SF News Lengthy, Angry Protest Breaks Out As Frisco Five Supporters Storm City Hall Friday Following the hospitalization Friday of the hunger strikers now known as the Frisco 5, a call went out on IndyBay to their supporters, whom some are calling the Frisco 500, for a vigil
SF News Mayor Lee Has Phone Call With Hunger Striker And Little Is Accomplished San Francisco mayor speaks with hunger strikers by phone, stands by police chief and reform efforts https://t.co/4rP71mkCcM— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) May 5, 2016 Following on the political theater of
SF News Will We Be Voting To Recall Ed Lee In November? Just one year after winning reelection by a too-close-for-comfort margin, Mayor Ed Lee could be facing a recall effort this fall, if one of two alleged ballot measure proposals has any legs. The
SF News [Update] Hunger Strikers March To City Hall, In Wheelchairs, Interrupt Board Of Supervisors' Meeting The political theater on both sides continues today as five activists who have been on hunger strike outside Mission Police Station for nearly two weeks led a procession of protesters to City Hall
SF News [Update] Mayor Lee Attempts To Visit Hunger Strikers Ahead Of Planned Event, They Refuse While the five hunger strikers demanding that Mayor Lee fire Chief Suhr have been planning to visit City Hall tomorrow and demand parley with him according to 48 Hills, it appears that the
SF News Tech Writer Kara Swisher Announces Plan To Run For SF Mayor... In Seven Years Tech journalist and Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher has spent two decades sniffing around board rooms and harassing tech executives and venture capitalists over Instant Messenger, and now she's looking to pivot into
SF News Following Shooting By Police, Mayor Lee Announces Plan To Clear All Homeless Camps Citywide In a move that is certain to anger homeless advocates even further in a year when conspicuous homelessness has become a primary topic of debate in SF Mayor Ed Lee announced this weekend
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Will Be An SRO At 12th And Market A year after opening the city's first "Navigation Center" for the homeless at 16th and Mission Streets, a project heralded as a new approach to a persistent issue that would be replicated if
SF News Video: Regarding The Ongoing Rent Strike At The Western Addition's Midtown Apartments Download videosavingmidtown_indybay.mp4 (398.2MB) The case of the ongoing rent strike and enormous deferred maintenance bill at the Fillmore-adjacent Midtown Park Apartments dates back to last August, when renters in the
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation of electrified
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Rapper Equipto, Others Arrested After Heckling Ed Lee At The Fairmont Rapper Equipto, a name in the West Coast hip-hop scene, has been taking on a new role in the last six months: bête noire to Mayor Ed Lee. He's heckled the public official
Arts & Entertainment Adele 'Hello' Parody Calls Out Mayor, Ron Conway It's been almost a year since we had a music video cover of a hit song attempt to shine a spotlight on the gnashing of San Francisco's inequality teeth, and so it feels
SF News Nevius: Protesters Need To Stay On Message And Stop Blocking Traffic Black.Seed demonstrators have been arrested on the Bay Bridge. #96Hours #Oakland #ReclaimMLK #shutitdown pic.twitter.com/uIwCACqJBl— shanelle (@TheShanelleM) January 19, 2016 The inevitable reaction to the MLK weekend protests from Chronicle
SF News Early Morning Protests Wake Up Mayor Lee And Chief Suhr #96Hours to Reclaim King's #Radical #Legacy #APTP #Last3Pecent #ReclaimSF #BlackBrownUnity Good Morning, #GregSuhr! pic.twitter.com/B95YfuCqGP— Smedley Butler (@Smedley_Butler) January 17, 2016 A pair of dramatic protest events occurred in the
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Inauguration Drowned Out By 'Nonstop Chants And Protests' No one expected Ed Lee's third inauguration today to go perfectly smoothly, and we already heard this week that protesters of the December death of Mario Woods at the hands of SF Police
SF News Justice For Mario Woods Coalition To 'Crash' Ed Lee Inauguration The second — or, including his interim term, the third, but who's counting — inauguration of Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall tomorrow may also usher in a new era of protest in San Francisco.
SF News Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts Amid $100 Million City Deficit Despite a flush local economy and real estate prices that leave locals flushed, the City of San Francisco faces a nearly $100 million budget deficit, approximately 42 percent of which comes from the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Lee And Aaron Peskin Are Pals Now? Lee, Peskin put bitter election behind them. via @matierandross https://t.co/vLc01gP3kh pic.twitter.com/K9MgayQML0— The Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 27, 2015 Ed Lee and newly reelected Supervisor Aaron Peskin are hanging
SF News Protesters Go 'Caroling' At Mayor Lee's House "In his five years reign as mayor, Ed Lee gave to me," protesters on the Mayor's own doorstep sang new lyrics to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas" this Saturday. "A
SF News SFPD Still Trying To Justify Killing Knife-Wielding Mario Woods As Community Outrage Grows Gwendolyn Woods said SFPD executed her son, the youngest of three boys. Here's a picture of mom and #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/vyniRQsgGn— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) December 4, 2015 Tensions are rising and
SF News Mayor Will Allow Peskin To Start His Supervisor Term On December 8th So now Supervisor-elect Aaron Peskin has an official start date. The District 3 leader was voted back into his old job last month, and today we learn that he'll return to work on
SF News Mayor Lee Could Delay Start Of Peskin's Term In Order To Push Through New Jail Project With Aaron Peskin's November election to the District 3 seat, the Board of Supervisors is set to make a shift to the left. However, what day he officially begins his job is ultimately
SF News Ed Lee Controlled By Shadow Mayor Steve Kawa, Claims Rose Pak Mayor Ed Lee won reelection on Tuesday, but who is really in charge at City Hall? Famed (and feared) powerbroker Rose Pak asserted this week that the Mayor is in fact controlled by
SF News Is Mayor Peskin Next? Even though he won last night, lots of people are saying that Ed Lee symbolically lost. And it's certainly the case that despite low voter turnout, Tuesday's election showed that a large swath
