Dianne Feinstein

Willie Brown Is Happy to Take Marijuana Money

Status. Clout. Juice. Whatever it is -- the intangibles that humans need in order to govern other humans -- Willie Lewis Brown's got it.Da Mayor and current Kingmaker is also, technically, at risk of having Justice Department officials swoop down upon his residence at the St. Regis Hotel and seize s ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Sen. Feinstein Really Loves Toothpick Replica of the Golden Gate Bridge

So many unconventional and borderline freakish things are born right here in San Francisco. Take the tinfoil chapeaux, for instance. And if that's not weird enough for you, there's always the How Weird Street Faire, which incidentally is scheduled this weekend.Among our many much-appreciated eccentr ... More >>

"Season of the Witch": The Turbulent Growth of S.F. Values

How Bay Area Corporations Resemble Their (Human) Neighbors

Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein Are Stinking Rich

​Here is something that might inspire the dwindling Occupiers to return to their tents: While our very own Nancy Pelosi was pushing to extend unemployment  benefits that will, ideally, keep Spam on the tables of the 99 percent -- and provide a boatload of jobs! -- the San Francisco Democrat h ... More >>

Is Medical Marijuana a Low Priority for Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gov. Jerry Brown?

Blindsided as he was during a "bloodbath" of a House Judicial Committee hearing, in which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hung out to dry over the teeny-tiny issue of injecting American-made weaponry into the Mexican cartel wars, you could forgive the Justice Department head for mincing his wo ... More >>

California Young Democrats' Bank Accounts Frozen in Kinde Durkee Fraud Case

​The California Young Democrats are appealing to supporters for financial assistance after discovering that they cannot access their operating funds, which were handled by a Democratic campaign treasurer now facing fraud charges.Federal and state authorities are investigating the treasurer, Kinde ... More >>

Obama's Stance On DOMA Could Benefit Binational Gay Couples

​Political calculations are aflutter in response to the Obama administration's claim that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the law that limits marriage between a man and a woman. Here's one more: What does this mean for gay immigrants who are married?As we explored in a 2010 ... More >>

DREAM Act Debacle: Lowell High School Grad Set For Deportation

Melissa Lee works the cameras​Congress failed again last month to corral the needed votes to put the DREAM Act back on the table -- and the fallout looks something like this: Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Lee was on a successful trajectory; she had graduated from Lowell High School - the city's mos ... More >>

Recession's Latest Victim: Plans to Restore Old Mint

Were local tycoons too cheap to bankroll this? ​Nine years after Mayor Willie Brown put in motion a plan to turn the 136-year-old San Francisco's Old Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets into a "21st-century mixed-use cultural center dedicated to the residents and visitors of the Bay Area," the San F ... More >>

Senate To Vote On DREAM Act Tuesday. Local Activists To Picket Feinstein's Office.

​You may recall our July cover feature on young undocumented immigrants waiting for the DREAM Act, a bill that would give illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military a path to citizenship. At the time the story came out, many advocates predicted that Democrats would lack the ball ... More >>

The Education Trap

In California, many undocumented immigrants are offered cheap college tuition, only to find they can’t get jobs after they graduate.

SF Weekly Letters

Tourists Must Now Pay To Enter S.F. Botanical Garden. Are Locals to Follow?

Mila Zinkova...But you can still look at the pictures for free​The city of San Francisco, it seems, has stumbled upon a remarkable new way to generate cash. It will make people pay money for something they didn't really want in the first place. By a lopsided 8-3 vote, the Board of Supervisors on T ... More >>

Willie's World: The wisdom of S.F.'s ex-mayor

Newsom Doesn't Get Dem Endorsement -- But He's Still Looking Pretty

A nice weekend for San Francisco's erstwhile mayor​Mayor Gavin Newsom put on a charm offensive at this weekend's state Democratic Party Convention, hoping to win the official endorsement for lieutenant governor. He didn't get it -- but he still left in a commanding position in his quest to leave S ... More >>

S.F. Business Group Spurns Pelosi's Health Care Plea

Not winning the vote of San Francisco's business community...​Despite 30 minutes of face time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to convince a delegation of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce business leaders to endorse the most important piece of legislation a San Francisco politician has shepherd ... More >>

S.F. Babylon: A Decade of Hypocrisy, Scandal, and Weirdness Pt. 2

Over the past decade, we have often felt as though we might be living in an adult playground run by a feisty bunch of hypocrites, philanderers, and drunk-dialers. This, we have to admit, makes San Francisco a pretty exciting city in which to gather the news. Narrowing down the top 10 (okay, it's rea ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

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' ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

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 ... More >>

"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 o ... More >>

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

If Gavin Newsom were born to Sarah Palin ...

November ballot measures promise eco-confusion

The High Price of Getting a Head: City Hall Busts Cost an Arm and a Leg

Newsom Looks to the Future and Beyond

Dark Payola Emerges

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

Invisible Man

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of 1-17-2007

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?

Election Leftovers

Lovin' and Losin'

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

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.

Slow Sailing

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

It's the Housing, Stupid

Don't re-elect supervisors who've done nothing -- zero, zip, nada -- to address our housing shortage

Yellow-Bellied Journalism

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

Letters

Riff Raff

Tale of a Gun

Following one semiautomatic from manufacture to mayhem

Unspun

Beating Swords Into Tourist Shares

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

Slap Shots

Dialing for AIDS Dollars

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

Hey, Sailor!

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

Dollars Without Sense

For 25 years, Harvey Ross has rooted out the waste and lies of politicians and bureaucrats. But some say he's too lost in the line items to see the big picture

Cops vs. Cops

They look like cops. They carry guns like cops. They can even arrest you like cops. But San Francisco's patrol special officers are a different breed of police - one marked for extinction by the SFPD and powers that be.