SF News Feinsten Considered For China Ambassador Post? Anne Gust Brown For Senate? Maybe he's just trying to quash last week's rumor in the bed so that his puppet good friend Ed Lee doesn't get any serious traction for the position of U.S. Ambassador to
SF News Ed Lee's Name Floated As Potential Ambassador To China Mayor Ed Lee is now rumored to be a possible candidate to replace outgoing U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, who just announced his resignation. Locke's resignation was apparently unexpected, and just
SF News Campos Holds Hearing On Ellis Act Evictions; Mayor Ed Lee Gets On Board With Legislation We told you last week that Supervisor David Campos is pushing the City Attorney to draft legislation that would create a greater disincentive to landlords considering Ellis Act evictions. Yesterday Campos held a
SF News Ed Lee's Daughter Will Get Married At City Hall Next Weekend, During Dew Tour at Civic Center Well, this should be interesting. The Mayor's daughter is getting married in the City Hall rotunda next Saturday right in the middle of the skateboard/BMX showcase known as the Dew Tour, which
SF News Mayor's Office Will Throw Some Cash At S.F. Eviction Prevention Mayor Ed Lee is acknowledging for the first time that there may be a problem with illegal Ellis Act evictions, and this week his office announced they would be tripling the funding for
Arts & Entertainment Paul McCartney May Play Candlestick Before It Gets Demolished In some off-hand remarks that may or may not have been totally sincere, Sir Paul McCartney told Mayor Ed Lee that he'd be interested in performing the last concert at Candlestick Park before
SF News What Will Happen With Healthy S.F. After Obamacare Begins? Supervisors like David Campos are fighting to keep San Francisco's pioneering Healthy S.F. ordinance in place after Obamacare takes effect in January, but Mayor Ed Lee is saying all options are still
SF News Stockton Street Apple Store Moving To Levi's Space Perhaps wisely, given the multi-year clusterfuck of the Central Subway construction on their doorstep, the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street is relocating next year to the big space currently occupied by Levi's
SF News We're Not The Only Ones Who Notice That The 'Chronicle' Has Problems We pointed you to this piece from the Columbia Journalism Review in a link dump the other day, but in case you missed it, it's worth a read. Former SF Weekly editor John
SF News Mayor Lee To Make All Building Owners Do Soft-Story Retrofitting In honor of the anniversary of the Great Quake yesterday, Mayor Ed Lee signed some legislation that mandates that all owners of apartment buildings of five units or more that have soft stories
SF News 330 Ritch Closed Permanently After Saturday Shooting SoMa nightclub 330 Ritch, which has played host to a wide array of musical acts and dance parties over the last decade and change, is shutting its doors following the very serious shooting
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 News Mirkarimi to Attend 'Healing Arts' Festival to Combat Violence Against Women; Rejects Mayor's Proposal About Domestic Violence Oversight Just to update you on the still ongoing saga of reinstated Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. We learn today he'll be attending a "healing arts" festival on November 24 at Dance Mission Theater, along with
SF News Chick-Fil-A Judgement Day Ends With Accusations Of Fascism, 'Christophobia,' Possible Brain Damage After yesterday's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day drew hundreds of thousands of people clogging drive-thrus and arteries across the country, the media had a chance to put the whole controversy over Dan Cathy's comments supporting
SF News Regarding Willie Brown and How He Will Never Stop Being Mayor For those just tuning in or just recently transplanted here from elsewhere, Willie Brown is still, for all intents and purposes, running San Francisco. Many of you know this already, and understand that
SF News City Attorney Shoots Down Mirkarimi's Request For Perjury Investigation According to the City Attorney's office, those perjury accusations levied against the mayor by Ross Mirkarimi's attorneys have absolutely no bearing on the benched sheriff's official misconduct hearings. As a Deputy City Attorney
SF News Hey, Mayor Lee Is Not The One On Trial Here, Says Mayor Lee After attorneys for Ross Mirkarimi hurled perjury accusations at the mayor during the sidelined Sheriff's ongoing official misconduct hearings, it seems Ed Lee is trying to get out of the spotlight as quickly
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Mayor Ed Lee Accused of Perjury So here's an interesting twist: Attorneys for suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi say that a proxy for Mayor Ed Lee, city insider Walter Wong, approached Mirkarimi around the time of his guilty plea in
SF News Eliana Lopez Goes After Mayor Lee, City Attorney Accuses False Martyrdom Here we go: Eliana Lopez has been condemning the District Attorney's office for publicly releasing cellphone video of her displaying a bruise and talking about her marriage to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi ever since
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Video Release Delayed, Attorneys Call Suspension Absurd We know that you've all been dying, since yesterday, for an update on embattled and suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his plight to keep his job amidst an Ethics Commission hearing. Well, here
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Lopez Staying In Venezuela Until June; Cell Phone Records May Not Be Subpoenaed At least for now, a judge has ruled that the cell phone records of Ross Mirkarimi's former campaign manager can not be subpoenaed in the Mayor's Ethics Commission investigation of the suspended sheriff.
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Judge Rules Suspension Was Valid [Updated] Ross Mirkarimi was back in court today with his lawyers arguing before Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn that he should not have been suspended from duty as Sheriff pending his Ethics Commission hearing,
SF News S.F Mulls Taxing Things Like Air BnB, 'Cottage Industries' Late last week we heard that City Treasurer Jose Cisneros had heeded the call of hotel unions and the Tenants Union to impose the city's 14% hotel tax on AirBnB rentals. Now we're
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Scenes from a Mayoral Candidate Car Wash A handful of your favorite candidates for mayor showed up at McKinley Elementary School on this sunny Saturday afternoon to help wash some dirty vehicles, raise money for the school and generally revel
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Skipped Last Night's Debate to Bar Hop in the Lower Haight Last night's Mayoral debate in the Fillmore doesn't sound like it was very well attended. Out of 12 candidates invited, a third of them didn't show up to the event designed to get
