Some leading San Francisco Democrats want Mayor Ed Lee to appoint a mother to the Board of Supervisors in order to boost the political representation of both women and families in the city.
“San Francisco is back on track and building a solid economic foundation for all residents,” said mayor Ed Lee at his first State of the City Address at the educational nonprofit College Track in Bayview on Monday.
City and state leaders recognize UCSF Mission Bay’s “bioscience ecosystem” as a model to be replicated nationally, as they celebrate its 10th anniversary.
San Francisco’s Chinatown Community Development Center is getting money thrown its way from the Mayor’s Office, but has little to show for it and even less accountability, according to new accusations launched by mayoral candidate Leland Yee.
The San Francisco Subway project inspired a sometimes raucous yet tightly-controlled debate at the Chinese Cultural Center on Wednesday, offering insight into Chinatown politics.
Despite bristling against unfair `red-baiting` of Ed Lee, the incumbent`s mayoral campaign has made central to its Chinese-language poster effort an only slightly-altered quote from Mao Zedong, the reddest communist of them all.
Interim Mayor Ed Lee railed against the Democratic County Central Committee’s failure to endorse a Chinese-American or Asian candidate during this year’s mayoral race.
In an odd coincidence of events, after The Epoch Times published an article about alleged collusion and corruption between Rose Pak and Ed Lee, hundreds of newspapers carrying the report vanished from boxes around the city.