SF News San Francisco Will Cover DACA Renewal Fees Ahead Of October Deadline The SF Mayor's Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs is offering to cover the cost of renewal application fees for all Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in the city, ahead
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 Mayor Ed Lee May 'Send A Bill' To Feds For Saturday Protests #SFPD travels to Alamo Square Park protest in Muni bus, via @FitzTheReporter https://t.co/jT346H03jc pic.twitter.com/goOgtlbyas— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) August 29, 2017 SF Mayor Ed Lee is saying he
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 Photos: May Day Demonstrators March Up Market Street, Blockade ICE Headquarters In SF We're marching side by side w/our immigrant residents to fight for their rights & advocate for comprehensive immigration reform #MayDay2017 pic.twitter.com/L5TIdfCxBA— Mayor Ed Lee (@mayoredlee) May 1, 2017 As
SF News Post Blackout, Mayor Ed Lee Calls For Review Of SF's PG&E Substations Though many were quick to think there was something more nefarious going on Friday when multiple major cities experienced significant power outages (or just Mercury retrograde?), the FBI and PG&E confirmed
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 News Mayor Lee Announces New District 8 Supe, Openly HIV-Positive Glen Park Resident Jeff Sheehy As was expected, Mayor Lee has filled outgoing Supervisor Scott Wiener's seat on the Board of Supervisors unofficially the "gay seat" on the board since it was originally held by Harvey Milk with
SF News Mayor Doubles Down On Enforcing Quality-Of-Life Citations City officials determined in June that enforcing quality-of-life citations is both expensive and ineffective, costing $20.6 million annually without reducing the number of homeless on San Francisco's streets. Having sat on this
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes Limits On Pot Grows In Industrial Spaces Looking ahead to the full, free-wheeling retail marketplace for recreational marijuana that will be hitting California in just over a year, Mayor Ed Lee introduced legislation Tuesday that would require pot growers to
SF News None Of SF's Public Housing Is Publicly Owned Anymore, As Of This Month It's a story that's playing out in various ways in many corners of the country: Because of severe cuts in federal housing funds that began under President Reagan three and a half decades
SF News Recall Ed Lee Petitions Approved, Hit The Streets Today HOT OFF THE PRESSES! The Official Petition to #RecallEdLee is ready for 60,000 signatures so we can #SweepEdLee #EvictEdLee #SaveSF #EDXIT pic.twitter.com/BHA8rZ619f— RecallEdLee2016 (@RecallEdLee2016) October 8, 2016 A nearly
SF News [Update] SFPD Set To Get New Chief Thursday As Feds Release Damning Review Of Department The newly hired chief of the SFPD may be announced as early as tomorrow (Thursday), and the announcement looks to be coming just in time for the release of a 400-page report on
SF News Woman Injured By Fallen Branch In City Park Still Waiting For City To Cover Medical Bills The couple whose lives have been permanently impacted by the failure of a tree in Washington Square Park are continuing to speak out and hold the city responsible for the accident. As the
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Unveils Plan To Make Streets Safer For Bicyclists Mayor Ed Lee yesterday issued an executive directive designed to both spur safety improvements to the city's streets and increase the speed at which San Francisco meets its Vision Zero goal. KQED reports
SF News Video Shows Recall Ed Lee Supporter Chanting 'Go Back To China,' Others Disavow Remark By the time critics of Mayor Ed Lee gathered in front of City Hall to advocate for a recall campaign against him last Friday, 300 hundred or more counter-protesters had lined up across
SF News Longshot Campaigns Launch To Recall Both Mayors Ed Lee And Libby Schaaf Discontented voters in both San Francisco and Oakland are gathering support for recall campaigns for the mayors in both cities, largely due to what is seen as their inaction or lack of leadership
SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF News Mayor Ups Proposed Budget To $9.6 Billion With Emphasis On Cleanliness, Homelessness Spending For the fiscal year starting on July 1, Mayor Lee has proposed that San Francisco's budget increase, mostly on the back of property taxes, by around $700 million to reach $9.6 billion.
SF News Effort To Recall Mayor Stalls As Department Of Elections Rejects Filing On Disputed Grounds An effort to recall Mayor Ed Lee hit a roadblock last week, as the Department of Elections told a coalition of activists working to remove the mayor from office that it will not
SF News Ed Lee Blames Judges, Not Criminals, For Spike In SF Property Crime In a conversation with the Chronicle's editorial board, Mayor Ed Lee expressed an interesting opinion on just who, exactly, is to blame for the fact that San Francisco now has the highest per
SF News Half Of City Hall, Gavin Newsom, And Academy Of Art's Elisa Stephens Show Up To Celebrate Rose Pak's Return As noted Monday, the scheduled return of Rose Pak to San Francisco following an extended medical stay in China was expected to draw a crowd of at least 100 well-wishers and a bus
SF News Rose Pak Returns Following Extended Medical Stay In China A big welcome home convoy and celebratory lunch are planned today as Chinatown power broker Rose Pak lands back home at SFO from an extended stay in China these last several months. Matier
SF News [Update] General Strike Begins With Morning Picket At City Hall Picketing starts at #SF city hall for #Frisco5 #Frisco500 #hungerforjusticesf genera strike pic.twitter.com/kgY4qv7LGU— Mission Local (@MLNow) May 9, 2016 A true general strike, the likes of which we haven't seen