SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday October 5th, 2011 Just when we were on a roll with sub-three hour meetings, the Board had to go and put a teeth-gnashing public hearing on youth housing smack in the middle of yesterday's agenda. Final
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Eric Mar might be saving birds from those tall shiny glass-and-steel deathtraps we humans have erected, but not even bird-safe building legislation can keep us from wanting to slam our heads against the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, September 21, 2011 While we love the tortue of an eight-hour Supervisors meeting as much as the next person (read: not very much!), we're happy to see these meetings have become a lot snappier in the
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for September 13th 2011 If the nonstop whacky antics at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting are any indication, we're looking at what could be an exciting fall in City Hall. By which we mean, no one appeared
Arts & Entertainment Board Of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings: September 5th, 2011 Coming to you late this week due to a few technical difficulties with the post-recess SFGovTV feed, we now return to our regularly scheduled Weekly Power Rankings. This week, just gettin' back in
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Yesterday's meeting was our last day in the People's Chambers for awhile. With the Board's 5-week summer recess looming the meeting only ran 3 hours long. And in typical last-day-of-school fashion, many zany
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Getting right down to the big issues this week (because SFGovTV's footage of yesterday's meeting inexplicably cuts off the first 45 minutes of administrative items), let's talk about those Muni bus wraps. The
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Thursday, July 21, 2011 Tuesday's meeting was all over the board (pun intended?). So, appropriately enough, current points co-leader in these Weekly Power Rankings Sean Elsbernd was all over the chambers. The outerlands supe was probably just
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Yesterday's brief meeting of the kumbaya board was either incredibly efficient or just a lazy way to slouch towards next week's holiday recess, depending on how desperate you are to know whether those
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Debate! Intrigue! Public Hearings! Jane Kim! Recess! Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting had just about everything one could want from a meeting that ran just a hair over five and a half hours.
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Yesterday's Board meeting started off with some chuckles from the board and more than one supervisor showed up late for Question Time with Mayor Lee. How rude! Here, from SFGovTV footage, we see
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 8th 2011 Eight hours and forty-two minutes. That's how long yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting ran. In terms of man-hours, that pretty much negates any time off the supes might have taken last week. With
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings: Recess Edition So the Board of Supervisors had the day off from their regular Tuesday meeting yesterday. Contrary to our wildest hopes and dreams, SFGovTV did not, in fact, televise a Post-Memorial Day intramural two-on-two
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 25th 2011 Yesterday's board of supervisors meeting was Sean Elsbernd's time to shine. Because if there are two things Elsbernd gets excited it's Zanze's cheesecake and demolishing some postwar garden court apartments to make room
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 President Chiu called this week's board meeting to order a full 15 minutes late yesterday. We'll leave it to the math geniuses to figure out how much we're paying these clowns to shoot
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 11th 2011 As promised, this week's Board of Supervisors meeting opened with an appearance from Temporary Mayor Ed Lee for Mayor Question Time. The best part of Mayor Question Time is that all of the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 4th 2011 Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting wasn't exactly exciting. There was barely any discussion and the supes continue to insist on not throwing chairs at each other. We're beginning to wonder why we thought
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 27th 2011 The board was all giggles as Clerk Calvillo called roll to open yesterday's board meeting. We may never know what caused an outburst of Supervisor Avalos' recognizable laugh, but we do know Calvillo
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 20th 2011 Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting was mercifully short, thanks to an absolute dearth of discussion and a full roster of supervisors arriving on time to the People's Chambers. Items 1 - 11 breezed
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 13th 2011 Just as everyone who showed up for Question Time with Ed Lee at yesterday's Board Meeting started to nod off to the Mayor's smooth-as-felt, Kermit the Frog voice, Board President David Chiu skipped
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 6th For the second week in a row, the Board of Supervisor's meeting kicked off with all members of the board actually present and accounted for. As they very well should have been, because
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 30th Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 23rd Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
misc Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 16th Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a