Answer: You get The Sweet Melissa!
It’s not saying much, but Los Angeles is way ahead of San Francisco when it comes to a functional municipal legislative body. In the blogging department, however, as much as I appreciate the watchful eye our own bloggers keep on City Hall, only San Francisco has Melissa Griffin. A practicing […]

The City by the Bay has a reputation for being a bastion of progressive politics, but you wouldn’t know it from the fight my dear friend Michela Alioto-Pier is having trying to make the board chamber wheelchair-accessible. John M. Glionna of the LA Times has the story:
What message, Alioto-Pier asked, does it send the disabled […]

Charlie Goodyear of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on what Michela has up her sleeve for Tuesday:
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier plans to introduce legislation Tuesday that would rebate city-imposed fees and expenses on big-budget filmmakers who film at least 65 percent of their principal photography in San Francisco. For productions under $3 million, shooting 55 percent […]

Casey Mills of Beyond Chron previews the San Francisco political battles looming ahead:
Locally, 2005 ended up being a relatively quiet election year. ’06, however, should be quite different. With five Supervisor’s races, contested State Assembly and Senate races, a formidable list of ballot initiatives in the pipeline, and the entire Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) […]

Jo Stanley of the San Francisco Examiner reports on Supervisor Alioto-Pier’s effort to to cut down on rampant unemployment among disabled and homeless people by offering businesses that hire them a payroll-tax credit.