SF politics

SF politics

I hear Jimmy Kimmel needs a job. He may not currently live in District Four and I'm not sure how soon he can move here. He may have to commute for the first few weeks, until he finds suitable and affordable housing. But the mayor could conditionally offer the position to the just-banned talk show host, if Kimmel promises to fly into the city at least once a week for a Board of Supervisors meetings.

Gareth Sheridan accuses Fianna Fáil of blocking his Áras bid

(Editor's Note: Rowena Brown, who was sworn in as the At-Large Oakland City Councilmember in January of this year, is already one of the most effective and hard-working members of the Oakland City Council. Members of our team in the East Bay have seen her step up, time and again, for everything from helping save the city's fire stations to ensuring support for Oakland Pride.

Advocacy group members and union construction workers cheerfully toted signs that read "Cities are not Museums" and "Affordable Housing Can't Wait." As they see it, the city's failure to build housing at scale for the past decades has contributed to the city's affordability crisis, and the solution is to build at scale - which the zoning plan will enable.

Late Sunday night, negotiations between Assembly Transportation Committee Chair Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) and Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the legislation's author, wrapped up over details in Senate Bill 63. The bill would authorize Bay Area transit agencies to place a measure on next year's ballot to address long-term funding shortfalls. The completed negotiations led to a special meeting of the Assembly Transportation Committee earlier today, where SB 63 received final passage on an 11-5 vote before heading to the full Assembly floor.***

Chiu's office also accused the nonprofit of hiring family members, including children of the executive director and vice president of the board, violating an anti-nepotism provision in a city grant agreement. Separately, San Francisco's Office of Labor Standards Enforcement started its own investigation after receiving complaints from employees who claimed labor violations. The city suspended funding for Providence to operate the Oasis Hotel and its other programs and threatened to debar it, permanently cutting off future funding.

Sheryl Davis, the disgraced former head of SF's Dream Keeper initiative and a former Human Rights Commission director, is now the subject of both an administrative probe by the city, and a criminal investigation by the SF District Attorney's Office. The details of the criminal probe remain under wraps, but meanwhile, Davis continues to participate in civic events associated with her former organization and more, making some in City Hall uncomfortable.

In response to neighborhood concerns about compatibility, Kerman Morris Architects has redesigned the four-story building project, lowering its street-level wall and creating more open spaces.

Now, as the task force starts to weigh in on the remaining 118 advisory groups, councils, commissions and other bodies, pushback has arrived. Alongside the Treasury Oversight Committee and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Citizen Advisory Board, for instance, the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board was on Wednesday's chopping block, eliciting a bevy of soul-searching questions: Does the sheriff's department truly need its own oversight board? Can the board's work, perhaps, be folded into that of the Department of Police Accountability?

Forget all the nonsense you heard about time travel. You can't go back and kill your grandfather. The past has already happened. Everything is linked, each event underpins the next, everything is determined; you can't do anything to break those links. Try, and you enter a forbidden state. Your body won't obey your will. Attempting to hurt locals usually puts you in a forbidden state but not always. I guess some people just have no role in history.

Nick Olivero, the executive director of SF's Boxcar Theatre, has resigned after being accused on social media of attempting to meet a minor for sex. The allegation was made through a video posted by People v. Preds, which focuses on exposing suspected predators. In the video, the individual identified as Olivero is confronted about arranging a meetup with a fictional 14-year-old boy. Messages exchanged on Grindr were also revealed, further implicating him in inappropriate behavior, though it remains unclear if law enforcement is involved.

The unraveling of the case with its illegal brothel, wannabe actor-turned-informant and a Lifetime TV show called 'P.I. Moms' would have weirder, darker implications than anyone imagined.

The exhibition features a large map of San Francisco that identifies 35 city street names and 10 statues and monuments that commemorate historical figures involved in the genocide of American Indians.

The heightened law enforcement presence may explain why so few people remained near 16th and Mission. Across the street, beside the U.S. Bank, only one vendor quietly sold roses and sunflowers.

Aubrey Abrakasa, a 17-year-old, was shot and killed in 2006 as he tried to warn others of an impending shooting. Witnesses reported a car sped by, firing about 30 rounds.

The Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, operational for over thirty years, may close permanently as its parent nonprofit faces debarment following an alleged bribery scandal.

Beginning August 5, San Francisco drivers exceeding the speed limit will face fines ranging from $50 to $500, depending on their speed and income.