Chris Daly

Guardian Tries to Sell Out

Every progressive has his price. For the San Francisco Bay Guardian, it's apparently $1  million. For decades, the Guardian and its staff have insulted the Weekly and its writers because we were purchased by an out-of-town corporation. Now that the Guardian is seriously entertaining the idea of ... More >>

On Second Thought, the Guardian Is Perfect and Progressives Are Doing Great

​A strange thing happened at January's farewell "roast" for Supervisor Chris Daly -- something that neatly encapsulated the spirit of San Francisco's progressive movement. Earlier that week, David Chiu had betrayed progressives by championing Willie Brown's candidate for mayor. But even though Chi ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee Drops by Chris Daly's Dive for a Nonalcoholic Beer

Was Mayor Ed Lee entertained or did he do the entertaining at Daly's dive?​Anyone who even sits on the sidelines at City Hall knows that Buck Tavern is where you go to sniff out good stories. Political stories, that is. That's one reason why reporters flock to former Supervisor Chris Daly's bar on ... More >>

John Avalos: Will He Run for Mayor or Not?

He has what Chris Daly doesn't -- electability ​Not too long ago Supervisor John Avalos said, verbatim, that he was not running for mayor of San Francisco. Suddenly, in the last week, the District 11 supe has changed his tune and surprised people with talk about jumping into the race. Serious talk ... More >>

How Chris Daly saved San Francisco from a bad America's Cup deal

Oaksterdam's Richard Lee Attends Daly Roast, Treated to Wheelchair Joke

No Joke​Aside from his fleeting visibility in the media during his push to legalize marijuana with Proposition 19, Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee is a loner. Lee is known for keeping a low profile -- both in Oakland and with the media --  so much so that he was described as a ... More >>

Candy Man Offers San Francisco Political Predictions

The candy man can ... predict San Francisco's next mayor? ​One of the most remarkable aspects of the ongoing mayoral selection rigmarole is that even City Hall's best and brightest are utterly flummoxed. The procedure to choose Gavin Newsom's successor, aptly described by Supervisor Chris Daly as ... More >>

America's Cup: San Francisco's Chances Are Sinking, Thanks to Chris Daly

America's Cup Organizers' Surprise Rejection of Latest Terms All About Securing Pier 50 For Waterfront Arena, Supervisor SaysChris Daly's tenacity -- and the fiscal studies he demanded -- may have sunk San Francisco's chances at the America's Cup​"Worse things happen at sea" will come as cold com ... More >>

Supervisors' 'Clusterf*ck' Mayoral Selection Process: What Comes Next?

Will the supes fall in line behind a candidate? Or will this continue to be a 'clusterf*ck'?​Those who watched and participated in last night's oft-surreal crafting of the process that will be used to nominate the next mayor will likely suffer from flashbacks. Reporters, supervisors, and the poor, ... More >>

Supervisors Settle on 'Clusterf*ck' Process to Pick Next Mayor -- Possible Decision on Dec. 7

Supervisor Chris Daly twice described today's process of deciding the next mayor as a 'clusterfuck.' He may be right. ​The process of deciding how the Board of Supervisors will pick the next mayor required tedious procedural discussions recalling consumptive Dostoevskian soliloquies, an hourlong r ... More >>

Chris Daly Votes for Gavin Newsom

Photographic evidence! ​Among Mayor Gavin Newsom's nemeses, Supervisor Chris Daly is often front and center. It could be because the frenetic and profane Daly is an easy target; it could be because Newsom and Daly are often the de-facto poster children for their respective moderate and progressiv ... More >>

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Your Rundown on the Week in S.F. Government

A Tea Party slogan unknown in San Franciso government​Should be a fun week -- the Board of Supervisors is weighing in on the fiasco involving narcotics analysis at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab, the Police Commission is trying to reform its process for disciplining wayward officers ... More >>

No, Chris Daly Won't Endorse Theresa Sparks. She Can Live With That.

Theresa Sparks​You may recall that less than a week after the SF Weekly published a profile last fall on soon-to-be District 6 Supervisor candidate Theresa Sparks, current District 6 supervisor Chris Daly wrote his own 2,500 word diatribe railing against Sparks' "mainstream" politics and how the W ... More >>

Committee Assignments are Here! Which Supes Got Screwed?

But that's a loser committee!​The day the board president hands out committee assignments to the city supervisors always feels just a bit like junior high school. Who's the new boy? Who got all his electives? Who's stuck taking woodshop in seventh period? Who'll sit at the cool kids' table? Who'll ... More >>

Bay Links: F-bombs, Trailer Parties, & Young Romance

Bombs away!​Chris Daly drops the F-bomb at supes meeting. [City Insider]And speaking of supes, no more Yom Kippur break for the Board. [Sweet Melissa]Bloggers get their groove on at the SF Appeal Holiday Party. (Check out video of SF Weekly Web Editor Alexia Tsotsis busting a move) [SF Appeal]Love ... More >>

Daly's Oddyssey: Fairfield-to-S.F. Commute Would Be the Schlep of All Schleps

Over the river and through the woods, to City Hall we go... Whatever downside Supervisor Chris Daly is facing due to his family's move to Fairfield, he's always got this going for him: Like any proper suburbanite, he can now keep a refrigerator full of beer and meat in his garage and shake his ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Can you answer Question No. 1? It's Chris Daly's world and the rest of us are just paying rent (you think we can buy in San Francisco?) It was another fabulous week in the city -- or did you black out and miss it, Muni-style? Let's see if you were paying attention: 1. Supervisor Chris Daly, cha ... More >>

Mayor's Truthiness Is Lacking When It Comes to Proposed Daly Charter Amendment

But who's counting, Mr. Mayor?The other day, the San Francisco Chronicle noted that Mayor Gavin Newsom doesn't seem to be using Earth-years to calculate his government tenure. He's been helping to rule this city since 1996, but has been repeatedly prefacing his statements of late with the qualifier ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: The Budget Still Sucks, But Now I Want to Hug Chris Daly

Still Crazy After All These Years: Bay Guardian's Warblings Drown Rational Discussion of Solar Project

The price is wrongA grumpy minority on the Board of Supervisors tries in vain to put the brakes on a renewable power project that makes bad business sense. This may sound familiar to observers of politics in San Francisco, where left-wing Democrats on the board tend to outflank their more moderate ... More >>

Democratic Party contest pits bad boy Chris Daly against dark-past-lugging August Longo

SF Gov InAction: The First Rule of Rules Committee Is That There ARE NO RULES!

Is it any wonder that the mayor who could go on for 7.5 hours about the State of the City without ONCE mentioning a half-billion-dollar deficit has been in Switzerland when the city has to decide how to deal with it? How fitting that he married an actress. Let's review. After being elected in th ... More >>

Rookie of the Year: David Chiu Just the Latest Young, Inexperienced Smart Guy to Obtain Presidency

Chris Daly Twirls His Mustache, Cackles at Ross Mirkarimi as Chiu Ekes Out Win By Joe Eskenazi Watching a man with mutton-chops every bit as stylish as his white overalls engrave the word "President" on Supervisor David Chiu's office door, one couldn't help but recall good ol' Will Shakespea ... More >>

Class of 2000 Standouts

The Class of 2000

Eight years after being swept into office, a once-disorganized band of neighborhood leftists tries to create a citywide political machine.

The Failed Experiment

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

SF Gov InAction: Supes Divide the City Amongst Themselves, have Big Plans for 19th Avenue, Try to Ban Smoking in Small Steps

SF Gov InAction: Anti-smoking legislation, African Americans leaving SF, and whistleblower protection. Plus: It's cover-your-ass Thursday at City Hall!

Sf Government InAction: Is Ross Mirkarimi Captain Ahab? Is Burma a Root Vegetable? And Who is that Masked Supervisor, Anyway?

City misplaces prostitutes while Chris Daly sets your fonts for you! It's ...

SF Supes Propose Less Coke-Snorting, Higher Rents to Pay for Parks: It's SFGovernmentInAction!

Kid Code

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Unintended Evictions

An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market

Pedal Power

Two politicians put their interests before a world-class event and a world of possibilities

Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

And unfortunately it's not science fiction. It's San Francisco politics, and the winner used some interesting jujitsu.

The Daly Deal

How the sordid extraction of $50 million from Rincon Hill developers helps Chris Daly, city bureaucrats, and Gavin Newsom -- and hurts everyone else in San Francisco

The Daly Show

Why a supervisor needs to feel some love and back off a counterproductive assault on a nonprofit housing agency

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 10, 2003

Lee Way

The public career path of Andrew Lee explains a lot about what's wrong with Willie Brown's style of politics and governance

Best Scrappy Politician

Chris Daly

Reading the Fed

How long a recession, if the Federal Reserve adopts "Positively Outrageous Service" as an official slogan?

Letters to the Editor

God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Pop Philosophy

No parking on the dance floor -- unless you like soft rock

Warning: Deconstruction Ahead

The Village Voice thinks postmodern deconstructionism explains the S.F. Board of Supervisors; but why invoke Derrida, where ignorance will serve?

A Primer on Housing

See the supervisors posture. See them learn. See them approve housing.

Dog Bites

Server Farms and District Six Democrats' Parties