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.
SF Politics Pro-Trump Trans Woman Emerges As Challenger for Scott Wiener A gun-loving Republican trans woman originally from Mississippi has declared herself a candidate for Scott Wiener's state senate seat, which comes up for election next year.
SF Politics Wiener Wages Rhetorical War on Cupertino’s Plan B For Giant ‘Dead Mall’ Cupertino’s enormous and empty Vallco shopping mall has seen a zigzag of fortunes in the quest to turn it into a large housing development, and state Senator Scott Wiener is furious over the latest compromise.
SF News Scott Wiener's Latest 4 A.M. Last Call Bill Clears Senate, Heads To Assembly Remember that bill to extend alcohol service hours in select California cities, once a dream of former State Senator Mark Leno, and more recently taken up multiple times by State Senator Scott Wiener? Well it's back alive, and there's a new governor in office who might not veto it.
SF News Wiener's Housing Density Bill Gets Put Off Until 2020 By State Senate Committee Sen. Scott Wiener's contentious Senate Bill 50, which is aimed at forcing denser zoning in larger California cities in neighborhoods near transit hubs, is now dead for the time being.
SF News Offensive Campaign By LA-Based Activist Group Compares Wiener Housing Bill To 1960s Urban Renewal A well funded Los Angeles-based AIDS organization has focused its attention recently on an opposition campaign to thwart state Senate Bill 50 (SB50), the latest effort by Sen. Scott Wiener to push for greater housing density near transit hubs.
SF News Wiener To Push for Rush-Hour Congestion Pricing In San Francisco Surge pricing won’t just be for Uber and Lyft anymore if Scott Wiener gets his way, as congestion pricing could be applied to all cars in certain California cities.
SF News Soda Warning Label Law Blocked, Citing Soda Companies' First Amendment Rights Two years after San Francisco passed a law requiring soda companies to place warnings on their advertisements and billboards, a federal appeals court has blocked the requirement with an injunction saying that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bill To Extend Last Call To 4 A.M. Appears Dead, Yet Again A valiant effort by state Senator Scott Wiener to allow California cities to extend last call at bars and clubs to 4 a.m. appears yet again dead in the water. As the
SF News Regarding The History Of Public Nudity In San Francisco It's been a while since we were debating Scott Wiener's nudity ban, which took effect in 2012 and has resulted in several older nudist gentlemen who frequent Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro
SF News Scott Wiener Says Right-Wing 'Conference' In Alamo Square 'Cannot Be Allowed To Happen' State Senator Scott Wiener, in what's likely just the first of many official statements condemning Patriot Prayer's ditching of a highly regulated, permitted event plan at Crissy Field in favor of an unpermitted
SF News Lawmakers Call For Alt-Right Group's Crissy Field Permit To Be Rescinded California lawmakers are calling on the National Park Service to rescind a permit they've issued for a gathering of alt-right figures, conservatives, and likely white nationalists at Crissy Field next weekend. The event,
SF News Pro-Development 'YIMBYtown' Conference Kicks Off In Oakland The YIMBY movement is not just a San Francisco thing, and this weekend in Oakland, self-described YIMBYs are gathering in Oakland for the second annual YIMBYtown conference, sharing ideas about how to get
