SF News Mayor And Supervisors Challenged To Ride Muni Themselves Much like the citizenry did almost ten years ago with then mayor Gavin Newsom, a citizens' group is challenging the current mayor and Board of Supervisors to ride Muni themselves for 22 days
SF News Willie Brown Says Newsom Should Be Hillary's Veep, Calls Peskin A 'Troll,' And Likes <i>Furious 7</i> This week's Willie's World is full of terrific tidbits from the man we all once called Da Mayor. First off he'd like everyone to know that Gavin Newsom should be Hillary Clinton's most
SF News Mayor's Office Thinks $2700 Studio Is 'Affordable' In the ongoing absurdist saga of SF's rental market, we have a snapshot of what the Mayor's Office would consider "middle income" housing the type of income-restricted housing that's "affordable" to people who
SF News New Homeless 'Navigation Center' Will Seek To Move Whole Encampments, Pets And All The former site of the Phoenix Continuation High School at 1950 Mission Street has been abandoned for years. Soon, it will see 125 below-market-rate housing units, but for now, it is to serve
SF News This Week Marks The 11th Anniversary Of Gay Marriage In SF While the Supreme Court is hinting that the time has finally come this year for nationwide, federally sanctioned same-sex marriage, the whole idea is yesterday's news for the Bay Area. Literally. Yesterday, February
SF News Election 2015: Former Homeless Hater Fibs About Mayoral Pow-Wow, Lee's War Chest Grows And Grows President Obama might be struggling to raise dough, but I can think of one guy, a man who's facing a lot less opposition, who isn't. You guessed it! I'm talking about San Francisco
SF News Most San Franciscans Don't Hate Tech At All In a recent poll of 501 likely voters commissioned by Ed Lee's re-election campaign and conducted by Oakland's EMC Research, 65% of respondents expressed a favorable opinion of "the local technology industry." By
SF News Now Mayor Lee Wants A City-Run Clean Energy Program, On His Terms “If San Francisco is going to do a clean energy program, let’s do a real one,” Mayor Lee said in a statement announcing a shift in his priorities. The Chron reports that
SF News Here's How Mayor Lee Promises To Ease The Housing Crisis In His 2015 State Of The City Address This morning Mayor Lee delivered his State of the City address at the newly completed Phase 1 of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in the Bayview chosen because it's the first new
SF News Day Around The Bay: Protesting In the Rain Despite pouring rain last night, 150 protesters still marched from Berkeley to Oakland, again, and a smaller group blocked traffic on Market Street in SF. [SF Weekly, Chron] Jesse Jackson and some 100
SF News Only Six Percent Of New Housing Units In Immediate Pipeline Will Be Affordable To Middle Class Mayor Ed Lee has been making a point this year of addressing the dearth of new housing that's actually affordable to people who make average incomes as opposed to the wealthy or the
SF News Exclusive: How City Hall Actually Thinks It Can Get More Affordable Housing Built Those of you who voted earlier this month approved Prop K, a housing "ordinance" accurately described by the League of Pissed-Off Voters as a “non-binding pinky swear" of a ballot measure. The proposition
SF News Mild Intrigue Surrounds Mayor's Possible Appointment To David Chiu's Board Seat, Board President Vote Those who follow every moderate-liberal-vs-progressive chess move in S.F.'s political landscape should probably find themselves a more compelling hobby. But if you are one of those people, the coming weeks should
SF News Regarding How New York, And Dianne Feinstein, Openly Hate Airbnb Maybe you've heard, but New York City is the next frontier Airbnb is hoping to conquer, and so far that effort is not looking nearly as easy as the company's San Francisco conquest
SF News So Who's Going To Run Against Ed Lee? I know, I know, the November, 2014 election isn't even here yet, and here we are talking about 2015's race! Blame the Chron's Heather Knight who, in a slyly nasty* piece posted Saturday,
SF News Almost Half Of Newly Built Condos In S.F. Are Second Homes For Peninsula Wealthy, Others Anecdotally most of us have understood for years that the San Francisco luxury condo market is attracting buyers from afar in search of second or third homes or pied-a-terres, much like the Manhattan
SF News Mayor Lee Launches Pilot Program To Help The Potentially Evicted Stay Put Photo: Dave Golden It may sound like a drop in the bucket (and it kind of is), but Mayor Ed Lee is rolling out a new program today, the first of its kind
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: New Racketeering Charges For Yee and Shrimp Boy A revised grand jury indictment filed Friday, which includes 228 charges against 29 defendants, now includes federal racketeering charges against suspended state Senator Leland Yee and Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, as well as
SF News Affordable Housing Compromise Reached For November Ballot The battle that had been predicted on the November ballot between competing proposals by Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee on the affordable-housing question has been averted. And it sounds like Kim made
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
SF News Mayor's Report Says 19,000 Homeless Off SF Streets, But 8,000 Were Just Bused Out Of Town Mayor Ed Lee's progress report on homelessness was released Thursday—and if you've got a few hours to kill, you can read the 40-page document here—but one of the city's biggest accomplishments
SF News Middle Finger Raised To S.F., George Lucas Takes His $700 Million Museum To Chicago Billionaire filmmaker George Lucas, after a long and protracted effort to try to build a museum in San Francisco to house his collection of illustrations, graphic art, and movie memorabilia, has decided instead
SF News Ridesharing Companies Need Mayor Lee's Help Getting To The Airport San Francisco mayor and sharing economy advocate Ed Lee has found himself stuck in an awkward showdown between the regulators at San Francisco International Airport and rideshare companies like Lyft, Uber or Sidecar.
SF News Twitter Rents Out S.F. City Hall For Holiday Party Listening to @dickc toasting to 2013. Proud of Twitter! #celebrate pic.twitter.com/kZdDx57a67— Jessica Verrilli (@jess) December 20, 2013 As if there wasn't already growing feeling that the Mayor was secretly in
SF News Ammiano Could Be Contender Against Mayor Lee, But 'Not Shopping For Drapes Yet' Matier and Ross are just putting this out there: Tom Ammiano is so far the strongest progressive opponent for Mayor Ed Lee when he comes up for re-election in 2015. The openly gay
