SF News Ed Lee's Big Bucks Donations By The Numbers Campaign finance rules limit the amount of money any one donor can give a candidate for San Francisco office. But those rules don't limit something called "behested payments," in which pols ask for,
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 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 Mayor Lee's Approval Numbers Slide In New Poll Last year, 65% of likely voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mayor Ed Lee according to the Chronicle. His approval rating has sunk before to 49%, but earlier this year was
SF News Mayor Lee Can Dish Out Punishment Over Transportation Funding, But He Sure Can't Take It You know that thing where you're involved in an argument with someone, then you realize that your opponent is actually angry about something that has NOTHING to do with what you're talking about?
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Calls John Avalos 'Supervisor A**hole': Video This is as close to reality TV as a Board of Supervisors meeting will ever get. Watch in the above clip, at the 2:24 mark, as Mayor Ed Lee calls John Avalos
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November ballot, Mayor Ed
SF News America's Cup To San Francisco: Bye With all the formality deserving of the oldest international sporting trophy, America's Cup point man Russell Coutts confirmed yesterday's rumors when he sent a letter to Mayor Ed Lee letting him know San
SF News Two Tech Billionaires Have Shouting Match About Housing Crisis, Ed Lee At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito today, local billionaires Ron Conway and Chamath Palihapitiya got into a shouting match about how to solve San Francisco's housing crisis, and whether Mayor Ed
SF News Mayor Lee's Sharing Economy Working Group Is Hardly Working As mayor during a particularly tumultuous time in the city's growth, Ed Lee has been a leader in calling for task forces and working groups to integrate our local government with the ever-changing
SF News Mayor Ed Lee, Jane Kim Attend Ribbon Cutting For SoMa Affordable Housing Complex For those who suggest that the only way to build affordable housing is by requiring for-profit developers to include it in their buildings, look no further than today's grand opening of a new
SF News Liveblogging An Ed Lee Interview: The Mustache Faces The Music How exciting! San Francisco mayor Ed Lee was on KQED's Forum this morning, ostensibly to "discuss the economy, the future of MUNI [sic], the city college accreditation crisis, State Senator Leland Yee's corruption
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Lotta's Fountain, 5 A.M. Mayor Lee speaks at an annual ceremony commemorating the 1906 earthquake at Lotta's Fountain. (Photo: Gerard Livernois)
SF News Ron Conway Honored For Surviving 1906 Earthquake Because the city is running out of people to honor on the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, this year San Francisco named noted angel investor, tech lobbyist and Ed Lee crutch Ron Conway
SF News By Mayor Lee's Decree, Sunday Parking Will Be Free At last night's meeting, the SFMTA board approved a controversial plan, set in motion earlier this year during the Mayor's State of the City address, to return to the heady, circa-2012 days of
SF News What The Hell Is Going On With Free Sunday Parking Meters? Earlier this year, Mayor Ed Lee announced during his State of the City address that Muni was no longer underfunded and thus, the city could end the year-long experiment that was charging for
SF News 'Extraordinary American' Mayor Ed Lee Will Spend The Evening With Michelle Obama San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, just back from a trip to Washington, D.C., will return to the nation's capital tonight to chill with the nation's coolest mom during the State of the
SF News Free Wi-Fi Now Available On Market Street From Castro To The Embarcadero As part of the city's efforts to embrace technology as a democratizing (rather than polarizing) force, Mayor Ed Lee announced today the first step in a long-awaited municipal Wi-Fi service. Starting today, you'll
SF News Mayor Lee Shows Concern For The Underpaid, Talks $15 Minimum Wage With San Francisco's minimum wage set to bump up to $10.74 in 2014 and fast food workers walking off the job in Oakland, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is beginning to show
SF News Loaded Tech Guy Does Nice Thing For S.F. Schools Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff announced today that his company will donate $2.7 million to "the most important resource in San Francisco" — middle school kids. The donation will help bring the math
Arts & Entertainment Video: Goofball Mayor Ed Lee Misses Easy Layup A previously mentioned, Mayor Ed Lee held a special ceremony Monday to prop up the Warriors Arena announce the Super Bowl in Santa Clara celebrate Stephen Curry's three-point record with a key to
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
Arts & Entertainment Today In Awkward Photos Of The Mayor: Niners Excitement Cannot Be Contained Mayor Lee is fired up about the 49ers taking on the Green Bay Packers in this Saturday's NFC playoff game, but you wouldn't know it from this awkward photo his office posted to
SF News Mayor Lee Defends Being Boring During Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting (which we did not attend because of how last week's meeting sucked the will to live right out of us), Supervisor David Campos questioned the value of
SF News S.F. To Paris: 'Oui, Je T'aime Encore!' Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe paid a visit to the best city in America (allegedly) yesterday. Aside from enjoying some of our world-class leisure amenities (and probably making fun of our wine), Delanoe was
