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,
SF News You Will Soon Be Paying An Extra Quarter To Ride Muni Bad news: Fares on Muni busses and trains will be going up to $2.25 on September 1. Bright side: You don't have to carry extra quarters around if you just get yourself
SF News Market Street Safeway Still Evicting Recycling Center, People Still Protesting There's been an ongoing fight for several years between neighbors in the vicinity of Dolores, Duboce, and Market Streets and homeless advocates over the eviction of the outdoor, nonprofit recycling center at the
SF News Transbay Rooftop Park May Not Be Dead, Might Require Naming Rights The Mayor's Office has quickly responded to reports last week that one of the signature aspects of the new Transbay Transit Center the multi-block, rooftop park and promenade might have to be scrapped
SF News A New Proposal To Un-Suck Muni: Tie Funding To S.F. Population Growth District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener is taking a hard look at ways to funnel more funding to the city's forever-ailing transit system. His latest proposal: a city charter amendment that would increase the
SF News Supervisors Testing Fewer Seats, Wider Aisles On Muni Trains If you took an N-Judah to work and noticed a lot more standing room, you can thank Supervisors London Breed and Scott Wiener, who pushed for more strap-hanging and less seat-hogging on light
SF News San Francisco's Feces-Covered Streets By The Numbers 1: The number of blocks St. George Alley, aka "San Francisco's Filthiest Alley" runs Once: The number of times San Francisco's Department of Public Works manages to clean St. George Alley per week,
SF News Yet Another Proposal To Give Us Late Night Transit Hope At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, D8 supe Scott Wiener introduced the latest plan to try improving the BART's and Muni's after-hours transit options. This isn't the first time we've heard that one
SF News Local Nudism Activist Gypsy Taub Unveils New 20-Year-Old Fiancé, Plans Nude Wedding At City Hall The small but staunch cadre of local nudists held perhaps their final nude-in of the year on Sunday (what with the weather and all) in the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza, i.e. Ground
SF News Middle Class Screwed In Current S.F. Housing Market As we all know and have talked endlessly about for several years, getting a decent apartment in San Francisco is damn near impossible unless you make a six-figure income, preferably upwards of $150,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Owners Expanding With New Castro Mexican Spot The runaway success of Hi Tops, the one-year-old gay sports bar in the Castro that has become so much more than that to a generation nay, several generations of local homosexuals, has laid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Responds To San Francisco's Proposed Soda Tax As San Francisco braces itself for the possibility of spending a quarter extra just for the privilege of enjoying an ice cold can of bubbly corn syrup, the lobbyists from Big Soda would
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Comes San Francisco's Soda Tax In nanny state news: Supervisor Scott Wiener plans to introduce legislation this week that would add a 24-cent tax on every can of soda sold in the city of San Francisco. Wiener's bill
