SF Politics Supervisor Catherine Stefani Has Filed to Run For State Assembly In 2024 Assemblymember Phil Ting’s seat is up for grabs next year, and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani has filed to run for it — she's also changed her Twitter handle, and set up a campaign website.
SF News UC Berkeley May Be Granted Legislative Workaround for Enrollment Cap Fight Legislators in Sacramento are working to craft a quick solution to the University of California's legal battle with a citizens' group in Berkeley, in order that they may be able to admit 2,000 more students this month. And it entails a small revision to CEQA.
SF Politics SF Legislators Call Bulls**t on School District's Scheme to Get $12 Million In State Funding for Reopening San Francisco's legislative delegation in Sacramento is calling out the SF School Board for their attempt to reap the benefits of a state funding program without actually complying with the spirit of the legislation that backed the program.
SF News Assembly Committee Mulls Bill To Allow California Cyclists To Roll Through Stop Signs There’s been significant gnashing of teeth and grinding of gears in San Francisco over the controversial, so-called “Idaho stop” — the practice of bicycles yielding instead of hard stopping at intersections with stop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bill Seeks To Add 25 SF Liquor Licenses To Longtime Fixed Number A 1939 California law tying the number of liquor licenses for restaurants and bars per county to that county's population had to make an exception for San Francisco. Our impressive number of booze-peddling
SF News Banning Pedestrian Toll, Governor Brown Trolls Golden Gate Bridge For some time, there's been discussion of doing what hasn't been done in 45 years — charging pedestrians (and, for that matter, cyclists) to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. In fact, it really looked
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Mayoral Candidate Car Wash Jeff Adachi, John Avalos, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting, and Leland Yee will all sport their finest bikinis (or not) during this Saturday's fundraiser car wash for McKinley
SF News Phil Ting Attacks Mayor Lee, Asks Candidates to Stop Attacks San Francisco Assessor-Recorder and mayoral candidate Phil Ting today demanded fellow candidate Mayor Ed Lee to follow the rules of public financing spending limits. 'If Mayor Lee wants to raise money outside of
Arts & Entertainment Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Avalos' Happy Hour, Dufty and Chiu's Jazz Hands, Joanna Rees' Coffee Talks John Avalos: San Francisco's League of Pissed Off Voters has stepped up (or jumped the gun, depending on how you look at it) and named the progressive candidate/oldies DJ as their official
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's SF Mayoral Open Government Forum Arriving late to the Pier 38 offices of Automattic yesterday evening for a mayoral candidate forum on Open Government, we caught the tail end of opening remarks from a panel comprised of the
SF News Phil Ting Not Excited About MTA's Parking Ticket Plan City Assessor and Mayoral Candidate Phil Ting wasn't too keen on MTA's plan to increase the number of parking tickets they hand out this year. So he did what every reasonable person who
SF News S.F. Set to Start Marrying, But They Need Volunteers San Francisco is gearing up to marry people. But they need volunteers! Might you be one of them? SF Appeal reports, "Sometime in the next week or so, Judge Walker is expected to
SF News San Francisco Assessor Wants to Raise Property Taxes on Corporations San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting is starting a campaign to amend Proposition 13, the 31-year-old ballot measure that limits the increase of property taxes statewide to 2% a year. He argues that corporations
misc Rebuffed at San Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day Marriage Equality USA held an event at City Hall yesterday to get the word out about "the 1,138 federal marriage rights as well as the hundreds of state rights same sex couples
SF News Society Snaps: Gavin and Friends OK. Hmm. We're not sure if politicians and public servants count as society folk, regardless of their top-drawer Getty connections. (We think once you're in office, we at SFist must then considered you
Arts & Entertainment Don't Borrow Trouble SFist Jim is going to kill us, since he sent us these pictures on the promise that we'd write something up about the panel that Sen. Leland Yee (above) and Assessor Phil Ting
SF News Mark Leno Kicks Things Off Today, at the Yerba Buena Gardens, officially Mark Leno kicked off his "Stick it to Carole Migden" campaign. In attendance were such notables as Phil Ting, Kamala Harris, and the Ma-ster. Leno is
Arts & Entertainment Phil Ting kicks off the S.F. Solar Task Force Standing atop the Moscone Center this afternoon, S.F. Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced the creation of the San Francisco Solar Task Force. It plans to issue a set of recommendations to assist San
SF News Wonks Win A reader passed along a picture from today's press conference with City Treasurer José Cisneros and City Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting, where they bragged about how they collected $24 million more than expected in
Arts & Entertainment Assessor-Recorder Swearing In SFist Jim stopped by the swearing-in for San Francisco assessor-recorder (and buzzed-about mayoral possibility?) Phil Ting last night and snapped these pictures for us. Yes, that is a subdued-looking Gavin Newsom, hiding in
SF News Everything Else Results National They called the race for Feinstein like 5 minutes after the polls closed in California. Pelosi is not only going to win, she's going to be the next Speaker of the House!
Arts & Entertainment Bill Clinton, Prop 87, And Civic Center Mike Yay, Civic Center Mike's back from Palm Springs! And what should he stumble upon while wheeling his suitcases out of the BART station but Bill Clinton's Yes on 87 Rally! (87 is the
misc Housing Bubbles: <strike>Bush</strike> Mission v. Gore Well, if those gloomy housing forecasts weren't enough, it's now official, folks -- the San Francisco real estate bubble has burst. "Kiss of Death" Al Gore has bought a house here. Al and
SF News Phil Ting Wins The Crown Just like Ron Chun dreamed it would be -- His Highness Gavin triumphantly hands Phil Ting the coveted assessor/recorder scepter! Ting was the only one who had to go through the RCV
