Thomas K. Pendergast

By Thomas K. Pendergast Although most media coverage of San Francisco’s upcoming elections has focused on big money donors like Ron Conway and others, a sampling of who is giving smaller donations of less than $500 each also tells a story. In the Richmond District, the two leading candidates for supervisor, incumbent Connie Chan and third-time challenger Marjan Philhour, have been raising money from very different sources to fund their respective campaigns.

By Thomas K. Pendergast Efforts by State Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Mayor London Breed to rapidly increase the City’s housing supply are getting roasted by advocates, activists and politicians concerned about land speculators fattening their portfolios at the expense of small business owners and residential tenants.

By Thomas K. Pendergast The latest plans for the massive building projects on the Parnassus campus of the University of California San Francisco were made public recently, amid neighborhood concerns about noise and pollution as construction is already well along.