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
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
