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
SF News Sex Offender Clinic Backs Down, Won't Open In Duboce Triangle After All Following Monday's angry community meeting over a proposed clinic for sex offenders near Duboce Park, the clinic's owners have announced that they won't be opening in the area, after all. At this point,
SF News Scott Wiener Halts Angry Meeting About Sex Offender Clinic Over Incivility .@Scott_Wiener has to stop mtg regarding sex offender rehab facility to keep it cordial. @SF4SafeDuboce #abc7now pic.twitter.com/2Jb3dW06ub— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) February 9, 2016 First he temporarily halted sex offender
SF News Nevius Thinks You Should Stop Buying Tents For The Homeless Here at SFist we can sometimes go months without paying much attention to the thrice weekly rantings of prickly local character and Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. But between the Mario Woods case,
SF News Tent City Residents Fear City Efforts To Corral Them Ahead Of Super Bowl Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood — the tent city located on Division Street under the overpass — are worried. But as the Super Bowl approaches and the city swells with tourists, the homeless living
SF News Uproar Begins As Supervisor Wiener Tries To Enforce Tent Ban On Homeless Postcards from SF: Our homeless camp stretching 0.8 mile, both sides of the street from 13th/Otis to 13th/San Bruno. pic.twitter.com/JIMGn7L7Fi— Violet Blue ® (@violetblue) January 22, 2016 Three
SF News Supervisor Wiener Asks For Hold On Duboce Sex Offender Clinic Duboce Triangle residents have been granted more time to sharpen their pitchforks and light their torches: Sharper Future, the sex offender rehabilitation center expected to "quietly" open on 100 Church Street at Duboce
SF News Supervisor Wiener Thwarts 'Not A Very Well-Thought-Out' Phone Theft Snatching Supervisor Scott Wiener's phone at 16th and Valencia was "not a very well-thought-out crime," or so the politician told San Francisco magazine. Indeed, the suspiciously tall Castro Supervisor was able to recover
SF News City Marijuana Task Force Named Ahead Of Probable State Legalization This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will
SF News Under 21? Then Forget About Buying Smokes In SF, Says Supe Though an effort to raise California's smoking age to 21 stalled last month in the state Assembly, that won't stop a couple San Francisco lawmakers from trying to impose tighter regulations for young
SF News Measure Mandating Condoms In Porn Approved For November Ballot A measure that would mandate all pornographic film performers in California wear condoms during shoots will be on the 2016 ballot next November. The Secretary of State yesterday announced that the measure had
SF News Mission To Lose 8,000 Latino Residents By 2025, Report Warns If trends as we know them continue, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts that, as a proportion of the Mission District, the percentage of Latinos will decline from 48 percent in
SF News Jane Kim Takes On Scott Wiener In State Senate Race The otherwise sedate race to fill the soon-to-be empty 11th District state Senate seat of Mark Leno (in 2016) just got a little more interesting, with word coming that San Francisco Supervisor Jane
SF News After Threatening Fliers Appear In The Mission, Tech Workers Reportedly Change Their Clothes Anyone who's surprised that there's tension between those who've recently moved to San Francisco for jobs in the tech industry and those who lived here before this new wave arrived — well, you're probably
SF News Proposed Condos At Pagoda Theater Site Could Stymie Central Subway Extension Plan With the goal of expanding the Central Subway project from Chinatown to Fisherman's Wharf, an oft-cited item on the SFMTA's future project "wish list," Supervisor Julie Christensen is pushing the City of San
SF News City Report Says Moratorium Won't Help Mission affordable housing advocates are going to want to take a new report from the city's chief economist that says the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing isn't going to do anything to stem
SF News Supervisor Wiener Really Set On Subway Construction, Introduces 'Master Plan' Legislation Supervisor Scott Wiener prides himself on having his finger to the pulse of San Francisco public transit. But that pulse, he notes, can sometimes be faint. We aren't doing enough, Wiener says, to
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Route For Tomorrow's Naked Bike Ride: Seek Or Avoid It As You Please San Francisco may not be the stronghold of public nudity it once was thanks to the bowdlerization efforts of a certain Supervisor. But try telling that to the cyclists signed up on Facebook
SF News Scott Wiener: 'Fox News Is A Fringe Propaganda Machine' "Did you hear what Scott Wiener did? He's an American hero!" a friend IMed to me today. No, the District 8 Supervisor/Senate hopeful didn't save a puppy from a burning building or
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
SF News Supervisor Scott Wiener Announces Bid For State Senate Setting the political stage for a contest more than a year and a half away, Muni-loving, nudity-banning District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has announced his candidacy for State Senate. The Democrat just unveiled
SF News Nudist Activists Claim Victory, Get $20K In Settlement With City Over Citations The legal battles over Scott Wiener's 2012 nudity ban linger on, and today SFist received an update from one of the lead nudity activists/"body freedom protesters" and all around fun character Gypsy
SF News [Updated] Supes Approve Soda Ad Warnings; Will Iconic SoMa Coca-Cola Billboard Get One? The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve warning labels on all print and billboard ads for sodas and sugary drinks in the city, akin to the warnings seen on tobacco
SF News Supervisors Kill Moratorium On Mission Market-Rate Housing, 'This Is Not The End' Says Campos The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted down a proposed temporary moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District last night, putting an end to an exhausting eight-hour meeting. Supervisors Mark Farrell, Scott
SF News Supervisors Help Kick Off 22-Day Muni Challenge With Rally At City Hall Fun times at our rally to kick off the 22-day #MuniChallenge. #OnBoardSF pic.twitter.com/1XPqpAg1yU— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 1, 2015 Back in April the SF Transit Riders Union challenged the