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
SF News Mayor Wants To Reroute Caltrain Past Warriors Arena, Tear Down 280 Overpass The big news being broken by mustache twins Matier & Ross today is a potential plan, unveiled in a closed-door meeting last week at City Hall, to drastically rethink the routing of Caltrain
SF News Both Campos And Guy Vying For His Seat Push To Halt Market-Rate Development In The Mission Dueling paths toward to a potential moratorium on market-rate development in the Mission moved forward this week. One is a two-year, temporary measure that Supervisor David Campos wants to pass via a vote
SF News With Pot Legalization Likely, Scott Wiener Wants To Talk About Local Regulations Sniffing the horizon, last month Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom's Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy released a "roadmap" for legalization. Today Supervisor Scott Weiner is following suit at the city level, announcing that
SF News Mandatory Gray Water Requirement For New Buildings Set To Freak Out Developers Supervisor Scott Wiener, who's often accused of being in the pocket of developers, has just proposed an aggressive, drought-conscious piece of legislation that would require all new developments in particular the huge and
SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
Arts & Entertainment Local Nightclub Owners Make Noise At City Hall Over Shutdown Threats From New Condos Lucky 13 and the Elbo Room are currently endangered. Cafe Du Nord, The Lexington, Club Cocomo and others are already gone or counting down the days. Nightclub owners aren’t laying down anymore,
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, Pink Saturday Not Cancelled, Will End Early And Be Paid For By City Though the story that Pink Saturday was cancelled was widely, incorrectly reported a couple weeks back, the fact is that with or without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence manning the gates, 10,000
SF News Will Car-Free Late-Night Streets Encourage More Nightlife? San Francisco's economy doesn't sleep. When Supervisor Scott Wiener and the Mayor’s Office, Entertainment Commission, and County Transportation Authority released a Late Night Transportation Plan earlier this week, the report emphasized that
SF News Campos Calls Wiener 'The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan' In Re: Housing Policy On this week's episode of Board of Supervisors Inside Baseball, we have a little bit of a scuffle happening between Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. After Wiener unleashed a barbed essay earlier
SF News Is The Answer Simply More Housing, Or More Affordable Housing? The Debate Rages On. After Supervisor David Campos last week started suggesting that the Mission neighborhood might need a moratorium on new market-rate housing construction, the debate has been reignited again over whether our housing crisis is
SF News Once Home To Nudists, Castro Plaza Now Just A Magnet For Unruly Homeless Youths Jane Warner Plaza, the small plaza that began as a temporary parklet in 2009 after the city closed off the intersection where 17th Street meets Market and Castro, is drawing negative attention from
SF News Federal Judge Allows Nudists' Suit Against City To Move Forward The crusade to retain the right to be naked in the streets of San Francisco marches on as a federal judge has whittled down a lawsuit brought by nudist activists against the City
