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City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Alameda Prosecutor Sharmin Bock each garnered the DCCC's second-place endorsement in their respective races for mayor and district attorney. No other candidates were endorsed.
At this point and much to my surprise there was a lot of booing and hissing from the audience. I thought at first that it was because Lee had just…
Proponents and volunteers gathered 12,869 signatures in less than five weeks to qualify the initiative, despite operatives from Recology – the holder of the City’s highly lucrative garbage collection monopoly…
What started as a fizzled anti-police brutality protest at BART's Civic Center station has spiraled into a San Francisco moment with echoes of the Arab Spring and V For Vendetta.…
A cool as a cucumber Avalos shows he's no cycling novice, shown fixing punctures and riding his bicycle without using his hands. Not sure if Board Prez and fellow mayoral…
In a surprising move, the 54,000 member SEIU 1021 union endorsed Mayor Lee's "consensus/city family" pension and healthcare reform measure over Public Defender Jeff Adachi's pension reform initiative. Under Lee's…
Nuru, who was first hired by Lee during the administration of former Mayor Willie Brown, was the subject of a series of ethical scandals involving the misappropriation of public funds…