SF News SF Forced by State to Streamline Housing Approvals After Missing 2023 Production Goals State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill intended to eliminate reviews and challenges to housing proposals has now done just that, as the state just forced San Francisco to streamline approvals and massively speed up housing production.
SF News New State Legislation Targets Street Vendors Selling Stolen Goods, Permitted Vendors Are All For It The latest attempt at a crackdown on illegal street vending is a law that hopes to separate the legal, permitted vendors from the folks just selling stolen stuff, and the legal vendors on Mission Street say it’s a step in the right direction.
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Halt Environmental Reviews In Downtown SF for 10 Years As downtown San Francisco still has a glut of unused office space, state Senator Scott Wiener says he’s pushing legislation for a decade-long elimination of the environmental review mandate known as CEQA from downtown projects, in hopes of spurring conversion to uses like housing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wiener Proposes New Downtown Booze Zones Where You Can Walk Around With To-Go Drinks State Senator Scott Wiener has introduced new legislation to create "Entertainment Zones" to help San Francisco's downtown with its economic recovery, activating certain designated areas where people would be free to roam with their booze.
SF News Scott Wiener Wants Devices In Cars That Won’t Let Them Go More Than 10 MPH Over the Speed Limit The latest legislation from SF’s state Senator Scott Wiener takes aim at speeding drivers, and calls for all cars sold in California to have devices that don’t allow drivers to go more than 10 MPH over the speed limit.
SF News Newsom Vetoes Wiener’s Magic Mushrooms Bill, Haney’s Bill That Would Have Allowed Cannabis Cafes Two groundbreaking drug bills from SF's state legislators went to pot on Gavin Newsom’s desk, as he’s vetoed state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.
SF News Wiener Proposes $1.50 Bridge Toll Hike To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ With Muni at risk of slashing 20 lines and BART threatening to eliminate weekend service, state Senator Scott Wiener hopes to eliminate their deficits with a $1.50 toll increase on seven Bay Area bridges.
SF Politics Sister Roma Honored In State Capitol For Pride Month, Despite GOP Lawmakers Throwing A Fit Republicans are making a habit of disinviting drag nuns The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride events, but they couldn’t stop Monday’s honoring of Sister Roma at the California State Capitol, where Sister Roma ended up getting a standing ovation.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Takes First Official Steps Toward a Run For Congress State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener is making moves in preparation to run for Nancy Pelosi's House seat next year, assuming she plans to retire, which she has not said she will.
SF News Newsom’s Proposed Budget Slashes $2 Billion From Public Transportation, Legislators Up In Arms With California now looking at a $22.5 billion budget deficit, one area Governor Newsom wants to tighten the strings is public transit. But transit heads and legislators say they're already saddled with a fiscal cliff and service cuts.
SF News Homophobic Protesters Attempt to Disrupt Family-Oriented Castro Holiday Event A group of agitators who likely came from far out of town descended on the Castro Sunday to preach intolerance and tell people they should be taking their kids to church instead of to see drag queens read stories.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Scott Wiener Once Again Faces Bomb Threat State Senator Scott Wiener once again had bomb-sniffing dogs at his home today, Meta's Oversight Board is urging changes to Facebook's "XCheck" system for celebrities, and Apple is being sued over AirTag stalking.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Shuts Down Hateful Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweet After Her Account Was Reinstated Elon Musk's decision to reinstate the personal Twitter account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going super well!
SF News Trial Underway for Guy Who Allegedly Threatened to Kill Scott Wiener Over Vaccine Legislation State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent; which led to an anti-vaxxer saying “expect a visit from me and my rifle,” which led to that fellow now being on trial on eight felony counts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4AM Last Call Bill Voted Down Once Again, This Time In the Assembly Say what you will about state Senator Senator Scott Wiener, he has been indisputably steadfast in his commitment to passing a bill extending last call at bars and nightclubs to 4 a.m. — even if it's just in SF and a couple of other cities.
SF News Local LGBTQ Groups Protest Outside SF Federal Building Over Monkeypox Response Local leaders and members of several LGTBQ organizations gathered outside the Federal Building in SoMa on Monday to call on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to send more monkeypox vaccine to San Francisco.
SF Politics Sen. Scott Wiener Has Home Searched for Bombs After Weekend's Wingnut Death Threats Bomb-sniffing dogs were called in at the home of State Senator Scott Wiener over the weekend, after a message claiming “we placed bombs in his office and his house” was sent to his staff.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.
SF Politics Scott Wiener's Bills Expanding Outdoor Drinking Rules Pass Unanimously In Committee Two outdoor booze-related bills introduced in February in the California State House by Senator Scott Wiener have passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Legalize Psychedelics Statewide The bill would decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin (mushrooms), molly, LSD, ketamine, DMT, and mescaline, among other things.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scott Wiener Introduces Bill Easing Liquor Laws Around Parklets, Shared Spaces (But Not To-Go Cocktails) A new bill introduced Friday aims to help all of that continue on a more permanent basis — but, sadly, it doesn't include the ongoing legalization of to-go and delivery cocktails, so we won't be turning into New Orleans just yet.
SF Politics QAnon Goes Wild On Wiener Over Sex Offender Registration Bill State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill, SB 145, seeks to treat straight and LGBTQ people the same under sex offender registry laws. The response has been death threats and doxxing from the right wing.
SF News Scott Wiener's Bill to Speed Up Transit, Bike, and Pedestrian Projects Passes State Legislature A bill to change the way that public transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects are handled vis a vis the state's environmental impact laws has passed the legislature. And State Senator Scott Wiener, the sponsor of the bill, hopes it will aid in California's economic recovery after the pandemic.
SF News Wiener Introduces PG&E Public-Takeover Plan, Utility’s Stock Jumps 12 Percent Anyway PG&E wants to dig out of their problems by just adding some safety experts to their board, but state Senator Scott Wiener would prefer to end PG&E as we know it.
SF Politics Wiener’s Controversial SB-50 Housing Bill Dies for Third Consecutive Year A 20-hour scramble to whip up more support for a do-over vote has failed, and Sen. Scott Wiener’s high-density housing plan fell short yet again.
