Shahid Buttar’s campaign to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) seems at first glance a quixotic endeavor. In attempting to successfully primary an incumbent speaker of the house, Buttar, a Democrat, seeks to achieve a historic first. He also is...
Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and his pilot-program bill to extend drinking hours at bars in select California cities is set to be voted on again in Sacramento prior to the end of this legislative session. Senate Bill 58 would...
While private sector employers and workers are spending a bigger share of their income on their own health insurance plans, they don’t know they are also spending a bigger share of their income on public employees’ health plans. “Spending 52...
The San Francisco City and County Board of Supervisors just passed a Resolution declaring the National Rifle Association “a domestic terrorist organization.” “Resolution declaring that the National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization and urging other cities, states, and...
And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may...
Former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died suddenly in February from a case of acute mixed drug toxicity exacerbated by a previously-unknown coronary disease. That’s the official line from the autopsy conducted by the San Francisco medical examiner’s office,...
A newsroom employee led police to a freelance journalist whose home and business were raided in May in connection with the leak of a confidential police report on the death of former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. The reporter...