SF News State Senate Approves Bill To Protect LGBT Seniors A bill authored by state Senator Scott Wiener and sponsored by Equality California to protect the rights of LGBT seniors in long-term care facilities was passed Wednesday by the California state Senate in
SF News Proposal To Sell Booze Til 4 A.M. Clears CA Senate Committee Late-night boozebags will be raising a toast to State Sen. Scott Wiener this week, as his proposal to move last call for alcohol to as late as 4 a.m. has successfully passed
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 News Rafael Mandelman Once Again Throws His Hat In The District 8 Supervisor Ring For those constituents of District 8, encompassing the Castro, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, Diamond Heights, Duboce Triangle, and a piece of the Mission District, and for those who just enjoy local political intrigues,
SF News Bill Giving Cities Option To Extend Bar Hours To 4 A.M. Passes Committee State Senator Scott Wiener's bill that would allow cities to decide if bars and clubs may serve alcohol past the current 2 a.m. statewide last call has passed a first test: The
SF News Scott Wiener Calls Trump 'Manchurian Candidate' From State Senate Floor State Senator Scott Wiener demonstrated his ability to provide popular liberal soundbites in 2015, when the then Castro Supervisor told a Fox News TV crew, cameras rolling, that they were a "fringe propaganda
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces State Bill To Reduce Felony For HIV-Positive People Not Telling Partners Their Status A law that makes it a felony to knowingly expose another person to HIV by having unprotected sex with them without disclosing one's positive HIV status is being targeted by State Senator and
SF News Supervisor Farrell Proposes FasTrak System, Reservations For Famous Lombard Street Block Living at a tourist attraction continues to takes its toll on Russian Hill neighbors with houses along the famous one-way crooked section of Lombard Street, and so they continue to demand that something,
SF News Party On: New Bill Could Extend Last Call To 4 a.m. "California currently has a one-size-fits-all 2 a.m. end to alcohol service, regardless of circumstances," State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener writes to his Facebook page — with "circumstances" referring to situations
SF News New 'Non-Binary' Gender Option Proposed For California Driver's Licenses A bill introduced in California's state senate Thursday would allow residents to choose a third, “nonbinary” gender option on driver’s licenses and birth certificates, as well as allowing parents of transgender kids
SF News Mayor Lee Announces New District 8 Supe, Openly HIV-Positive Glen Park Resident Jeff Sheehy As was expected, Mayor Lee has filled outgoing Supervisor Scott Wiener's seat on the Board of Supervisors unofficially the "gay seat" on the board since it was originally held by Harvey Milk with
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Is Home To 3 Of The State's 10 Most Dangerous Intersections Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Judge Aaron Persky, whose lenient sentence for Brock Turner
SF News District 8 Will Likely Be Without A Supervisor Until January Supervisor Scott Wiener narrowly beat out Supervisor Jane Kim in his effort to become District 11's next state Senator. As he will be vacating his current role of San Francisco District 8 supervisor,
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
