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 [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 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 Mayor Lee's Name Floated As Potential Clinton Cabinet Pick Perhaps Hillary Clinton didn't hear the chorus of boos that greeted Mayor Ed Lee in May when he introduced her at a campaign event in San Francisco his name is now reportedly being
Arts & Entertainment Mayors Lee, De Blasio Make Twitter Bet On Giants Vs. Mets Wild Card Game The stakes for tonight's MLB Wild Card game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets just got way higher. Okay, not really. Still, civic pride is now on the line
SF News After Mayor Floats $17.5 Million Police Reform Package, Supes Grill Him, Some Call To Fire Suhr As part of his proposed two-year budget, Mayor Lee has suggested adding $17.5 million to the SFPD's budget with the goal of instituting reforms and reducing violence, the AP reports via KRON4.
SF News Chief Suhr Cancels Appearance At Police Accountability Forum Over Security Concerns After a march on City Hall yesterday led by five protestors only consuming liquid calories to demand his removal, Police Chief Greg Suhr reneged on a planned appearance with Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
SF News Campos's Shelter-Crisis Declaration Now Has Veto-Proof Majority There's a line wrapping around the Board of Supervisors chambers filled with speakers who are demanding that the City declare a state of emergency to deal with our homeless crisis. A photo posted
SF News Poll: For The First Time, A Majority Of San Franciscans Disapprove Of Ed Lee Ed Lee is in the red. The Chronicle reports that numbers previously omitted from a recent Chamber of Commerce poll conducted by David Binder Research are fairly damning for the mayor's camp. Why
SF News Homelessness Debate Between Mayor's Office And Supervisor Campos Continues The debate on how to best serve the homeless of San Francisco wages on this week in the form of an open letter by Supervisor David Campos and an interview given by Sam
SF News Mayor Refuses To Allow Likely Statewide Smoking Age Increase To Rain On Local Prohibition Parade Though buying cigarettes might soon become a 21-and-over activity for any smoking Californian, San Francisco isn't content to wait for Governor Jerry Brown to decide if he's gonna OK the package of tobacco
SF News Mayor Lee Defends Homeless Sweeps, Goes After Supervisor Campos Mayor Ed Lee yesterday took the unusual step of saying something of note at the typically staid Board of Supervisors meeting question time — simultaneously defending his efforts to combat homelessness in San Francisco
SF News Confirmed: Ed Lee's 'Best Friend' From College Is Now A Homeless San Franciscan Two college chums are now on opposite sides of a divided city. A 64-year-old man named Jim Hammond Harding who had the pleasure of meeting the Chronicle's curmudgeon-in-chief Chuck Nevius says that “ Mayor
Arts & Entertainment Adele 'Hello' Parody Calls Out Mayor, Ron Conway It's been almost a year since we had a music video cover of a hit song attempt to shine a spotlight on the gnashing of San Francisco's inequality teeth, and so it feels
SF News DOJ Review Of SFPD Won't Examine Mario Woods Killing Specifically, Recommendations Not Enforceable #SF mayor Ed Lee on federal voluntary review of #SFPD pic.twitter.com/XeKvUOS6hT— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) February 1, 2016 News broke on Sunday that the Department of Justice would conduct "[a]
SF News Prosecutor In City Hall Corruption Case Wants To Keep Evidence Secret As you most likely remember, ten days ago the District Attorney's Office indicted three local politicos on varying corruption and bribery related charges allegedly tied to efforts to retire Mayor Ed Lee's campaign
SF News Tent City Residents Fear City Efforts To Corral Them Ahead Of Super Bowl Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood — the tent city located on Division Street under the overpass — are worried. But as the Super Bowl approaches and the city swells with tourists, the homeless living
SF News [Update] Three Local Politicos, Including Keith Jackson, Indicted On Corruption Charges The District Attorney's Office made it known this morning that DA George Gascón would hold a 1:30 p.m. press conference today to announce corruption charges against an as-of-yet unnamed person or
SF News Supervisors Now Demanding City Hall Renegotiate Super Bowl 50 Deal Three San Francisco Supervisors held a press conference yesterday reiterating their anger with the deal city officials struck with the Super Bowl Host Committee that is expected to leave SF taxpayers a bill
SF News Mayor Vetoes 'Idaho Stop' Law As Promised Mayor Ed Lee made good on his threat yesterday, and officially vetoed the Bicycle Yield ordinance proposed last year by Supervisor John Avalos and approved by the Board of Supervisors. The ordinance sought
SF News [Update] Video: Mayor Lee Shouted Off Stage By Protesters At MLK Day Event Mayor Ed Lee was shouted off stage this afternoon by a group of protesters challenging his handling of the ongoing scandal involving SFPD's response to the shooting death of Mario Woods. The Mayor
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Third Inauguration Ceremony Clouded By Allegations Of Corruption, Isolation An inauguration of a city's mayor is supposed to be a time of celebration, of excitement for the future, and of pride and joy. But when you're Ed Lee, announcing your third inauguration
SF News Mayor Seeks Increase In Affordable Housing Requirements Ed Lee, reelected mayor but of a different San Francisco, today announced a new call to increase the percentage of affordable housing required from private market-rate developers building new housing. With Board of
SF News Supervisors Debating Affordable Housing Density Bonuses Today As discussed last month, the Board of Supervisors today is debating an affordable housing density-bonus program, endorsed by the mayor and drafted by Planning. The deal for developers, as anticipated: Receive two extra
SF News Mission Development Project Goes Fully Affordable As Lee And Campos Make Nice Mayor Lee and Supervisor David Campos, who recently clashed over that supervisor's proposal for a moratorium on market rate housing in the Mission District, appear to be mending fences. As Mission Local reports,
