They can be hard to track — even for political insiders. There’s TogetherSF, GrowSF, Abundant SF, Advance SF, ConnectedSF, Progress SF, Stop Crime SF, Forward Action SF and Neighbors for […]

BigMoneySF: What do new advocacy groups really want? 

The city of San Francisco is moving to expedite earlier sanctions it leveled against an allegedly predatory towing company accused of installing fraudulent no parking signs in a bank parking […]

Auto Towing owners accused of buying Lamborghini while on welfare

In the runup to March’s contested judicial elections, the tough-on-crime nonprofit Stop Crime Action has released a “Judge Report Card.” In a January Facebook post, the organization described its publication […]

Stop Crime Action’s ‘judge report card’ misrepresents its sourcing

Two more San Francisco supervisors said on Wednesday that they, too, received threats in the mail referencing an online rant by Garry Tan, the CEO of startup incubator Y Combinator […]

More SF supes receive threats referencing Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s posts

Following Garry Tan’s seemingly alcohol-fueled rant over the weekend, in which he wrote on social media that seven progressive San Francisco supervisors should “die slow,” tech workers in San Francisco […]

‘Stupid,’ ‘shameful:’ Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s rant

Three San Francisco supervisors received a threatening letter at their homes on Tuesday, and two more filed police reports after Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator and a heavy […]

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports

We humans are creatures of habit. When my parents’ favorite Chinese restaurant closed and a new one opened in its place, their behavior never changed. It’s as if the car […]

SF progressives have no candidate for mayor. But they’ll decide the winner.

Garry Tan, the CEO of startup accelerator Y Combinator and a deep-pocketed donor to moderate politics in San Francisco, seemingly wished a slow death for seven supervisors last night in […]

Garry Tan, tech CEO & campaign donor, wishes death upon San Francisco politicians

Ryan Khojasteh, a 30-year-old Alameda County prosecutor who was among 15 fired from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office during the 2022 administration change, will announce his candidacy today for […]

Ex-SF prosecutor fired by DA Jenkins now running to replace Jenkins

A manager in San Francisco’s Department of Human Resources was arrested this morning and charged in connection to the bribery and corruption case that enveloped the San Francisco Community Challenge […]

City HR manager charged with selling tech gear — bought with quake supply money — on eBay

SF SAFE, San Francisco nonprofit that has been accused of misspending city funds is today facing a new charge: It has purportedly stiffed a Mission District nonprofit of $625,000 for […]

Embattled SFPD contractor accused of stiffing Mission nonprofit $625K

Florence Kong, who was convicted and incarcerated for one of the more theatrical misdeeds in the Mohammed Nuru affair, has reached a settlement agreement with the city of San Francisco […]

Florence Kong, who bribed Nuru with gold watch, faces $750K fine

Despite San Francisco’s nightly portrayal on cable news as the burning dumpster fire of liberal misrule, crime fell slightly in 2023. Quips had been made decades ago — long before some […]

Daniel Lurie bips Mayor Breed’s ballot measure; hilarity ensues

It would be unfair to say San Francisco’s Ethics Commission moves very, very slowly. In order to do that, they’d have to go a lot, lot faster.  As it is, […]

SF hasn’t yet audited its 2020 candidates. It’s 2024.

Update, Jan. 12, 2024: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the case out of Oregon, Johnson v. Grants Pass, which reaffirmed a prior federal ruling prohibiting criminalizing those […]

Ninth Circuit upholds ban on SF homeless sweeps

The Department of Building Inspection confirmed last week that it will launch an internal investigation after Mission Local found that several veteran inspectors had overseen work performed by family members. […]

DBI chief inspectors OK’d their own family’s jobs, properties

Rep. Barbara Lee, the veteran Oakland congresswoman who is vying to succeed the late Dianne Feinstein in the Senate, stopped by the Mission District today for a quick tour of […]

Barbara Lee visits the Mission District

Time, in the post-pandemic world, seems to have warped and coagulated. The past four years feel like so many more; peering back in time feels more and more like trying […]

Mayor Breed tried to kill Prop. H. In 2024, it may save her career.

Last night, the Elections Commission provisionally approved a 62-page report packed with recommendations on how to improve the city’s redistricting process, in a 6-0 vote with one commissioner absent. Chief […]

Elections Commission urges a raft of redistricting reforms

Content warning: This article contains detailed descriptions of an alleged sexual assault. San Francisco police officers testified today that the woman allegedly sexually assaulted by a city commissioner in late […]

SF police testify in commissioner Palmer’s sexual-assault case

On the first day of a 90-day vending ban on San Francisco’s Mission Street, uniformed police and Public Works inspectors took to the streets to enforce it — and about […]

Mission street vending ban begins, protest follows

Despite a series of proposals by Mayor London Breed that have historically harmed communities of color, many Black San Francisco community leaders say they remain supportive of the mayor and […]

Is SF returning to the war on drugs? Despite reservations, some Black leaders are OK with that. 

With a vending ban on Mission Street five days away, Latino vendors held a press conference Wednesday morning, again pleading for a delay until after the New Year. More than […]

Street vendors unite to fight Mission St. vending ban 

The loud, predawn FBI raid of a home on a sleepy Excelsior District block on Nov. 20 was tied to a shooting homicide at Crissy Field earlier this month, federal […]

FBI raid of Excelsior District home tied to Crissy Field homicide

Update: The FBI confirmed on Nov. 22 that the raid was tied to a shooting homicide at Crissy Field earlier this month. The agency had on Nov. 21 confirmed that […]

FBI raids Excelsior District home

Like our coverage? Please consider supporting it today. We depend on our readers. When ex-Department of Building Inspection plan checkers Rudy Pada and Cyril Yu were federally charged this month […]

Federally charged ex-DBI employee OK’d work on family home

Anyone in China reading the news accounts of President Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco for APEC might be reassured by the state of the city — but not ignorant of […]

What San Francisco looks like in Chinese media coverage of APEC

The Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Monday discussed the mayor’s proposed Initiative Ordinance for the March 2024 election, which would allow voters to enshrine police policies governing surveillance technology […]

Supes question Mayor’s plan to place police chase, surveillance policies on ballot

Last month, a virtual alphabet soup of city agencies capped a months-long planning process and rolled out a warning for the general public: Eating bacon-wrapped hot dogs is bad for […]

SF’s bacon-wrapped hot-dog warning reeks of desperation … and rotting meat

William Monroe Palmer II, a member of the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board in San Francisco, was arrested on Thursday on a bevy of sexual assault charges, including forcible sodomy, assault […]

William Palmer, on Sheriff’s Oversight Board, jailed on sex assault charges

San Francisco city officials and others offered the Planning Commission a plan to revive the city’s ailing downtown on Thursday, aiming to boost businesses, convert upper floors in high-rises into […]

Downtown revival plan envisions arts, housing