SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFMTA Torn Over Naming Chinatown Muni Station For Rose Pak A trans woman was injured in an unprovoked attack in the Castro, the SFPD is investigating a drive-by shooting, Warriors Game 6 tickets are now on sale, and Gay Shame wants to "kick cops out of Pride."
SF News Supervisors Make Second Push To Name Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Beloved/feared Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 68, was one of the singular, unstoppable forces in getting the Central Subway project built. And the Board of Supervisors believes her name needs to be attached to some piece of it.
Arts & Entertainment Photos From The 2017 Chinese New Year Parade In Downtown SF On Saturday, the nation's largest annual Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, with one of the only nighttime illuminated parades in the country as well, came down Market Street and circled Union Square, drawing
SF News Rose Pak's Sisters Settle Dispute Over Estate, Will Finally Cremate Her Body We learned last month that despite a high-profile funeral that drew many local dignitaries and media coverage, the late Rose Pak's remains still had not been interred despite her body being "paraded through
SF News Station Names Should Indicate Geographic Location, Transit Officials Decide, Ruling Out Rose Pak Station Rejecting the Board of Supervisors' unanimous recommendation that the SFMTA name the Chinatown Central Subway station after Rose Pak, an idea some protesters begged the SFMTA Citizens' Advisory Council to ignore, transit officials
SF News Oh Dear God: Rose Pak's Body Was Never Buried And Is Still At A Mortuary As Family Feuds As a longtime San Francisco politics writer, Joe Eskanazi knows where the bodies are buried... or, as the case may be, not buried at all. That's what appears to be the trouble with
SF News Protesters Urge SFMTA Not To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak As she was in life, Rose Pak is controversial even in death. The local political power-broker passed away in September at the age of 68, and was quickly mourned and honored by the
SF News Supes Pass Resolution Urging SFMTA To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Rose Pak will be remembered for the Central Subway one way or another. After all, she pushed for the project as forcefully as the boring machine that drilled the 1.7-mile tunnel from
SF News Rose Pak Mourned, Celebrated At Big Wake And Funeral #RosePak It is a Chinatown holiday. Streets closed for Rose Pak funeral. pic.twitter.com/wtArf8ZtV2— C.W. Nevius (@cwnevius) September 24, 2016 The late Chinatown powerhouse Rose Pak, who died last weekend
SF News Chinatown Power Broker Rose Pak Dead At 68 Breaking news Sunday afternoon is that longtime Chinatown community leader and City Hall power player Rose Pak has died. The Examiner has word via Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was at Pak's home this
SF News Rose Pak Vows City Hall Blockade To Stop Stockton Street Pedestrian Mall 2NITE on @CBSSF 5 #RosePak will block SF #MTA and #cityhall if Stockton closure goes through -more w @philmatier 6pm pic.twitter.com/w8mBauENik— Phil Matier (@philmatier) August 8, 2016 Chinatown organizer and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rose Pak Shuts Down Idea For Car-Free Stockton Street Section Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A lawbreaking trans woman named “Crackers’ has repeatedly violated
SF News Rose Pak Back At Work: Protesting Against Lee Recall, Angling To Get Cindy Wu On Board Of Supes If you're into the intrigue that happens at City Hall especially where Chinatown power player Rose Pak is concerned, then get this: You know how Pak had her whole falling out with Ed
SF News Half Of City Hall, Gavin Newsom, And Academy Of Art's Elisa Stephens Show Up To Celebrate Rose Pak's Return As noted Monday, the scheduled return of Rose Pak to San Francisco following an extended medical stay in China was expected to draw a crowd of at least 100 well-wishers and a bus
SF News Rose Pak Returns Following Extended Medical Stay In China A big welcome home convoy and celebratory lunch are planned today as Chinatown power broker Rose Pak lands back home at SFO from an extended stay in China these last several months. Matier
SF News Ed Lee Controlled By Shadow Mayor Steve Kawa, Claims Rose Pak Mayor Ed Lee won reelection on Tuesday, but who is really in charge at City Hall? Famed (and feared) powerbroker Rose Pak asserted this week that the Mayor is in fact controlled by
SF News Video: Local Rapper Calls Out Mayor As 'A Disgrace To Asians' I just wanted to tell Mayor Lee something.. pic.twitter.com/e5aCjtSqLq— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) October 7, 2015 Local hip-hop artist Equipto confronted Mayor Ed Lee in a San Francisco coffeeshop earlier this week,
SF News Rose Pak Suffering From Kidney Failure, Calls Mayor Lee 'The Biggest Disappointment' Legendary local power broker Rose Pak, who's graced our pages many, many times over the years as she asserted her influence on city politics at every important turn, is gravely ill, as San
SF News Willie Brown Says Newsom Should Be Hillary's Veep, Calls Peskin A 'Troll,' And Likes <i>Furious 7</i> This week's Willie's World is full of terrific tidbits from the man we all once called Da Mayor. First off he'd like everyone to know that Gavin Newsom should be Hillary Clinton's most
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 San Francisco's Jet-Setting Mayor's Travel Expenses Close In On Six Figures It's good being mayor of San Francisco! Sure, there's lots of boring meetings, and you have to work on the weekends sometimes, but there are perks—perks like the over $95,000 of
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: Rose Pak Was Right Hold your hats and hallelujah, Rose is gonna show it to you. And if that dated musical reference doesn't do it for you, this will: noted Chinatown power player Rose Pak, who has
SF News Carmen Chu Appointed Assessor; D4 Supervisor Replacement TBA Mayor Ed Lee named District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu as the city’s assessor-recorder, effectively replacing onetime mayoral candidate Phil Ting. Chu, who would often correct Supervisor Jane Kim's math during Board of
SF News Rose Pak Once Thought 'Motherf***er' Was a Term of Endearment The cover story in the new issue of San Francisco Magazine is all about Rose Pak. Call her whatever you like kingmaker, ballbuster, politico, Mayor but she's getting kind of sick of the
