SF News City Tentatively Approves CleanPowerSF Public Power Initiative In yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to approve CleanPowerSF — the city's first step in toppling PG&E's longstanding monopoly. In addition to offering a local customers the choice to
SF News Mayor Lee Ditches Stop-And-Frisk Plan That Nobody Wanted Anyway Today, during a press event in the Bayview, Ed Lee will announce that he will drop plans to implement a controversial stop-and-frisk policy after everyone from community groups to the Board of Supervisors
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Uses 'Dark Knight' Massacre To Push Stop-And-Frisk Plan Even though no one else is on board with the proposal, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee continues to push for a controversial Stop-and-Frisk policy in the wake of the tragic shooting in Aurora,
SF News If Mayor Lee Loves Stop-And-Frisk So Much, Why Doesn't He Marry It? New updates today on Mayor Lee's controversial pet project, Actually, the only update is that, outside of the Mayor's office, no one seems to think exploring a stop-and-frisk policy is a good idea
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Lee's Pinterest Page Is Predictably Mediocre In an official announcement from the Mayor's office today, Ed Lee and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann revealed that the latter will be moving his company and its social networking scrapbook service from dull,
SF News Mayor Lee Rewarded With Buckets Of Your Discarded Leftovers After reaching one-million tons of diverted compost back in November, Mayor Lee finally got around celebrating the momentous occasion with the city's recycling program yesterday. As ABC7 reports, Mayor Mustache commemorated all those
SF News Mayor Lee Names Vicki Hennessy Interim Sheriff In today's final update in the ongoing Mirkarimi saga, Mayor Lee named former S.F. Department of Energy Director Vicki Hennessy as Mirkarimi's replacement during the misconduct investigation. Hennessy (no relation to long-time
SF News Breaking: Mayor Lee Asks Ross Mirkarimi To Resign By 4 P.M. Today Although the Mayor's office has yet to make an official announcement, the Chronicle is now reporting that Mayor Lee made clear his stance on Ross Mirkarimi's guilty plea. In a private meeting between
SF News Piers 30 And 32 Won't Get Makeovers In Downsized America's Cup Deal In the latest updates from the America's Cup, a key real estate deal that would help rehabilitate the city's eastern waterfront has been cut back by the city. Under the new deal Mayor
SF News Federal Money Coming Through For Central Subway Mayor Ed Lee today announced the arrival of a "letter of non-prejudice" (whatever that is) from the Department of Transportation which he says is a "strong sign" that the $1 billion+ in federal
SF News It Has Been A Whole Year Since That Former S.F. Supervisor Promised To Haunt City Hall Remember way back in January 2011, when the promise of a mayor with less exciting hair and a refreshed lineup at the Board of Supervisors had every political wonk in town excited for
SF News Did Mayor Lee Just Take Credit For Increasing Minimum Wage? As every news outlet in town noted yesterday, San Francisco's minimum wage will break $10 starting January 1st, making it the country's highest. (Maybe. Depending on whether you count Santa Cruz as being
SF News The Mission Doesn't Want Occupy SF To Move There Either Although members of Occupy SF voted last week to reject the city's offer to move to 16th and Mission, some campers thought they might find support among the working-class denizens of the Mission
SF News Mayor Lee, Supervisors Wrap Up Healthy SF Loophole After the Board of Supervisors narrowly approved reformed Healthy SF legislation yesterday, the Mayor quickly signed off on the bill that will solved the so-called "January 1 Problem". The reform measure popped up
SF News Mayor Lee To Move Occupy SF To Sketchy Mission Block The SF Occupiers have been on the edge of their sleeping bags the past few days waiting for the next raid, but Matier & Ross have a bead on the behind-the-scenes negotiations happening
SF News All Quiet at Occupy SF Last Night After getting all worked up over an impending raid on the camp, Occupy SF still stands as of this morning. Despite yesterday's eviction notice from the DPW, Mayor Lee has yet to give
SF News Avalos Will Wait for Outstanding Ballots, Won't Concede Just Yet Despite every daily paper calling this Mayor's race for interim Mayor Ed Lee, John Avalos continues to stick it to the man, as it were. Although Lee promised to call every one of
SF News Facetious Mustache Institute Endorses Ed Lee for Mayor In another case of out-of-town interests meddling in our local mayoral election, the St. Louis-based (maybe) American Mustache Institute has endorsed our mustachioed temporary mayor in next week's election. The AMI, which considers
SF News San Francisco Gets Its Own Special Victims Unit No, not an addition to the Law & Order franchise, an actual division of the San Francisco Police Department: Mayor Lee and SFPD Chief Greg Suhr announced yesterday the department would be consolidating
SF News Jane Kim Visits Occupy SF, Protesters Plan Midday Rally at City Hall Although vague twitter rumors seemed to suggest a tense mood at the Occupy SF encampment last night, the only confrontation on Justin Herman Plaza was D6 supe Jane Kim sticking it to Mayor
SF News Mayoral Candidates Vote for Themselves As we mentioned earlier early voting opened today at City Hall. Right on cue, candidates David Chiu, Joanna Rees and Mayor Ed Lee all showed up to cast their votes. Luckily, one of
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from Friday and Saturday at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Sunshine! Famous people making music! Other people also making music! Lots of people not making music! Food Vendors! Dr. House on a Piano! Mayor Ed Lee! All of those things were in Golden
