A proposal by Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Mark Farrell to end San Francisco's experiment with Ranked Choice Voting will come before the board Feb. 14, and RCV suporters are organizing to fight it. According to an email I just got from Steve Hill, one o

Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown are accused of corruption in a case that Matt Gonzalez is working on. Wow, talk about burying the lead. Here you have a sitting mayor implicated in a major corruption scandal – acting on orders from then-Mayor W

The war continues against women. It takes many forms. The latest is the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization's pulling of Planned Parenthood funding ("Outrage over decision by charity to cut Planned Parenthood funds," Feb. 2). This is part of the ong

Matt Gonzalez, the former Board of Supervisors President and current chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, has been doing some moonlighting for a client with a $16 million lawsuit out against the city of San Francisco. As the Chro

Matt Gonzalez, the former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president and now chief attorney in the public defender's office, was in court the other day - but not to represent an indigent defendant. Public Defender Jeff Adachi is allowing Gonzalez, his

San Francisco's 2011 mayoral election was a cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of reform. The first test of public financing proved an expensive mess. Ranked-choice voting confused many voters. Each of those "reforms" needs to be reconside

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. The Wead man comes thru BIG TIME. Ron should start having Doug and Tom do his interviews as pre-interview test to weed out the nasty interviewer's. Give

Huffington Post - The idea of creating a [San Francisco] local municipal bank has been around for a long time. It was a demand of the 1975 San Francisco Community Congress, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors commissioned a Legislative Analyst Rep

Mayor Ed Lee made the official leap from longtime City Hall bureaucrat to politician when voters elected him to a four-year term this month. Now, his political moxie will be tested again when he picks the replacement for Sheriff-elect Ross Mirkarimi on t