indicates He Might Run for Mayor Apparently there’s some purported campaign to draft former District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell to run against London Breed in the 2024 mayoral race, and polling suggests he’d have a good shot at winning the increasingly crowded race.
SF News How Does Your Supervisor Kill Time On The Internet? An Analysis Anyone who’s endured any portion of a weekly San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting knows that these are godawfully long and dull affairs during which no sentient human could ever avoid the
SF News Prop Q, Voter-Approved Anti-Homeless Encampment Law, Hasn't Been Used Once A measure passed by San Francisco voters in November to give city officials the power to clear clusters of tents on city streets and sidewalks after providing 24-hours notice and offering services including
SF News It Took Nine People And $110K To Come Up With Toll Idea For Lombard Street Those annoyed by a recent proposal to charge sightseers to travel down the crooked part of Lombard Street have still another reason to be ticked today, as a new report reveals a remarkable
SF News Supervisor Farrell Proposes FasTrak System, Reservations For Famous Lombard Street Block Living at a tourist attraction continues to takes its toll on Russian Hill neighbors with houses along the famous one-way crooked section of Lombard Street, and so they continue to demand that something,
SF News Trump Hotels Threaten SF Expansion, Local Leaders Say 'Good Luck' Eric Danziger, CEO of Trump Hotels, got his start right here in the City by the Bay, working in 1971 as a bellman at the Fairmont Hotel. Now he'd like to see the
SF News Newly Appointed Rec And Parks Commissioner Resigns Days After Being Sworn In Jason Chan's time as a commissioner with the Rec and Parks Department was short and not particularly sweet. The Chronicle reports that the former Ed Lee campaign worker resigned from his post mere
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 Latina Woman Victim Of Alleged Hate Attack While Watching Children Near Fort Mason A Latina woman working as a nanny in SF's Marina district was physically and verbally attacked Monday in a hate crime at Fort Mason’s Great Meadow. As CBS 5 reports, the incident
SF News Supervisor Proposes Law To Guarantee Tenants' Choice Of Internet Provider, Ending AT&T/Comcast Duopoly The choice between AT&T and Comcast being little choice at all, Supervisor Mark Farrell plans to introduce legislation today that would ensure all San Franciscans access to Monkeybrains/Webpass/what have
SF News Venture Capitalists Funding Anti-Homeless Encampment Measure With so many local propositions on this November's ballot, it's perhaps understandably hard for any single one to stand out. That, of course, is where money comes in. Mission Local reports that a
SF News 'Tech Tax' Dies After Supervisor Farrell Associates It With Donald Trump The controversial "tech tax" is dead for the time being, with a 2-to-1 vote yesterday by the Board of Supervisors’ budget committee meaning the measure will not be sent to the full board
SF News San Francisco's Newest Dog Park Cost $305,000 And Features Artificial Turf San Francisco's dogs have a new place to do their business this week, as city officials yesterday opened a brand new play area complete with fences and artificial turf. Bay City News reports
SF News Supes Poised To Open Door For 30,000 More SF Apartments...If Landlords Bother To Build Though much ink has been spilled on the increasingly-divided nature of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, two of the Supes who are in frequent opposition came together late Monday, agreeing on legislation that,
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 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 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
