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
SF News Video: Noe Street Vandal Rips Apart Sapling In a video passed on to Supervisor Scott Wiener, a vandal tears down a young tree on Noe Street. It's senseless and kind of awful, but here it is on the chance the
SF News Scott Wiener Has A Plan To Take Care Of Falling Street Trees You know all those notices that have been plastic-wrapped to trees all over town informing adjacent homeowners that responsibility for the maintenance of street trees next to their property is being transferred to
SF News Jane Kim's Shoes Win Everything: Observations From My Tour Of Election Victory Parties Last Night I've never been to any Election Night parties in S.F., so when a politically connected friend invited me along for a four-party tour last night to kiss a few rings, I figured
SF News Mayor Lee Can Dish Out Punishment Over Transportation Funding, But He Sure Can't Take It You know that thing where you're involved in an argument with someone, then you realize that your opponent is actually angry about something that has NOTHING to do with what you're talking about?
SF News The Nudists Will Be Protesting Scott Wiener Again Next Weekend It's an election year, and incumbent District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener may not be facing a ton of competition in the race, but that doesn't mean the nudist contingent will not be trying
SF News Police: 'Organized Crime' Could Be Behind Rash Of Car Thefts Is your car missing? You may have been the victim of a mob hit. Through the end of August, auto thefts were up 18 percent in San Francisco from the previous year, the
SF News Scott Wiener Jumps On Truvada Train, Tells The World He Is On It Sometimes our gay Supervisors have to battle it out for who's courting the gay vote better, and this week it's all about Truvada the HIV-prevention pill that Supervisor David Campos says more people
SF News Developers Attempting To Skip Out On Paying For Downtown High Speed Rail Extension Remember how Supervisors Scott Wiener and Jane Kim were expressing some concern a couple months ago about the Mayor's Office's assurances that the rooftop park at the new Transbay Transit Center would be
SF News SFMTA To Pay For Special-Ed Kids To Join Free Muni For Youth 'Pilot' Program Though a local tech company's grant has helped to fund transit for SF schoolkids, not every low-income student was covered. Now the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is using money from its own
SF News Day Around The Bay: What Would Harvey Milk Do? Supervisor Scott Wiener thinks Harvey Milk wouldn’t have supported legislation intended to stop speculators from evicting everyone and flipping buildings. [Chronicle] There's a petition to rename the tunnel that connects the Golden
SF News Exclusive: Supe Scott Wiener, Coalition For An Affordable City, And Locals Debate The S.F. Soda Tax San Francisco has a reputation for being health-conscious, but Supervisor Scott Wiener’s ballot measure to tax soda is sitting with certain voters about as well as Mentos and 7 Up. Wiener's soda
SF News AIDS Healthcare Foundation Suing City Over Castro Pharmacy Snub The Los Angeles-based non-profit AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is suing the City of San Francisco, as they announced Monday, over what they see as their right to relocate and consolidate their two local
SF News San Francisco Candidates' War Chests, By The Numbers Hey, maybe you heard that we have an election in San Francisco this November? With all the sturm und drang over ballot measures on taxing sodas, raising the minimum wage and protecting drivers,
