Four days after San Francisco voters cast their ballots, community activist Ed Jew has emerged as the winner of the Board of Supervisors District 4 race to replace Fiona Ma, according to unofficial results released by the Department of Elections on Friday.Also, Supervisor Chris Daly has prevailed in the District 6 race over his main challenger, Rob Black, whose anti-Daly campaign was largely funded by Daly’s opponents in the business community. Mayor Gavin Newsom also endorsed Black in an attempt to unseat Daly, his political adversary. Read More

A group of restaurant owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday that could jeopardize funding for The City’s ambitious plan to provide health care for more than 82,000 uninsured residents.Pushed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano, the recently adopted health care ordinance was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors, but largely opposed by the business community, which will have to pay a portion of the program’s estimated $200 million price tag. The program is expected to begin this July. Read More

San Francisco has become the first-ever city to require that businesses offer paid sick days to employees.Proposition F forces businesses to provide paid sick days by February 2007. Businesses with fewer than 10 workers must offer five paid sick days a year per worker and those with 10 or more workers must provide nine paid sick days, according to the measure. Workers, who must accrue the sick days, would be allowed to also take a sick day to take care of an ill family member. Read More

The latest piece of public art on San Francisco Port land will likely stand 7 feet high and span 30 feet, honoring the Bay Area Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.The San Francisco Port Commission is expected to vote Nov. 14 on whether to allow the artwork’s installation near the east wall of the Vaillancourt Fountain at Justin Herman Plaza. It would be only the third monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the United States. Read More

Lawsuit alleges three companies neglected to roll back gate fee during 26-month period, costing drivers $8MA group of taxi drivers filed a lawsuit Thursday against three of the largest cab companies in San Francisco for allegedly overcharging them to take cabs out for a day’s work.United Taxicab Workers, a group of about 500 cabdrivers, allege that Yellow Cab, Luxor Cab and Speck Cab Co. owe cabdrivers up to $8 million in total overcharges. Read More

Event in favor of Prop. 87 features former president, city politicians, musical actsFormer President Bill Clinton and local rockers turned a Wednesday evening political rally outside of City Hall into a party.For more than an hour, a star-studded lineup took to the stage to pump up Proposition 87, a ballot measure before voters this Tuesday that would tax oil production in California. Rock music poured out of large speakers hanging over the makeshift stage set up in Civic Center Plaza, inspiring the crowd to dance and shout as they waited for speakers. Read More

Members want to stop plan to replace SoMa courts with market-rate condos, retailMembers of a private tennis club in the South of Market area are fighting to prevent a developer from demolishing their courts and say recreational facilities throughout San Francisco are under siege by development. Read More