SF News 21-Year-Old Tech Entrepreneur And Amateur Rapper Enters 2019 Mayor's Race We're still a long way from November 2019, when San Francisco will be deciding on its next mayor. We know that former SF supervisor and state senator Mark Leno is in the running,
SF News Cash Pouring In For Mayor, Supervisor Races As Ed Lee Staffers Bolt For Uber It may become a new rite of passage in lame duck administrations that top staff start taking lobbying positions for the lawless scandal factory that is Uber. That’s a thread we see
SF News Why Is Mark Leno Entering The Mayor's Race So Early, And Where's Ed Lee Been Lately? As we learned the other week, former state senator, assemblyman, and SF supervisor Mark Leno has announced he's running for mayor in 2019, i.e. almost two and a half years from now.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mark Leno Is Running For Mayor, Everybody Former state senator Mark Leno, who's contemplated a mayoral run before, is going to announce Thursday that he's officially entering the race for mayor in 2019. [Chronicle] Prior to the Ghost Ship tragedy,
SF News Mark Leno Pretty Definitely Running For Mayor In 2019 We've been teased with this before, but this time it looks like recently termed-out state senator Mark Leno is almost certainly going to be a top candidate for San Francisco Mayor just as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco To Get First New Liquor Licenses Issued By State In 77 Years Thanks to a bill sponsored by state senator Mark Leno, San Francisco is about to get its first new liquor licenses in almost 80 years but only five of them. They're earmarked for
SF News California Schools Finally Almost Ready To Teach Kids LGBT History It's been over four years since a new state law took effect requiring California schools to teach students about some of the LGBT people who have made significant contributions to US history, however
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 The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News Mark Leno Once Again Proposes Bill To Slow Down Ellis Act Evictions In a third attempt at curbing speculative Ellis Act evictions by opportunistic investors, state senator Mark Leno is introducing a bill this session, similar to one that failed to pass last year. The
SF News So Much For That: Mark Leno Won't Try To Unseat Mayor Ed Lee After All What a difference a couple weeks makes! Back on November 18, a local news site reported that it was absolutely certain that Senator Mark Leno would be challenging Ed Lee in San Francisco's
SF News Report: Mark Leno's Definitely Running Against Ed Lee In 2015 Is State Senator Mark Leno actually going to run against incumbent Ed Lee for mayor of San Francisco? According to one local news site, he sure as heck is, and will be announcing
SF News Does Mark Leno Stand A Chance At Unseating Ed Lee? Just weeks after we wondered if anyone of note might oppose Mayor Ed Lee in his 2015 bid to remain in Room 200, we might have an answer. And it's an interesting one:
SF News Cell Phone Kill-Switch Bill Heads To Governor's Desk A draft of Mark Leno's bill that would require all new mobile phones sold in California to come equipped with built-in and activated "kill switches" to discourage theft has passed the Senate and
SF News Ellis Act Reform Bill Killed For Real, Leno 'Profoundly Disappointed' State Senator Mark Leno's effort to prevent cases of real estate flips in Ellis Act evictions, after getting an 11th-hour save in the Senate a few weeks ago, has finally died in committee
SF News Last-Minute Negotiations Save Leno's Ellis Act Bill, Maybe As mentioned this morning, Senator Mark Leno hoped to keep his revisions to the 28-year-old Ellis Act alive, and as of late this afternoon it looks like he's done it. The bill that
SF News Realtors' Lobby Helps Quash Anti-Ellis Act Legislation It may not be dead yet, but Senator Mark Leno's bill in the California legislature, which would have required building owners to own a building for at least five years before invoking the
SF News Local Ellis Act Law Dissed By Mayor Lee As State Limits Move Forward A new statewide law that will prevent Ellis Act evictions by flip-happy real estate speculators passed a judiciary committee vote 5-2 and is expected to be heard on the full Senate floor next
SF News Sup. London Breed Launches New Push For Cell Phone Kill Switch Though it would be far more meaningful at the state level, Supervisor London Breed has a backup plan for some cell phone kill switch legislation in San Francisco. State Senator Mark Leno has
SF News BUZZKILL: Senate Bill To Extend Last Call To 4 AM Gets Put To Bed State Senator Mark Leno's proposal to allow cities and counties in California to extend drinking hours until 4 a.m. was effectively cut off by a bunch of buzzkills in a state Senate
SF News Sign A Petition In Support Of The 4 AM Last Call Mayor Ed Lee may end up being a stick in the mud about it, but a bill to institute an optional 4 a.m. last call in cities across California moves along, and
SF News Ammiano Suggests Marijuana Industry Be Policed By Alcohol Board [Updated] There are now rumblings in Sacramento about how the state might start regulating the largely unregulated medical marijuana industry, and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has an idea: Let the ABC do it. The state's
SF News Boring Mayor Expresses Reservations Over Late Night Drinking Regarding State Senator Mark Leno's new bill that could move last call to 4 a.m., Mayor Lee has said the city will "have to think very carefully about that." Bor-ing. Lee went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New CA Bill Would Let Bars Serve Alcohol Until 4 AM State senator Mark Leno has proposed new legislation in a move that could delight S.F. drinkers and aggravate responsible types across the city and state. The measure would allow cities and counties
