Subject: Barbara Boxer

• Berkeley's Marine Corp Hatred Not as Cheap as It Used to Be

  February 15, 2008

• BART Accused of Being Late -- in Paying Out to Survivors of Track Inspector Killed by Train

  When it rains, it pours -- and, right now, BART is in the middle of a veritable monsoon. Atop the ongoing unrest that comes with BART police beating and shooting an unarmed man (and, more tellingly, video of said offense hitting the news), now the widow and child of a former BART employee killed by a speeding train are accusing the agency of putting the brakes on survivor payments. A terse release sent to Bay Area media outlets accused BART of not yet paying dollar one to the family of James Str

  February 2, 2009

• Get Up, Stand Up: Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill to the Press

  Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's press conference this morning announcing his marijuana-legalization bill started punctually and stayed relentlessly on-point -- thereby denying a barb to every journalist present.Ammiano and the assembled speakers at San Francisco's State Building also spoke calmly and methodically, at one point being drowned out by a floor-waxer. The famously funny lawmaker reined himself in, presenting "The Marijuana Control, regulation and education act (AB 390)" as a simple matter o

  February 23, 2009

• We Won! Feinstein, Boxer Top 2009 Earmark List

  To paraphrase Peggy Lee, Barbara Boxer brings home the bacon, and Dianne Feinstein fries it up in a pan, according to the most recently updated list of senatorial porkmiesters and mistresses compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington advocacy group. According to the list, California's Senators have ordered 733 earmarks valued at $569 million, busting the balls of loser states such as Wyoming, which only got $14.5 million in goodies from the $410 billion spending bill Pre

  March 16, 2009

• Off-Base (Part I)

  January 10, 1996

• Dog Bites

  April 24, 1996

• Potential Savior of South Bay Baseball May Be Politically Conflicted

  Tick, tick, tick...As we noted earlier this week, hope springs eternal on Opening Day -- but the Oakland A's tenure in the East Bay may not be nearly as perpetual. For those of you who were unaware that Oakland owner Lew Wolff and the South Bay -- a region that craves Major League sports franchises the fervency of Ratso Rizzo's desire to go to Florida -- have been playing footsie under the table, here's some other news: The American League has instituted the Designated Hitter Rule!For the first

  April 9, 2009

• What’s in David Chiu’s political baggage?

  February 18, 2009

• Train Wreck

  Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

  November 5, 2008

• Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

  Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  March 26, 2008

• Newsom Snubbed by Democrats

  Even without a major opponent, Mayor Gavin Newsom fails to get a Democratic Club's endorsement

  September 19, 2007

• Harboring a Land Bonanza

  February 14, 2007

• Let the Gaming Begin

  Has a labor boss in trouble with the feds joined a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Harbor Resort with Indian gambling?

  January 17, 2007

• A Union Made in Political Heaven

  January 10, 2007

• Battleship Down

  The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  January 10, 2007

• Talkin' Dirty

  October 18, 2006

• A Time to Run

  November 30, 2005

• Cat Food

  November 2, 2005

• She's a Fighter

  Bay Area represent!

  July 6, 2005

• Look Carefully

  Art that goes bump in the night

  April 27, 2005

• Chard Into Memory

  Food for when you're in danger of becoming a hopeless pessimist

  February 9, 2005

• Jackpot

  How four tiny Indian tribes, with help from powerful gambling interests, are trying to transform the Bay Area into a slot machine Mecca

  October 27, 2004

• Diseaseville

  Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

  August 27, 2003

• The World According to Bechtel

  There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• It's a Bechtel World

  Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• Undercover Brother

  May 29, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of May 22, 2002

  May 22, 2002

• Eye on the Prize

  February 20, 2002

• Slow Sailing

  With prodding from Congress, plans to transfer Hunters Point Shipyard land to San Francisco are inching along

  January 16, 2002

• Dragon Bites

  A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated; We Have Plenty of Lines Open; Annals of Blowback; Press Release of the Week

  June 13, 2001

• Pointed Queries

  Three California members of Congress are demanding information from the Navy about radioactive materials at Hunters Point Shipyard

  May 23, 2001

• Fallout

  May 9, 2001

• Who Is Clint Reilly, Really?

  He's running for mayor again, and this time he wants to define himself, before his enemies do it for him

  February 21, 2001

• American High

  With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable war

  January 3, 2001

• A Boy Scout No More

  Since he was 12, Steven Cozza has led a crusade against the Scouts' anti-gay policies. What will happen now that he's grown up to discover sports and girls?

  September 20, 2000

• Current Events

  How development pressure and environmental law may force radical change along the seemingly idyllic but deeply troubled Russian River

  August 2, 2000

• Postscript

  July 12, 2000

• Support Your Local Embezzler

  Hometown thieves we'll tolerate, but not southern sexists

  December 23, 1998

• Uno Mas

  March 4, 1998

• Dog Bites

  February 18, 1998

• Unspun

  September 25, 1996

• Slow Food Potluck Draws Hundreds to Civic Center on Labor Day

  mental.masala/FlickrThe Civic Center event was one of several in the city.​Slow Food San Francisco president Dava Guthmiller estimated about 400 people showed up at a potluck in Civic Center yesterday. The event was one of more than 300 Labor Day Eat-Ins organized by Slow Food USA, a kickoff to its Time for Lunch campaign to pressure Congress to enact reforms to national school lunch programs. Organizers had been hoping for as many as 700 in Civic Center. Guthmiller reckoned that 80 to 85

  September 8, 2009

• Too Cute to Shoot?

  October 7, 2009

• Bay Links: Bike Saddles, Meryl Streep & Tequila

  via BoingBoing​Bike saddles almost too nice to sit on. [BoingBoing] Senator Barbara Boxer has a piggy bank worth $6.3 million cash. [SFGate] Frank Chu hits up the Sanctuary City meeting. He. Is. Everywhere. [Sweet Melissa] Holy crap. They're remaking Red Dawn!!! [Burrito Justice] Ride along in an SFFD ambulance. And flip the bird. [Fecal Face]In which Playboy assesses the quality of our tequila peddling establishments. [Grubstreet]Want to watch Meryl Streep sing bad ABBA covers? OUTDOORS? [Ber

  October 9, 2009