SF News Who Will Replace Scott Wiener On the Board Of Supervisors? With District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener headed off to Sacramento, the Board of Supervisors is soon to be Wiener-less. Who will fill the gaping void on that governing body for the City and
SF News Scott Wiener Narrowly Defeats Jane Kim In Costly State Senate Race My boss @Scott_Wiener speaking at his election night party. "If Trump wins, we have to fight." pic.twitter.com/ND5natHRVF— Rashad Alaiyan (@rashadalaiyan) November 9, 2016 Supervisor Scott Wiener is celebrating a
SF News Gay Shame, AKA The 'Queers Hate Techies' Cabal, Target Local Campaign Offices, Wiener The loosely affiliated rabble-rousing group Gay Shame, which has for years postered the city in protest of mainstream LGBT groups and SF Pride, in support of Chelsea Manning, and last year with posters
SF News Map: San Franciscans Want New Subway Lines Pretty Much Everywhere San Francisco has some decent public transit, but huge chunks of the city are conspicuously under-served. Right now, for example, The Examiner tells us that only 25 percent of jobs are within walking
SF News Kim And Wiener Kissing Rings For Drag Queen Endorsements It’s an old rule of politics that “endorsements don’t matter." But the old rules are getting served some new San Francisco realness by an emerging constituency of unexpected political power brokers
SF News Record Company Dings Drag Queens Supporting Scott Wiener For Use Of Katy Perry Song Did the use of Katy Perry's "Firework" in a video plug for Scott Wiener just explode in the Supervisor's face? As the politician campaigns against Jane Kim for a state senate seat in
SF News Scott Wiener's State Senate Campaign Received $30K In Donations From Strip Clubs In his heated bid for State Senate, Supervisor Scott Wiener raised more than $1 million by June, making the contest with Supervisor Jane Kim already the most expensive in the history of the
SF News Design Your Dream SF Subway System With New SFMTA Tool San Francisco public transit riders can be forgiven for giving in to the occasional fantasy. Hopeful, even wistful maps of what local transportation might have been or might yet be are widely made
SF News Nude Trump Statue Removed, May Get New Home At Lefty O'Doul's The naked likeness of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump surreptitiously installed yesterday in the Castro has found an unlikely champion: Anti-nudity Supervisor Scott Wiener. Wiener, who is known for his successful 2012 campaign
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Calls Out SFMTA, SFPD For Ignoring Double-Parkers "Are Tickets for Double Parking A Real Thing?" we asked back in 2013, with nearly 80 percent of the respondents to our survey answering "no." And it appears that San Francisco Supervisor/District
SF News Prosecutorial Overreach Claimed In Case Involving Scott Wiener's Stolen Phone While we all know that stealing is bad (duh), and can have serious consequences both for victims and thieves, stealing from a law-and-order elected official is likely to turn out notably worse for
Arts & Entertainment Jane Kim Beats Scott Wiener In Pokémon Go Contest A couple weeks back, Jane Kim challenged Scott Wiener to a Pokémon Go race, and Wiener accepted. The two rivals for one of SF's state senate seats held their contest Saturday, and with
SF News Kim Proposes Yet Another Measure To Deal With Homeless Encampments Supervisor Jane Kim yesterday introduced a measure that would set terms by which the city engages with tent encampments and the homeless residents who call them home. This, reports the Chronicle, is the
SF News Wiener Rejects Kim's 'Positive Campaign Pledge' In State Senate Campaign Ads In the tight race for the District 11 State Senate seat, current SF Supervisor Jane Kim asked her opponent, Supervisor Scott Wiener, to sign a "positive campaign pledge" last week that would have
SF News Kim, Critical Of Wiener's PAC Support, Took State Senate Lead After PG&E-Backed PAC Ad In what was by early June already the most expensive District 11 State Senate Race ever of all time, political action committee money apparently flowed freely on both sides. Until now, Scott Wiener
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kim Actually Beat Wiener In Primary By 370 Votes Despite Apple’s decision to boycott the GOP convention, the company’s CEO Tim Cook plans to host a fundraiser for Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. And it's common for Apple
SF News Tight District 11 State Senate Race Gets Tighter, As Kim Surpasses Wiener In SF A race that's already known as the most expensive District 11 Senate matchup ever might soon gain another remarkable element, as one of the tightest in recent memory. The day after the June
SF News Pride Organizers, Castro Businesses Reassess Security Measures In Wake Of Orlando Shooting Following the deadly mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, Supervisor Scott Wiener is convening safety meetings with the SFPD and members of the LGBT nightlife community to discuss security preparations for the upcoming
SF News Wiener Leads Kim In (Merely Symbolic) State Senate Primary As Both Advance To November Election In a heated (read: lots of mailers) race for the District 11 State Senate seat currently occupied by Mark Leno, who is due to be termed-out, two Democratic San Francisco Supervisors — Scott Wiener
SF News Wiener vs. Kim Already Most Expensive District 11 State Senate Race Ever As you can tell by the six pounds of glossy junk mail flyers arriving daily in your mailbox, there is a primary election underway with voting this Tuesday, June 7. The only significant,
SF News Rec And Parks To Kill Dolores Park Rental Program Following Backlash San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will not extend the Dolores Park reservation pilot program we broke the news on yesterday following its mid-July scheduled completion. The program allowed people to reserve sections
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Escalator Unveiled In Castro Welcomes Visitors To 'Gay Disneyland' A photo posted by Darwin Bell (@darwinbell) on May 19, 2016 at 9:27pm PDT While the population of the Castro may be getting a lot straighter, thanks to SFMTA the gayberhood's escalators
SF News Pink Saturday Officially Cancelled This Year Pink Saturday is no more. The street party that has traditionally taken place the Saturday before the Pride parade, dubbed the Pink Party last year, will not happen this year, reports The Bay
SF News Mayor Refuses To Allow Likely Statewide Smoking Age Increase To Rain On Local Prohibition Parade Though buying cigarettes might soon become a 21-and-over activity for any smoking Californian, San Francisco isn't content to wait for Governor Jerry Brown to decide if he's gonna OK the package of tobacco
SF News Cigarette Buying No Longer An All-Ages Event in SF, As Supes Vote To Raise Tobacco Purchase Age To 21 We warned you back in November, and now it's official: After an unanimous vote at the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, San Francisco will soon raise the age one is allowed to purchase tobacco
