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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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