SF Politics Sister Roma Honored In State Capitol For Pride Month, Despite GOP Lawmakers Throwing A Fit Republicans are making a habit of disinviting drag nuns The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride events, but they couldn’t stop Monday’s honoring of Sister Roma at the California State Capitol, where Sister Roma ended up getting a standing ovation.
SF Politics California Lawmakers Reluctant To Impose Harsher Fentanyl Laws State legislators in Sacramento have passed plenty of bills on fentanyl treatment and recovery services, but the bills intended to punish dealers and users of the drug have stalled.
SF Politics Supervisor Catherine Stefani Has Filed to Run For State Assembly In 2024 Assemblymember Phil Ting’s seat is up for grabs next year, and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani has filed to run for it — she's also changed her Twitter handle, and set up a campaign website.
SF Politics Campos Won’t Run Against Haney Again in June, Even Though His Name Will Be On the Ballot The AD-17 state Assembly seat situation seems resolved (for now), because after Matt Haney’s landslide victory Tuesday, his opponent David Campos says he won’t run in the June primary or November general elections for the seat.
SF Politics Haney Forces State to Change Campos’ Ballot Description, as the Two Campaigns Try to Manufacture Differences Haney just won a legal ruling to change David Campos’ ballot description from ‘civil rights attorney’ to ‘criminal justice administrator,’ as the two progressive rivals look to gin up differences between them for next month’s runoff election.
SF Politics There Could be Four Elections for This Same D-17 State Assembly Seat in 2022 This February’s special election pitting Matt Haney against Davis Campos for David Chiu’s old seat could be the first of four elections for the exact same seat in just a nine-month span.
SF Politics SF’s Proposed New State Assembly Map Draws Flak for Creating White-Majority District One of the many quirks of the proposed SF state assembly district boundaries is that if David Campos won his assembly race, he would not even live in the district he represents.
SF Politics David Chiu Likely to Be SF's Next City Attorney, Setting Up Race For His Assembly Seat The winds of San Francisco politics are going to strengthen in the coming weeks, with potential shakeups that will likely bring us a new assemblymember in Sacramento, and potentially a shift in power on the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Assembly Committee Mulls Bill To Allow California Cyclists To Roll Through Stop Signs There’s been significant gnashing of teeth and grinding of gears in San Francisco over the controversial, so-called “Idaho stop” — the practice of bicycles yielding instead of hard stopping at intersections with stop
SF News 'Idaho Stop' Could Become Legal For Cyclists Statewide Under New Assembly Bill Bicycle advocates have long been pushing for the legalization of the so-called "Idaho stop" or "California roll" in which cyclists treat stop signs more as yield signs, only coming to a full stop
SF News Campos Concedes To Chiu; Both Candidates Issue Gratuitous Statements David Campos made a phone call to David Chiu Thursday evening to concede the relatively close race for Assembly District 17. As Chiu wrote on Facebook, "We had a positive conversation and agreed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assemblyman Who Introduced Glove-Wearing Bill For Bartenders Now Proposing Emergency Repeal Dr. Richard Pan, the pediatrician and Democratic Assemblyman who introduced and passed a law last year in the California Assembly that will force all chefs, sushi chefs, and bartenders to wear rubber gloves
SF News Chris Daly's Face Still Being Used To Frighten Voters Though he hasn't held elected office in well over a year, Chris Daly's mug is still being co-opted by more conservative candidates to represent the "zany ideas" and "guerrilla tactics" of S.F.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assembly Votes to Ban Sale of Shark Fin The state Assembly voted against fishermen who rip off shark fins and toss the still-barely-living sea creatures back into the ocean. "AB376 bans the sale, trade or possession of shark fins, a delicacy
SF News Fiona Ma Backs Down a Bit on Anti-Rave Bill, Will Hold Some Meetings You'll recall how State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma was looking to define what a "rave" was so that she could write a bill that would ban raves from occurring on public property? Well, now
SF News Today In Absurd Budget Problem Solutions: Electronic Ads on License Plates The State Assembly is considering a measure to begin researching the technology and implementation of electronic license plates statewide, a move that hopes to help close the $19 billion budget gap we're currently
misc Week Around the -Ists DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Neighborhood As this Sesame Street YouTube clip asks, who are the people in your neighborhood, Ed Jew? And -- good idea, commenter Apioca Ted! Here's a summary of the declarations filed by Ed Jew's
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Early Bird What's Ed Jew doing today, now that he's been excused from jury duty? This has got to be the first time anyone's been to get San Francisco jury duty, ever. --The Chron's got
Arts & Entertainment Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's First Town Hall Meeting Over the weekend, San Francisco's very own Princess Fiona had her first Town Hall meeting since joining the CA State Assembly. In addition to the everyday, pedestrian issues addressed, there was some talk
SF News How's Carole Migden's Driving?: An 11-Year Grudge More Carole Migden driving news! The Sacramento Bee (which, we'll admit, we were only perusing to see if there were some more pictures of the whales) has found a woman who's still angry
SF News What's Up With Your Board Of Supes? Look at that fresh new picture of your 2007 San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Chris Daly even showed up this time! So what's the gang up to these days? (Besides Chris Daly; he's
SF News Chicken-Free At 4FQT You could tell Mayor Gavin Newsom came in expecting the full costumed brigade this morning at Fourth Fake Question Time-- we saw Gavin flinch when SFist Elaine saw him coming into the Excelsior
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Gavin Newsom: Hell-Bent for Re-election Mayor Newsom toured part of the UCSF Children’s Hospital this morning during the California State Assembly’s Town Hall event hosted by Speaker Núñez. With girlfriend Jennifer at his side, he discussed
SF News State Senate Shenanigans Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-leaf
