Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty is expected to be appointed by Mayor Ed Lee to a position that will focus on creating housing opportunities for the homeless and work directly with social service organizations in The City. Dufty ran for mayor against Lee in November, but he set himself apart from the crowded field of candidates by welcoming the mayor to the race when others were hostile toward Lee.
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New rule: If you have a history of pushing the buttons of law enforcement and someday the public finds out you have been accused of a crime, then you can righteously declare yourself a victim of “forces at work that want to stop [you].”And your supporters will be far more enraged at the story getting out than at the fact that you have been accused of a crime.
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The City could be facing an additional $60 million annually in employee pension contributions, due to the unpredictability of the stock market.
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It was a full house at City Hall Sunday morning, as thousands turned out to witness the inauguration of Ed Lee, the first elected Asian-American mayor in San Francisco’s history.
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Happy New Year, dear readers! Having recovered from our election hangover, we must immediately reach for the next fix: the 2012 elections. What can we look forward to this November? Taxes, taxes and more taxes.
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With the new year comes new laws that Sacramento’s finest spent the year debating, crafting and voting on.
The state’s legislators were busy banning shark fin soup, increasing gun restrictions, advancing gay rights, tackling PG&E’s safety problems and taxing Internet sales.
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January
The year started out with a giddy Board of Supervisors, whose members believed they had found the perfect temporary mayor. Yes, unassuming bureaucrat Edwin Lee seemed like the perfect replacement for that other guy who lives in Marin now. Unfortunately, they were too busy patting themselves on the back to realize they were readying the area to be stabbed when Mayor Mustache decided to stay in the job.
February
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Supervisor David Campos has proposed a charter amendment to “tweak” San Francisco’s ranked-choice voting system by expanding the number of votes each of us gets from three to “however many candidates are running for office.” For example, if his law had been in place this past November, each voter would have been able to rank all sixteen mayoral candidates in order of preference.
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People throughout San Francisco today shared sidewalks, public parks and bar space with several hundred people dressed as Santa Claus, elves, reindeer and other holiday figures for SantaCon 2011.
For more photos from SantaCon 2011, click on the photo to the right.
The annual gathering and pub crawl, in which thousands of Santas descend upon cities worldwide, drew more than 1,000 people to San Francisco's Civic Center around noon today to kick off the holiday fun.
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Public Defender Jeff Adachi is known as the guy who made City Hall take pension reform seriously. His initial effort last year, Proposition B, was defeated after labor leaders led a well-funded campaign against it while promising to draft a better solution for the November ballot.
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