Mike Ege

San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew swore in 12 new police officers on Monday. Still, they aren’t rookies — they’re what is known as “lateral transfers,” experienced cops who started their careers in other agencies. The event marks the largest hire of such personnel in over 10 years and was described in a statement from […]

This November, San Francisco and four other counties are set to vote on new taxes that promise to solve looming structural operating deficits that plague the region’s transit agencies. Next to the Northeast Corridor, the Bay Area is the most transit-friendly region in the country. But the post-Covid-19 era has crippled the ambitious growth plans […]

This November, San Francisco and four other counties are set to vote on new taxes that promise to solve looming structural operating deficits that plague the region's transit agencies.

San Francisco voters are once again being handed a small novella disguised as a ballot, with 10 local measures and a regional transit measure awaiting them Nov. 3. The pile is hardly unprecedented — voters faced 15 local propositions in 2024 and 25 in 2016 — but this year’s crop makes one thing clear: this […]

The race for District 10 supervisor, already the one race this November with the biggest cast of characters, could be spicing up as longtime neighborhood p

San Francisco voters are once again being handed a small novella disguised as a ballot, with 10 local measures and a regional transit measure awaiting them

San Francisco lawmakers return from summer recess on Tuesday to consider multiple thorny issues, including Mayor Daniel Lurie’s permit streamlining agenda, corporate pressure on behavioral health workers, and how to keep Fleet Week from becoming a goat rodeo. They will likely also approve what may be the largest employment-related payout involving system-wide discrimination in the […]

San Francisco lawmakers return from summer recess on Tuesday to consider multiple thorny issues, including Mayor Daniel Lurie’s permit streamlining agenda,

District 10 supervisor candidate Shawn Richard called on an independent committee backing rival candidate Theo Ellington to redirect a $500,000 contribution from cryptocurrency billionaire Chris Larsen toward Bayview-Hunters Point churches and community groups, asking that the money be used to buy groceries and household supplies for struggling families, at a City Hall news conference Sunday. […]

San Francisco’s transparency watchdog will get a chance to come back to life Monday, when the Board of Supervisors considers appointments to nine of the 11 voting seats on the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force — seats that have been vacant since June, leaving the body without a quorum just as it was pursuing a complaint […]