Post-Election, San Francisco Mayor Lee Looks To Tackle His To-Do List
With the ranked choice ballots calculated, voters are now looking for SF's Mayor Ed Lee to fulfill his campaign promises and deal with a city-wide eight percent unemployment rate.
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With the ranked choice ballots calculated, voters are now looking for SF's Mayor Ed Lee to fulfill his campaign promises and deal with a city-wide eight percent unemployment rate.
Elections workers will be burning in the midnight oil for the next several days according to Solano County's Assistant Registrar.
With the votes counted and the winners declared, Mayor Ed Lee is turning his attention to matters impacting the city, including the demonstrators at Justin Herman Plaza.
A judge has ordered California to scrap plans to run bullet trains from the Central Valley and up the San Francisco Peninsula in the latest bump for a $99 billion project.
Opponents of anti-piracy legislation recently introduced on Capitol Hill are warning that the bill could be devastating to Internet innovation.
The Santa Rosa City Council approved by a 5-2 vote Thursday night an urgency ordinance that allows 'Occupy Santa Rosa' protesters to apply for a permit to continue camping at City Hall.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has popularized a new mode of protest that challenges the definition of First Amendment freedom.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to repeal a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, but the legislation - sponsored by Sen. Diane Feinstein - lacks vote for passage in either the House or the full Senate.
San Franciscans appeared poised late Wednesday afternoon to elect their first Asian-American mayor as a result of an instant ranked-choice voting system that was launched when no candidate got a majority of Tuesday's vote.
About 30 shouting Occupy Oakland protesters disrupted a news conference in which four City Council members and business leaders called for the immediate removal of the encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza.
San Francisco Supervisor Carmen Chu is disappointed to see the failure of a tax measure that she says would have gone to ease the city's budget problems.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, former SFPD chief, held a commanding lead in his bid for election, while ranked-choice votes also showed that Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was likely to become San Francisco's new sheriff.
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco is set to be featured in an upcoming CBS News '60 Minutes' investigation that will apparently raise questions about potential conflicts of interest involving her personal investments.
Emails released by a House committee appear to show that a major donor to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign discussed with White House officials a federal loan to failed Fremont solar company Solyndra Inc.
San Francisco's sheriff's race remained up in the air after the initial round of ranked-choice voting in Tuesday's election, with Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi holding a narrow lead over two challengers.
