Bay Area Sports The Ed Lee Statue at Chase Center Has Been Unveiled An Ed Lee statue now sits outside the Chase Center, an homage to the mayor who shepherded the arena’s approval and construction, and considered it his legacy project.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee May 'Send A Bill' To Feds For Saturday Protests #SFPD travels to Alamo Square Park protest in Muni bus, via @FitzTheReporter https://t.co/jT346H03jc pic.twitter.com/goOgtlbyas— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) August 29, 2017 SF Mayor Ed Lee is saying he
SF News SF & Berkeley Mayors, Supervisors Seek Any Means To Halt Alt-Right Rallies The Bay Area is grappling with how with to solve a problem like Nazis in the Marina, as two alt-right/white nationalist rallies are planned for next weekend in San Francisco and Berkeley.
SF News California's Best-Paid Mayor Is...SF's Own Ed Lee Based on his salary from last year, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee is the best paid mayor in California, beating out Los Angeles, Oakland, and every other town in our state. But it
SF News 2017 San Francisco 'Homeless Census' Reveals That Despite Numbers, Things Are Worse, Not Better Every two years since 2005, the City of San Francisco performs a "homeless census" that is officially called the "Homeless Point-In-Time Count and Survey." The 2017 results were released a couple of weeks
SF News Report: Uber And Lyft Bloating SF Traffic By 15-20 Percent Rideshare behemoths Uber and Lyft purport to provide convenience for riders, but a new study drives home the point that these two companies in particular are burdening San Francisco with massive and broader
SF News SF Mayor Reacts With Disgust As House Of Representatives Pass American Health Care Act San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee had harsh words for the Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted 217-213 on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare with what they are calling
SF News Federally Owned Parking Lot Behind Ninth Circuit Could Become Housing For Homeless Mayor Lee has introduced plans to convert a federally owned surface parking lot, so owned because it's behind a federal courthouse, into the city's largest supportive housing development for formerly homeless people. That
SF News Mayor's Office Blamed In Four-Year Delay To Possibly Name SFO Terminal After Harvey Milk It was January of 2013 when then-Supervisor David Campos proposed that San Francisco name its airport after slain gay icon and SF Supe Harvey Milk. After that plan was met with no small
SF News Recall Ed Lee Campaign Ends Not With A Bang But A Whimper Oh, the halcyon days when certain San Franciscans thought the biggest threat to their happiness was Mayor Ed Lee. But those days are gone, and with them, it appears, are any hope of
SF News Mayor Never Convened Promised Working Group On Airbnb Regulations A working group to propose improved Airbnb regulations that Mayor Lee promised to set up by the end of February 2017 when he vetoed the 60-day rental cap is nowhere to be found,
SF News Potential Successors To Mayor Ed Lee 'Saddling Up' For a few glorious days in early November, political wonks mulled a possible successor for current San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee after he was mentioned as a possible cabinet member for Hilary Clinton,
SF News [Update] Lucas Museum Turns To The Dark Side, Is Bound For LA Despite Mayor Lee's Brown-Nosing It might take Jedi mind tricks to convince billionaire filmmaker George Lucas to place his Museum of Narrative Art on Treasure Island, but rest assured, Mayor Lee is trying the next best thing:
SF News Supervisor John Avalos Not Afraid To Burn Bridges On His Way Out Of Casterly Rock We've all compared real-life events to those in fiction — hell, I did it today, when I mentioned an episode of a TV show that a BART collision evoked. But at what point does
SF News Report: Cycling Up Across San Francisco Daily trips by bicycle are up across San Francisco this year, with a new SFMTA report putting the increase at 8 percent over last year. Specifically, this refers to weekday rides — suggesting that
SF News Mayor Considering Legal Action As Self-Driving Ubers Continue To Roam SF Streets With Uber executives vowing to keep their self-driving cars on San Francisco streets in the face of opposition from both local and state officials, Mayor Ed Lee is exploring the possibility of taking
SF News Mayor Lee Picks Outsider For New SFPD Chief, Veteran LAPD Cop William Scott Mayor Ed Lee has chosen the next San Francisco Police Chief, and, to the surprise of many, the job will not go to current interim Chief Toney Chaplin. Instead, the Chronicle reports that
SF News Newly Appointed Rec And Parks Commissioner Resigns Days After Being Sworn In Jason Chan's time as a commissioner with the Rec and Parks Department was short and not particularly sweet. The Chronicle reports that the former Ed Lee campaign worker resigned from his post mere
SF News Uber Ignores Mayor Lee's Demand That It Cease Unpermitted Self-Driving Ride Service Mayor Ed Lee stepped into the self-driving fray yesterday, issuing a statement demanding that Uber cease picking up passengers in the company's autonomous Volvo SUVs immediately. As the Chronicle reports, the Mayor's words
SF News Supervisors Vote To Allocate $9 Million For Free City College While advocates for a tuition-free City College took to City Hall yesterday to sing Christmas carols with altered lyrics to fit their cause, the Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 to allocate $9 million
SF News Promise Of Free City College Likely To Go Unmet Following Mayoral Budget Decision When voters passed Proposition W back in November, they were told that revenues generated by the increased real estate transfer tax on residential and commercial properties worth over $5 million would go toward
SF News District 8 Will Likely Be Without A Supervisor Until January Supervisor Scott Wiener narrowly beat out Supervisor Jane Kim in his effort to become District 11's next state Senator. As he will be vacating his current role of San Francisco District 8 supervisor,
SF News Typically Attuned To Difference, Board Of Supervisors Focuses On Similarities In Wake Of Democalypse Hillary Ronen's successful election to the Board of Supervisors on November 8 wasn't just overshadowed by the unexpected election of Donald Trump. In her mind, the presidential election changed the very office to
SF News Who Will Replace Scott Wiener On the Board Of Supervisors? With District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener headed off to Sacramento, the Board of Supervisors is soon to be Wiener-less. Who will fill the gaping void on that governing body for the City and
SF News 'We Will Always Be San Francisco,' Mayor Declares At Unity Gathering Affirming Sanctuary City Policy San Francisco's often querulous political leadership was singing "Kumbaya" today at City Hall, with the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and others presenting a united liberal front at an innocuously named rally: "We
