SF Politics SF Supe Introduces Bills Letting Small Businesses Negotiate Rent, Sell to Employees Two proposals by Supervisor Connie Chan would let small businesses with the same landlord negotiate rents collectively while giving employees the first opportunity to buy the business if an owner decides to sell.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Says Drug-Free Supportive Housing Would Allow Relapses If They Don’t Disrupt Others’ Sobriety Dorsey, who struggles with his own substance use disorder, introduced legislation calling for future city-funded supportive housing to be drug-free, which he says would allow for relapses if they don’t put fellow residents’ sobriety at risk, but some advocates remain skeptical.
SF News SF Supervisor Mahmood Introduces Ban on Uncertified Batteries Following Increase In Fires SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood and SFFD introduced legislation banning the sale of lithium-ion batteries without a UL certification label due to increased fire risk, giving city agencies authority to penalize retailers and issue fines to consumers who violate the law.
SF News Sunday Links: 6,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power in Another Storm-Related Outage A body was found in Monterey Bay near where missing swimmer Erica Fox disappeared; Bay Area tech pioneer Andrew Ng says AI isn’t replacing humans any time soon; and around 6,000 households lost power Saturday following the massive days-long outage earlier in the week.
SF News San Francisco Supes Celebrate Closure Of City's Last Gun Shop As the clock ticks down on San Francisco's last gun shop, there's at least one group vocally applauding the business' closure: Members of the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF News Video: Teen Bashes Gay Student In Ohio Classroom; School District Does Little About It [UPDATED] A brutal gay bashing inside an Ohio high school classroom was captured on video last week. The grainy clip, later posted on Facebook, shows a skinny 15-year-old and openly gay male
SF News S.F. Introduces New Public Nudity Legislation During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, District 8 Supervisor Scot Wiener will unsheathe new legislation about public nudity in San Francisco. Wiener represents the Castro, which has seen an uptick in
SF News Cat Declawing Ban Almost A Reality The San Francisco Board of Supervisors City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee, according to KRON 4, approved legislation yesterday that would ban cat declawing in San Francisco. The Board of Supervisors will vote
SF News Official Prop 8 Ruling Document Here it is in all of its confusing glory. In a nutshell, Rota Hao explains, it's because our constitution sucks -- even Mississippi has a provision in their constitution that says "
SF News New York Governor Introduces Gay Marriage Bill Take note, California: the Governor of New York introducing legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. "There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for
SF News Get Ready to Lose Prop 8 Part Two: They're Already Fighting to Protect DOMA Oh, . While gay activists were busy angrily masturbating at each other, the people on the other side were busy accomplishing things. They're anticipating that Obama will overturn DOMA (which is like
SF News Cough, Cough, Says Daly: New Cigarette Ban Introduced The entertaining/controversial Chris Daly, who seems a bit quiet as of late, has a new target now: wafts of cigarette smoke. We're told that his latest push of legislation "
misc Farmer's Market Survives Newsom Threat, Now Faces New, Direr Peril We were down at the Heart of the City Farmer's Market again today, and we were glad to see the sign above. Looks like the market managed to worm its way
misc Newsom Tries To Put Heart Of The City Under His Thumb Hey, are you doing anything tomorrow night? If you're like us and you love the Heart of the City Farmers' Market (Wednesdays and Sundays on UN Plaza), you might want
SF News SF Govt In Ur Lawz, Overlegislatin' Its Peeps Our friends over at Eater SF pointed out this item in the New York Times: an article pointing out several of the ways in which San Francisco is making an impact on our
SF News Call Off Your Old Tired Eth-- Oh, For A Golden Shower I Charge $250, Baby The Mayor shot down the legislation. saying that "legalization of prostitution would be a terrible mistake," because of...bad stuff happening around security gates, or security cameras, or something like that.
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle
SF News ID, Please? San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved municipal ID cards to SF inhabitants yesterday. These (hopefully adorable) new cards can be used by anyone here, it seems -- U.S. resident or not. Tommy Ammiano
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Barleycorn A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed
SF News Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's Environment Dept. Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week he introduced a wee bit of legislation that
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank,
SF News Four Months 'Til The City Takes Over Lots of people think that the SFHA is pretty much a mess, but it remains to be seen what's going to happen. We're kind of hoping to see what
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe
