Mayor Appoints New SFO Director

Mayor Appoints New SFO Director

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today announced the appointment of Ivar Satero as director of San Francisco International Airport. Satero, SFO’s chief operating officer, previously…

Push For Emergency Declaration of Homelessness Moves Forward

Push For Emergency Declaration of Homelessness Moves Forward

Despite opposition from Mayor Ed Lee, legislation declaring a state of emergency on homelessness in San Francisco is headed toward the Board of Supervisors with…

Mayor Announces Second Navigation Center, New Supportive Housing Units

Mayor Announces Second Navigation Center, New Supportive Housing Units

A year after the opening of the Navigation Center in San Francisco’s Mission District, a widely-praised, innovative shelter program designed to move homeless residents into…

Protestors Call for Police Chief’s Resignation During Mayor’s Swearing In

Protestors Call for Police Chief’s Resignation During Mayor’s Swearing In

Dozens of rowdy protesters called for San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr’s resignation during a swearing in ceremony for Mayor Ed Lee today. Lee’s introduction…

Protestors Rally Outside Mayor Ed Lee’s Home, Call for His Resignation

Protestors Rally Outside Mayor Ed Lee’s Home, Call for His Resignation

More than a dozen protesters marched to the house of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today, calling for his resignation to the wake of recent…

Mayor Announces Completion of Switch to Renewable Diesel for City Transportation Fleet

Mayor Announces Completion of Switch to Renewable Diesel for City Transportation Fleet

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced today at a summit in Portland, Oregon that the city’s transportation fleet has completed swapping its petroleum diesel for…

Mayor Lee to Create New Department to Combat Homelessness

Mayor Lee to Create New Department to Combat Homelessness

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced plans today to create a new Department to End Homelessness and spend $1 billion over the next four years…

Mayor Calls for Increase in Affordable Housing Requirement for new Developments

Mayor Calls for Increase in Affordable Housing Requirement for new Developments

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today called for a ballot measure that would increase the amount of affordable housing developers are required to include in…

Mayor Lee Wins Re-Election with 57 Percent of Vote

Mayor Lee Wins Re-Election with 57 Percent of Vote

Mayor Ed Lee appears to have won re-election after defeating a diverse group of candidates Tuesday, according to complete unofficial election results. Lee, the 43rd…

Prop F Aims To Place Expanded Restrictions On Short-Term Rentals

Prop F Aims To Place Expanded Restrictions On Short-Term Rentals

A measure on San Francisco’s ballot in next week’s election will decide whether there needs to be stricter enforcement and limits on short-term rentals of…

Mayor and SFUSD Superintendent Announce Plan for Dedicated Teacher Housing

Mayor and SFUSD Superintendent Announce Plan for Dedicated Teacher Housing

Many teachers in San Francisco can’t afford to live in the city as housing prices continue to rise – and that’s why Mayor Ed Lee…

Citywide Unemployment Drops To 3.2 Percent, Statewide Unemployment Drops To 5.9 Percent

Citywide Unemployment Drops To 3.2 Percent, Statewide Unemployment Drops To 5.9 Percent

While San Francisco’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.2 percent in September, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said today that he remains committed to “ensuring that…

Mayor Backs Flexible Affordable House Requirements

Mayor Backs Flexible Affordable House Requirements

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell today introduced an ordinance that would give developers more flexibility in satisfying city laws requiring the…

Judge Declines to Seal Allegedly Confidential Documents Filed by Raymond Chow

Judge Declines to Seal Allegedly Confidential Documents Filed by Raymond Chow

A federal judge in San Francisco today turned down a prosecution request to seal documents in which racketeering defendant Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow disclosed excerpts…

Chow Claims Selective Prosecution; Lee, Breed Deny Allegations

Chow Claims Selective Prosecution; Lee, Breed Deny Allegations

Chinatown association leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow asked a federal court in San Francisco today to dismiss racketeering and organized-crime charges against him on the…

Mayor Lee Signs No-Cut City Budget, Increasing City Services

Mayor Lee Signs No-Cut City Budget, Increasing City Services

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and members of the Board of Supervisors gathered at City Hall today for the signing of a no-cut budget that…

City Fleet To Adopt Use of Renewable Diesel Fuel

City Fleet To Adopt Use of Renewable Diesel Fuel

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced today that the city’s municipal fleet of vehicles are switching from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel by the end…

Mayor Proposes Below Average Cost Rental Development

Mayor Proposes Below Average Cost Rental Development

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee introduced a proposal to city legislators today to build apartments in the Mission neighborhood that sell for less than average,…

Budget and Finance Committee Approves Mayor’s Two Year, $8.9B City Budget

Budget and Finance Committee Approves Mayor’s Two Year, $8.9B City Budget

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously today to support the $8.9 billion two-year city budget proposed by San Francisco…

Judge Orders Political Consultant Charged with Possession of Child Pornography to Stay Away from Minors

Judge Orders Political Consultant Charged with Possession of Child Pornography to Stay Away from Minors

A San Francisco Superior Court judge issued a protective order today prohibiting prominent San Francisco political consultant Juan Enrique Pearce, who is charged with six…

Mayor Signs on to President’s New “Startup in a Day” Small Business Initiative

Mayor Signs on to President’s New “Startup in a Day” Small Business Initiative

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is signing on to President Barack Obama’s new “Startup in a Day” initiative challenging local municipalities to prune down the…

Mayor Lee to File Nomination Papers Seeking Reelection in November

Mayor Lee to File Nomination Papers Seeking Reelection in November

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will file nomination papers this morning to seek reelection as mayor of San Francisco in November, campaign officials said. The…

Mayor Ed Lee Announces $250M Housing Bond, Supervisor Avalos Presses for More

Mayor Ed Lee Announces $250M Housing Bond, Supervisor Avalos Presses for More

San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos thanked Mayor Ed Lee for introducing a $250 million Affordable Housing General Obligation Bond today but urged him to do…

Mayor Lee Announces $48.1M in Additional Funding for Muni

Mayor Lee Announces $48.1M in Additional Funding for Muni

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today announced a proposed additional $48.1 million investment into the city’s public transit system that would allow the San Francisco…

Mayor Lee Proposes Funding SFPD Body-Mounted Cameras

Mayor Lee Proposes Funding SFPD Body-Mounted Cameras

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today proposed equipping police officers with body-mounted cameras, among other public safety reforms including the hiring of 250 new police…

Mayor Urges Citizens to Prepare for Emergencies

Mayor Urges Citizens to Prepare for Emergencies

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is urging families to take steps to be prepared for an emergency, the mayor said in a statement on the…

Mayor Lee, Supervisor Farrell Propose Amendments to Airbnb Law

Mayor Lee, Supervisor Farrell Propose Amendments to Airbnb Law

Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell have proposed amendments to San Francisco’s short-term rental law in hopes of making it more enforceable and streamlined….

Pelosi, Mayor Lee Champion CCSF’s Contributions to SF Economy

Pelosi, Mayor Lee Champion CCSF’s Contributions to SF Economy

Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee gathered with students and faculty at City College of San Francisco’s Downtown campus today…

Attorney for Port Commissioner Says Mayor Making ‘Rush to Judgment’

Attorney for Port Commissioner Says Mayor Making ‘Rush to Judgment’

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has asked port commissioner Mel Murphy to resign following a lawsuit filed last week by the city attorney over his…

Officials, Civil Rights Groups and Police Union Condemn Biased Text Messages Allegedly Sent by Four SFPD Officers

Officials, Civil Rights Groups and Police Union Condemn Biased Text Messages Allegedly Sent by Four SFPD Officers

Public officials, civil rights groups and a police officers’ union today condemned racist and homophobic text messages allegedly sent by four San Francisco officers, while…

Mayor Ed Lee Recognizes Good Samaritans’ Community Contributions Following Three Major Fires in January

Mayor Ed Lee Recognizes Good Samaritans’ Community Contributions Following Three Major Fires in January

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and members of the Board of Supervisors today recognized the contributions made by a handful of individuals and businesses that…

Public Housing Units to be Rehabilitated as Private Entities Take Over Management

Public Housing Units to be Rehabilitated as Private Entities Take Over Management

San Francisco’s long-dilapidated public housing units will receive a $500 million facelift over the next three years as the units are transitioned to private property…

SFO Reports Record Passenger Traffic in 2014

SFO Reports Record Passenger Traffic in 2014

San Francisco International Airport set another record for passenger traffic last year, airport officials said Friday. Last year 47.2 million passengers traveled through the airport,…

Mayor Pushes SFPUC to Launch CleanPower SF, Create City-Run Clean Energy Program by 2016

Mayor Pushes SFPUC to Launch CleanPower SF, Create City-Run Clean Energy Program by 2016

After years of planning, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is asking the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to launch a city-run clean energy program for…

Mayor Lee Calls for Shared Economic Prosperity in State of the City Address

Mayor Lee Calls for Shared Economic Prosperity in State of the City Address

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee delivered his annual State of the City address today and shared his plan to reduce the city’s economic gap by…

SF Mayor Expands ‘Preschool for All’ Program

SF Mayor Expands ‘Preschool for All’ Program

Mayor Ed Lee announced an expansion of San Francisco’s preschool assistance program today that he said will give the city’s parents the best access to…

Mayor Lee Announces Expansion of New Muni Light-Rail Fleet

Mayor Lee Announces Expansion of New Muni Light-Rail Fleet

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced this morning his plan to add an additional 40 light-rail vehicles to the Municipal Railway fleet in addition to…

Julie Christensen Appointed by Mayor Lee as New District 3 Supe

Julie Christensen Appointed by Mayor Lee as New District 3 Supe

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today appointed small business owner and political activist Julie Christensen as the new supervisor for the city’s District 3. The…

Mayor Appoints City’s New Chief Information Officer

Mayor Appoints City’s New Chief Information Officer

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee this week announced his appointment for the new director of the city’s Department of Technology. Miguel Gamiño, formerly the chief…

Shrimp Boy: Mayor Lee “did something illegal and wants to hide it”

Shrimp Boy: Mayor Lee “did something illegal and wants to hide it”

A lawsuit filed Thursday against San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee by Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow and Alfred Scolari claims that Lee failed to disclose documents…