Subject: Dianne Feinstein

• Ammiano Calls Pelosi and Fenstein "Moms"

  March 31, 2008

• Newsom's Latest Curious Donor: Sugar Daddy For Anti-Rent Control Proposition

  Will it burn a hole in his pocket? Last month we reported on how gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom took a hefty donation from Rockstar Energy Drinks' CEO Russell Weiner. When the media began reporting extremist positions Weiner touted on immigration and same-sex marriage in the past (and that he's Michael Savage's son) Newsom's campaign soon saw fit to return the money, citing differences between the "values" of the donor and recipient. Well, it'll be interesting to see if that happens again

  June 1, 2009

• No On 8 Responds to the "Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?" Argument

  October 28, 2008

• "Speaking of Responsibility, We've Taken It;" "Everything the 49ers Have Asked Us to Do, We've Done," - the Wit and Wisdom of Gavin Newsom on the economy

  By Benjamin Wachs What's that, you say? Didn't Gavin already give a Newsom-isode on the economy? Well, yes, but that was the "Economic Climate." This is the Newsom-isode on "Economic Development." What's the difference? Well, one kind of tells you what Gavin plans to do, and the other kind of explains why he can't. Personally, I can't believe anyone is actually still reading my notes about these things - isn't there enough misery in the world? But if you are, at least make it a dri

  December 11, 2008

• The Feinstein-Panetta Back Story

  By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little direct knowledge of intelligence work. Still, there can be no doubt that the pot was set all the more furiously astir with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's public disavowal of Panetta once the news br

  January 6, 2009

• Bay Area Lawmakers Among Obama's Worst Frenemies

  Bay Area residents rejoicing over the historic inauguration of Barack Obama might want to take heed of an assessment of their elected representatives featured yesterday on Politico, the political news Web site. Writer Glenn Thrush posted a top-ten list of Democrats who pose a threat to Obama's agenda. As it turns out, this elite group is stacked with legislators from the Golden State. Three Californians are on Obama's potential "White House Frenemies List," including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (No. 2

  January 22, 2009

• Local Hatter Left Pondering Why Dianne Feinstein Didn't Wear the Handmade Chapeaux Commissioned for Inauguration

  Incidentally, cap insiders describe this creation as "a turban-style hat with a self-contained bow."Barack Obama campaigned -- and won -- largely on a message of hope. And, surveying the masses present for his inauguration last week, one group of Americans has every right to feel hopeful -- hatters. Whether it was Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop's "Watch me shake everyone's hand on TV!" blood-red fedora or Aretha Franklin's jaw-dropping chapeau (which bore an uncanny resemblance to the mother

  January 26, 2009

• Cops vs. Cops

  April 19, 1995

• SF Gov InAction: Supes Dream of Presidency, Take the Week Off -- Except For a Major Budget Showdown that Could Doom Us All

  For the last eight years in San Francisco, "President's Day" was a cruel joke on a city with no sense of humor about politics. Sure, America could boast Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and TWO Roosevelts -- but we were stuck with Bush. None of our traditional coping strategies worked. No matter how much we visualized change, no matter how many social networks we joined, no matter how "sex-positive" we were, and no matter how much fun we made of people who weren't visualizing sex-positive so

  February 17, 2009

• Peace Breaks Out! Fasting Pro-Union Workers Come In From the Cold at Dianne Feinstein's Office

  At Guantanamo, hunger strikes don't end earlyThis just in from the San Francisco Labor Council: Apparently a group of workers have broken off their fast at Sen. Dianne Feinstein's local office on Post Street. The workers' hunger strike was the latest in a series of local events and rallies organized by labor interests in an effort to push Feinstein to commit to supporting the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act.The details of what happened are still sketchy, but Rachele Huennekens of the Service

  June 4, 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

• Dianne Feinstein hatless at Obama's inauguration

  January 28, 2009

• Eat, Pray, Love, Donate

  November 19, 2008

• If Gavin Newsom were born to Sarah Palin ...

  October 1, 2008

• We tell What Not to Wear locals who need wardrobe overhauls

  March 26, 2008

• Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

  January 30, 2008

• Attention SF Giants, DiFi - Matt Smith's New Year's Resolutions Others Ought to Follow

  DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

  January 9, 2008

• Dark Payola Emerges

  “Direct licensing” is the new threat to Webcasting´s meritocracy of music

  June 27, 2007

• Invisible Man

  Unlike the other U.S. attorneys fired by the Bushies, Kevin Ryan.

  March 28, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of 1-17-2007

  January 17, 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

• 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

• Boycott Feinstein

  A new proposed law would put activists in jail for hurting a company's bottom line

  November 29, 2006

• The Man Who Would Be Feinstein

  So you've never heard of Christopher Dahl. He'd still like to be your U.S. Senator.

  September 20, 2006

• Code of Honor

  Complete Studio Recordings 1982-1984

  June 28, 2006

• Anus, Already

  Uniquely positioned to exert positive influence on public debate, San Francisco's business lobbies instead choose to act like, well, assholes

  March 2, 2005

• Lovin' and Losin'

  What do folks leave behind at S.F. sex clubs? We knew you'd want to know.

  September 10, 2003

• 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

• Tabled Salt

  Plans to buy Cargill's huge saltworks and restore them to wetlands are thwarted by a sour economy

  January 23, 2002

• Pointed Queries

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

  May 23, 2001

• Culture Clash: Mission Magic Mystery Tour

  Latino comedy troupe Culture Clash creates a loving, sometimes impudent portrait of the Mission

  January 17, 2001

• Yellow-Bellied Journalism

  Hearst executives' behavior in the Examiner sale was nothing less than cowardly

  August 2, 2000

• Letters

  October 21, 1998

• Riff Raff

  July 22, 1998

• Letters

  June 24, 1998

• Mecklin

  June 10, 1998

• Riff Raff

  May 13, 1998

• Boondoggle by the Bay

  Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

  January 28, 1998

• Letters

  November 5, 1997

• The Grid

  May 7, 1997

• Beating Swords Into Tourist Shares

  S.F. tries, tries again to bring the USS Missouri "home"

  August 21, 1996

• Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

  There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

  February 14, 1996

• Slap Shots

  May 31, 1995

• Dialing for AIDS Dollars

  National group soaks donors for telemarketing scheme as Republicans seize Capitol Hill

  May 10, 1995

• Hey, Sailor!

  The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

  May 3, 1995

• If Clergywomen Beat the Gong For an Antidemocratic, Pro-Union Bill and Dianne Feinstein Isn't There To Hear It...

  Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to support the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, a piece of federal legislation that proponents call the most significant pro-union measure to reach Washington in the last generation.Starting on Wednesd

  May 7, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  May 27, 2009

• Out-of-Towners -- From Fresno, No Less -- Protest In San Francisco. Did You Notice?

  Like a Vaudeville act of old getting ready to take it to New York City, today's protester has got to ask himself if he's ready for the big time when he comes to San Francisco. We've got no shortage of expert, home-grown demonstrators, and budget season has distilled the best of the best. So, were a few hundred Central Valley agricultural advocates steamed over a lack of available water up to the task? Our snap judgment is -- not exactly. Ostensibly here to buzz Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office y

  June 30, 2009

• Clinton Endorsement Indicates Gavin Newsom Not Dropping Out of Race for Governor

  Gavin Newsom, F.O.B.*​ After recent polls showed Gavin Newsom getting clobbered by Jerry Brown even among San Francisco voters, political insiders began wagering when Newsom would gracefully pull the plug on his gubernatorial bid. One reasonable guess making the rounds: Newsom would call it quits after his new baby was born later this month saying he needed to focus on fatherhood. But the announcement that Bill Clinton is endorsing Newsom for governor changes all that. The Clinton endorsement

  September 15, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  October 28, 2009