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California State Senate Poised to Have a Female Majority for First Time Ever

While election results are still pouring in, there are enough ‘women vs. women’ primary races that come December, the California state Senate is likely to be comprised of 53% women.

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.

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.

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Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature

It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.

Pro-Trump Trans Woman Emerges As Challenger for Scott Wiener

A gun-loving Republican trans woman originally from Mississippi has declared herself a candidate for Scott Wiener's state senate seat, which comes up for election next year.

State Senate Approves Bill To Protect LGBT Seniors

A bill authored by state Senator Scott Wiener and sponsored by Equality California to protect the rights of LGBT seniors in long-term care facilities was passed Wednesday by the California state Senate in

Scott Wiener Narrowly Defeats Jane Kim In Costly State Senate Race

My boss @Scott_Wiener speaking at his election night party. "If Trump wins, we have to fight." pic.twitter.com/ND5natHRVF— Rashad Alaiyan (@rashadalaiyan) November 9, 2016 Supervisor Scott Wiener is celebrating a

Kim And Wiener Kissing Rings For Drag Queen Endorsements

It’s an old rule of politics that “endorsements don’t matter." But the old rules are getting served some new San Francisco realness by an emerging constituency of unexpected political power brokers

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,

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

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

Mandatory Vaccination Advances Through California Legislature

This year's measles outbreak led directly to California lawmakers proposing a change to state law that would all but eliminate the ability for parents to cite personal beliefs in keeping their kids from

Sign A Petition In Support Of The 4 AM Last Call

Mayor Ed Lee may end up being a stick in the mud about it, but a bill to institute an optional 4 a.m. last call in cities across California moves along, and

California Needs To Update Its Antiquated Rape Law

Last week, a three-year-old rape conviction in Southern California was overturned by the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles because the court ruled that the state's law would have only considered

Marin Residents Flip Out Over Not Having State Senator

A little quirk following the redrawing of State Senate districts has left Marin County without a senator, and you better believe they are FREAKING OUT about this. As a poor spokesperson for Senator

High-Speed Rail Approved in Dramatic State Senate Vote

After much hemming and hawing, the threat of lawsuits from NIMBYs on the Peninsula, and much spilt ink about the price tag, it looks like California will get a high-speed rail line after

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Gov. Jerry Brown's Amazingly Passive-Aggressive State Senate Memo

Well, now this is just delightful: Jerry Brown's passive aggressive note to the California State Senate back in September of this year, in which the Governor explains his support for SB 769 but

State Senate Redistricting Could Leave Portions of San Francisco Senator-less

As the California Redistricting Commission prepares to release their first draft of the latest district lines for state senate seats, the Examiner is wringing their hands over what could become of our two

Sen. Don Perata Carjacked in Oakland, Car Found Safe/Sound

California State Senate President pro tempore Don Perata's car was recovered today in Richmond after Saturday's carjacking. The auto theft happened while he as en route to Oakland City Councilman Ignacio De La

Last Night's Harvey Milk Club Civility

No one pulled out a bitch's clump of hair. That's the big news. Oh, and some other stuff happened, ahem: The Club's membership voted tonight on the February 2008 ballot and the June

Tomorrow. Milk Club Showdown. Be There.

Ever since that childish display of local politicking, all sides have been more or less civil and relatively respectful of one another. It goes without say how disappointed we are in both sides.

Peskin's Out (State Senate Race, And Politics In General)

We've gotten word that everyone's favorite tough guy, Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin has made it official that he's not going to be running for the State Senate, declining to get in

How's Carole Migden's Driving?: Charges Filed

We can't really get ourselves too worked up about the billboards or campaign finance allegations that Mark Leno's tossing around about his rival for the State Senate seat, Carole Migden (sorry) -- but

Week Around The -ists

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into

Step One In Insidious Scheme To Legalize Pot Complete

Assembly Bill 684 seeks to legalize the growing of hemp for industrial uses -- rope, cloth, oil, all that good stuff. It's not for smoking, okay? Okay?! In fact, the bill, which passed