City attorneys seeking to permanently remove Ross Mirkarimi as sheriff submitted a proposed witness list Tuesday for an upcoming Ethics Commission hearing that includes his campaign manager, whom they accuse of trying to thwart the Police Department’s domestic violence probe of the sheriff. Read More

Construction of a new public library serving North Beach will move forward after completion of an agreement reached between The City and PG&E to split the cost of utility work on part of the project, the Mayor’s Office has announced. The project — which was approved last year amid some controversy, with some locals arguing that the existing library at 2000 Mason St. should be preserved — will create a larger and more modern library just up the street at Lombard Street and Columbus Avenue and expand Joe DiMaggio Playground. Read More

Authorities have released the name of a man who died Friday night after possibly being attacked in Golden Gate Park. The man — identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as 55-year-old Robert Musial, of San Francisco — was found by Park Police Station officers on a bench behind the Sharon Art Studio at 7:22 p.m. Police said Musial’s breathing was labored and he appeared to be experiencing a medical emergency. Musial lost consciousness before an ambulance arrived and could not be revived, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Read More

As the tech company Dropbox opened a massive new China Basin headquarters Wednesday, Mayor Ed Lee touted the news as further proof of The City’s growing image as a tech capital.Dropbox — which offers cloud data storage services for users of personal computers — joins firms such as Twitter, Zynga and Salesforce as part of the mayor’s effort to portray San Francisco as the “innovation capital of the world.”“You really do represent, in my opinion, the most exciting job creation that we have,” Lee told the company’s 100-plus employees. Read More

Drawing on the specter of a massive earthquake that could leave the sick and injured in the streets, Mayor Ed Lee cautioned the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday not to hold up a proposed deal between The City and California Pacific Medical Center for two major hospital projects. “I wouldn’t want any of the supervisors to feel the sting that if they didn’t move early on this, that we would fail before the next earthquake to have had two major hospitals in The City rebuilt, to the best interest of our citizens,” Lee told reporters prior to introducing the proposal to the board. Read More

As budget season warms up, police Chief Greg Suhr is warning that The City’s low homicide rate could grow if more officers are not put on the streets.The Police Department’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year has increased to $480 million, Suhr told the Board of Supervisors budget committee last week. Nearly 90 percent of that is pre-negotiated pay, he said. Read More

Supporters of Union Square’s Gold Dust Lounge were shown the door by The City’s Historic Preservation Commission on Wednesday, which voted 5-2 against granting the bar landmark status as part of a flagging effort to save it from eviction.Commissioners noted the popular outcry in support of the bar, which has been at Geary and Powell streets since 1966, but the general view was that it didn’t meet the criteria for a historic city landmark. Even if it were declared a landmark, Commissioner Andrew Wolfram noted, the owners could still be evicted. Read More