SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF News How Many Ranked-Choice Votes Would It Take To Unseat Ed Lee? Tomorrow is election day (you're going to vote, right?) and a couple of controversial ballot propositions have received a lot of (deserved) attention. As a possible voter you have been asked to make
SF News Mayor Says He'd Be 'Open' To Letting Gay Bathhouses Back In SF, But Will That Happen? Mayor Ed Lee has been making the rounds of local publications, allowing himself to be interviewed by editorial boards in preparation for an election he's all but guaranteed to win (see the Chronicle's
SF News How The 'Twitter Tax Break' Cost The City $30 Million More In 2014 Than 2013 When the Mayor's office lauds the success of the still controversial 2011 "community benefit agreement," alternately referred to as a tax break and a tax incentive, which aimed to anchor businesses like Twitter
SF News Woman Calls Local TV Station After Housing Authority Lets Pipe Leak For Two Months With dire proclamations about California's rapidly dwindling water supply, and terms like "megadrought" being thrown around, one can forgive the average San Francisco resident for thinking the city might do something to quickly
SF News Bevan Dufty Out As City's 'Homeless Czar' For Reasons Unknown Former Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty has left his role as Director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE), a.k.a. the city's "homeless czar," but a brief release from
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
SF News Video: Local Rapper Calls Out Mayor As 'A Disgrace To Asians' I just wanted to tell Mayor Lee something.. pic.twitter.com/e5aCjtSqLq— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) October 7, 2015 Local hip-hop artist Equipto confronted Mayor Ed Lee in a San Francisco coffeeshop earlier this week,
SF News 'YIMBY' Candidate Amy Farah Weiss Is Pissed The Chronicle Endorsed Ed Lee Without Interviewing All Candidates One of the few people who has chosen to take on incumbent Mayor Ed Lee in this year's election, Amy Farah Weiss, has written an open letter today denouncing the Chronicle's Editorial Board
SF News With Surprise Veto, Mayor Puts Brakes On Rolling 'Idaho Stop' For Cyclists It looked like recently proposed 'Idaho Stop' legislation was in the clear last week as a majority of the Board of Supervisors backed the legislation making ticketing cyclists who safely rolled through stop
SF News Nevius Loves The Mayor's Super Bowl Plan For The Homeless There have been a lot of eyebrow raises amongst the media regarding the mayor's as-yet unexplained plan to clear all the homeless out of the vicinity of the Super Bowl fan village at
SF News During The Super Bowl Mayor Lee Says City's Homeless Will Have To Leave by Jack Morse In an apparent doubling down on his controversial April comment that "there won’t be any room" for San Francisco's homeless once the Super Bowl 50 Fan Village is up
SF News Rose Pak Suffering From Kidney Failure, Calls Mayor Lee 'The Biggest Disappointment' Legendary local power broker Rose Pak, who's graced our pages many, many times over the years as she asserted her influence on city politics at every important turn, is gravely ill, as San
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
SF News Shrimp Boy Fallout: DA's Office Investigating... Someone The fallout from Tuesday's court filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow continues as reporters have swarmed City Hall, Mayor Lee has issued multiple denials and outright dismissals of the allegations, and
SF News David Chiu Wore A Wire To Talk To Shrimp Boy Because He Feared For His Life Another detail to come out of the release yesterday of a court filing in the case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is that former Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who's now a
SF News New Filing In Shrimp Boy Case Says Mayor Ed Lee Took 'Substantial Bribes,' Learned The Game From Willie Brown A potentially damning new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court today says that, in discovery, the defense found that the prosecution had significant evidence of corruption by multiple
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 Video: Step Inside The New Homeless Navigation Center In The Mission We heard a lot about this pilot project over the last year called the Homeless Navigation Center, which is an innovative shelter concept that allows homeless people living in communities with others, pets
SF News Mayor Lee Ups Housing Bond To $300 Million To Buy Land In The Mission San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced yesterday his intention to increase a proposed housing bond measure from $250 million to $300 million. The Business Times reports that the additional $50 million on the
SF News Jerry Brown Forgets To Endorse Ed Lee During Ed Lee Endorsement Speech We all forget things every once in a while, and I'm certainly not going to argue that there's necessarily shame in being forgotten. Your toothbrush, the wireless bill, to water the plants — everyone's
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 Mayor Wants To Reroute Caltrain Past Warriors Arena, Tear Down 280 Overpass The big news being broken by mustache twins Matier & Ross today is a potential plan, unveiled in a closed-door meeting last week at City Hall, to drastically rethink the routing of Caltrain
SF News SF Political Consultant Enrique Pearce Jailed On Child Porn Charges Enrique Pearce, the man who successfully ran Jane Kim's election campaign to the Board of Supervisors, and the Run, Ed, Run campaign, was arrested last night on charges that he was in possession
SF News Warriors Arena Could Be In Serious Trouble, But Maybe Not Joe Lacob, the majority owner of the Golden State Warriors, has come out swinging in the Business Times with regard to that shadowy Mission Bay Alliance that emerged last week with the goal
