San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission Seeks To Designate Ex-Cons A Protected Class

For the over seven million Californians who once lived inside the state’s massive prison system, securing many of life’s basic necessities can be a challenge….

Major SoMa Accident May Have Been Caused By Backwards Facing Traffic Light

If you were one of the myriad San Franciscans attempting to sneak out of the city a few hours early last Friday afternoon, you may…

Muni Operators And Taxi Drivers Planning Coordinated, 24-Hour Strike

It might be a good idea to mark Tuesday, August 2nd as your own personal Bike to Work Day. That’s the day labor groups have…

Clandestine Cocktail Capers Cause Closure of Carlos Club

Following a six-month investigation into illegal business practices by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the long-time Mission fixture Carlos Club (also known as…

Agency Tasked With Telling You Not To Drive Subsidizes Cars For Top Employees

The folks known for telling you to “Spare the air” and avoid driving might not be taking their own advice. The Bay Area Air Quality…

SF Movie Ticket Sales Scheme Derailed When Theater Owners Say They Never Agreed To It

After a furor of online activity and discussion, the much anticipated Bay Area trial of a service attempting to bring Netflix’s all-you-can-watch model to the…

SF Pride Threatens Videographer With Legal Action To Fight Association With Mid-Market Shooting

Just a few blocks from the Civic Center SF Pride celebration, the festive atmosphere of Market Street Pink Saturday night was punctured with the sound…

AT&T’s Plan To Install Hundreds Of Utility Boxes On City Sidewalks May Move One Step Closer To Reality Tomorrow

After months of delay, tomorrow SF’s Board of Supervisors may finally make a decision on whether to allow AT&T’s controversial plan to place 726 utility…

Golden Gate Bridge One Step Closer To Installing Suicide Prevention Barrier

Earlier this week, the Golden Gate Bridge District approved a $4 million engineering study looking into the creation of a full-fledged suicide prevention barrier. The…

Muni Pays Big Money In Bike Accident Settlement

On November 20th, 2008, David Wheeler was biking along the Great Highway. He was riding through a crosswalk from the adjacent bike path when a…

All Major Mayoral Candidates To Take Public Financing And It Will Cost The City Millions

A report by the city’s Ethics Commission says it expects each of the nine major mayoral candidates to qualify for, and opt into, San Francisco’s…

Castro’s Pink Saturday Celebration Bans Booze In Effort To Re-Focus On LGBT Community

Joining many of San Francisco’s other large-scale public events, Pink Saturday has, for the first time in its history, gone dry. This year, the annual…

Despite Growing Unrest, Nat Ford’s Golden Parachute Is All But Assured

At a meeting tomorrow, SFMTA’s governing board is expected to strap on Nat Ford’s golden parachute and allow him to walk away from his position…

SFMTA Roundup: Welcome To Year Zero Of The Post-Nat Ford Era

Looking Into Yesterday’s Epic Muni Fail Yesterday morning, a damaged electrical harness on an inbound N-Judah caused the train to pull down 500 feet wiring…

Charges Of Racism Continue To Fly After Grieving Athlete Arrested For Attempting To Board SFO Plane Wearing Baggy Pants

Update 6/17: A video has emerged showing a portion of the incident. What started as a dispute over an airline passenger’s fashion sense, ended with…

Mayor’s Plan To Pass Cost of Maintaing Trees Onto Property Owners Has Many Seeing Red

In March, Mayor Ed Lee held a ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of Charlie Starbuck, a San Francisco citizen who has single-handedly planted over 7,000 trees…

Real Foods Location In Noe Valley Still In Limbo After All These Years

Nearly a decade after its sudden closure, the old Real Foods storefront in Noe Valley remains vacant, Noe Valley SF reminds us today. Located on…

Slow Fundraising For The America’s Cup Could Cost San Francisco

When Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison was selling San Francisco on the benefits of hosting the 2013 America’s Cup, the city was assured that the internationally…

First Company To Take Advantage of Mid-Market “Twitter Tax Break” Moves Into A Rapidly Changing Neighborhood

Sometime in 2010, it became abundantly clear that Zendesk had outgrown it’s office space. The tech firm, which specializes in cloud-based help desk software, was…

Recriminations Abound In Wake Of Muni Drivers’ Rejection Of Contract Agreement With SFMTA

In a vote that sent shockwaves though San Francisco, the membership of the Transit Workers Union (Local 250-A) has resoundingly rejected the terms of a…

Video of Crazed Cabbie Indicative of Greater Disquiet Among SF Taxi Drivers

Ed Meng just wanted to go home. It was late last Sunday night and Meng needed to get out of Potero Hill and back to…

Angry Driver Attacks Mission Cyclists

Riding a bike in San Francisco is difficult enough without cars deliberately running you over. When a driver decides to to make it his business…

Muni Reaches Tentative Agreement With Operators Union Although Feuding Continues

Elsewhere: SFMTA Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement with Muni Operators Union [Streetsblog], Muni reaches tentative contract with drivers [Chron], Muni management, operators union reach tentative agreement…

Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Shady Business Practices At Yelp Returns From The Dead

Only weeks after a judge dismissed a class action lawsuit by a group of small business owners against Yelp, that very same group has filed…

Aspiring Police Commissioner Faces Questions About Domestic Violence Incident

Whoever ends up filling Jim Hammer’s seat on the Police Commission is going to have their work cut out for them. Just this past month,…

Your Comprehensive Guide To SF Popfest

Union Street Fair To Ban Booze, Rebrand As Arts And Crafts Event

A few years ago I was at the Union Street Fair and, exhausted from watching shirtless bros with frosted tips elbow their ways though the…

Legal Fight Expected As Richmond Neighborhood Fights Incoming Pet Supply Giant

In a city where dogs easily outnumber children, one might think that any new place to procure pooch-sized strollers, tiny argyle sweater vests and the…

Parks Department Commissioner Suggests Policy Change In Wake Of Judge’s Rebuke

After Judge Loretta Giorgi admonished Recreation and Parks Department staffers for suggesting a company they favored to win the contract to operate the historic Stow…

Judge Halts Masonic Center’s Transformation Into Full-Scale Concert Venue

Despite full approval from the Board of Supervisors and pressure from the world’s largest concert promoter, a judge has put Live Nation’s plans to turn…

San Francisco Picks Microsoft Over Google For City’s Email Service

In a major blow to the ego of the Mountain View-based tech giant in the city’s backyard, San Francisco has chosen Microsoft’s Exchange Online system…

Judge Hands Major Victory To Out-of-Town Firm Looking to Take Over Stow Lake Boathouse

In the newest development in an ever-expanding controversy in the world of San Francisco politics, a judge has ruled in favor of Ortega Family Enterprises…

Muni To Propose $1.8 Million Plan For N Judah Express Buses

The N-Judah is one of the busiest transit lines in San Francisco. The light rail shuttles some 38,000 passengers between Ocean Beach and the Financial…

The Latest On SFMTA’s Plan To Hike Cab Rates

Monday afternoon saw the the last in a series of town halls held by SFMTA to hammer out the final version of a plan to…

Braves Coach Who Assailed Giants Fans With Threats and Homophobic Slurs Returns to Work

After two weeks of watching the Braves from the comfort of his living room, pitching coach Roger McDowell has returned to his position with the…

Passenger Hit By Car While Exiting Muni Raises Safety Questions

On her blog, A Streetcar Called Taraval, Katie Haverkamp recounts stumbling upon the scene of a grizzly grisly accident during her Wednesday evening commute. “Today…

Supervisors Chew Out SFMTA Managers Over Muni Overtime Pay

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee yesterday, board members assailed SFMTA brass after it was reported that the…

BART Cop Jailed For Shooting Oscar Grant To Death Expected To Get Out Of Jail Next Month

After serving less than half of his two year manslaughter sentence for the 2009 death of Oscar Grant, former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle is…

High-Powered Lobbyist Faces Mounting Scandal As Clients Continue To Depart

A scandal that began after questions were raised over a handful of conversations with Recreation and Parks Department staffers has grown into a swirling gyre…

SFMTA Roundup: Don’t Give Nat Ford A Buyout, Give Your Muni Driver A Hug, Give Taxi Drivers Their Freedom

Nat Ford’s Personal Bailout Nobody likes SFMTA chief Nat Ford. The CEO of SF’s transit agency didn’t make a lot of friends around town when…