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  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    "Emperor Norton Bridge" Turns 75

    The man, the bridge, the resolution...​Other than partially collapsing, falling apart, and swelling into a costly boondoggle, San Franciscans don't think much about the Bay Bridge. For 75 years now it's been an ugly duckling and an afterthought. So most of us probably don't remember that our Board ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Senator Lou Correa, Author of Vetoed Medical Marijuana Restrictions Bill, Just Wanted to Help

    The LiberalOCHere to help​Medical marijuana advocates celebrated Wednesday with Governor Jerry Brown's veto of SB 847. The brainchild of State Senator Lou Correa (D-Orange County), the bill would have made a 600-foot barrier between medical cannabis dispensaries and homes state law (except in citi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Is Banning Shark's Fin Racist?

    ​Today, the San Francisco Chronicle surveyed the battle emerging over a recently introduced state assembly bill proposing to ban the sale and import of shark's fin throughout California. The pro and con camps are defining it as a fight over cultural heritage versus environmental conservation.Accor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Cattle Stampede Planned for San Francisco Streets Tonight

    Stop! You're violating the city charter! ​Here's the difference between Daly City and San Francisco: In the former, they'll have cows on the streets. Here we have people who think they're cows. Actually, tonight San Francisco will have cows trotting through its city streets as well. In order to co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    S.F. Legislators Approve $400K Gift to Insurers. Will Governor?

    It's unanimous: let's screw San Francisco​In a year when San Francisco faces a $787 million budget shortfall, how do our representatives in Sacramento propose to help out? By unanimously supporting a measure transferring $400,000 annually in health care expenses from insurers to local San Francis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Willie Brown Oh-So-Fashionably Late To Transbay Transit Center Groundbreaking

    High speed rail: more aerodynamic than my hair​Groundbreaking ceremonies might just be the most mind- numbingly predictable of all political events. Yet this morning's christening of the imminent demolition of the Transbay Terminal and seven-year construction of the new Transbay Transit Center was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Cow Palace Farmers' Market Starts Quietly

    Urban Village The Cow Palace Farmers' Market takes place Saturdays through mid-October.​What would happen if there was a farmers' market and nobody showed up? That's sort of what happened last Saturday, when a first-ever market debuted at the Cow Palace, with just about zero fanfare. Organize ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Shit-Shoveling Left Off Politician's Official Bio, Oddly Enough

    Chris Parker definitely can tell you-know-what from Shinola...​Our introduction to Chris Parker began with shit. The Franchise Tax Board attorney and candidate for the state's board of equalization happened to mention his long years' experience shoveling the stuff to Assembly whip Fiona Ma during ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Leno: Even if Maldonado Becomes Lt. Gov, Republican Voters Won't Back a Latino

    La respuesta del Senador Maldonado en español from CA Senate GOP on Vimeo. Sen. Mark Leno, the sole San Francisco legislator to vote in favor of installing Republican Abel Maldonado as the state's next Lieutenant Governor, said he has good reasons for casting his vote the way he did. But he said M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Et Tu Elsbernd? Supe Apparently Latest To Enter Jackie Speier Sweepstakes.

    When Sean Elsbernd had this photo taken, he ostensibly wasn't interested in running for higher office. Now he is. Also, watch out for that truck. ​The Chronicle's Marisa Lagos has done a bang-up job handicapping the myriad political possibilities that could result if Rep. Jackie Speier leaves Cong ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2009

    The Wrong Stuff

    Candidate Newsom is “narcissistic,” “thin-skinned,” “disloyal,” and “friendless.” And that’s from his former supporters.

  • News

    August 5, 2009

    S.F. pays lobbyist to advocate for government secrecy, critics say

    Candidate Newsom is “narcissistic,” “thin-skinned,” “disloyal,” and “friendless.” And that’s from his former supporters.

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Critics Accuse City of Paying Lobbyists to Weaken Public Access Laws

    ​Yesterday we reported on how, despite detailed complaints from the public, San Francisco's lobbyists were skipping out on requirements to file with the Ethics Commission and report how they're using public money. Now, open government activists, spurred into sifting through some of the city's Sacr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Aaron Peskin Happily Becomes City's 'Arnoldbuck' Sugar Daddy

    Next time you see former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, be sure to hit him up for money. He told us he never leaves the house these days without stuffing his pockets with bills to hand off to local bartenders, restaurateurs, or even random elected officials. If you're expecting to get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Willie's Water World Withheld: State Senate Committee Tables Brown-Sponsored Bill That Would Overturn S.F. Ruling, Enrich Massive Engineering Firm

    What can Brown do for you? If you're Parsons Engineering, he can get your bill passed in the Assembly -- but not, thus far, in the Senate.Last week, we reported how former Mayor Willie Brown sponsored a legislative bill that would have changed the state's conflict of interest laws to retroactively o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Pride Rides: How Will Our Elected Officials Be Cruising This Weekend?

    Bevan Dufty's sweet ride...In case you missed the proliferation of rainbow flags and the huge influx of prideful people heading into our fair city, things are ramping up for the big Pride Parade on Sunday, June 28.As the knives begin to come out behind the scenes in the city's simmering budget battl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Has Willie Brown Outfoxed the Board of Supervisors -- Again?

    Why was Willie Brown -- that's him on the left -- involved in sponsoring an Assembly bill the city's Board of Supervisors is madly hoping to derail?It probably wasn't really Mark Twain who said "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." But until the day 80-proof distilled spirits ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Follow the Bouncing Bill: Alioto-Pier's New Aide Says Job Was Spur-of-the-Moment Offer

    FacebookNewly minted Alioto-Pier legislative aide Bill Barnes displays decor he no longer needsWhen former Chris Daly legislative aide Bill Barnes quit his post as Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's chief of staff last year, we asked him if the rumors were true -- was he going to work for Supervisor Michela A ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2009

    JROTC under fire in S.F. schools

    FacebookNewly minted Alioto-Pier legislative aide Bill Barnes displays decor he no longer needsWhen former Chris Daly legislative aide Bill Barnes quit his post as Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's chief of staff last year, we asked him if the rumors were true -- was he going to work for Supervisor Michela A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Riddle: Can LAFCo Be Saved If It Can't Be Killed?

    San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) is the appendix of the city's muniEntriescipal body -- an unnecessary entity serving no obvious or useful purpose. Considering the city is looking at a half-billion-dollar deficit, cutting this useless civic appendage and its $1 million budge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Fiona Ma's Right-Hand Man Bill Barnes Quits, Heads Back to S.F.

    Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's chief of staff, Bill Barnes, surprised his fellow San Francisco politicos earlier this month by abruptly handing in his resignation. Barnes didn't give the standard line of wanting to spend more time with his wife and children -- he doesn't have any. Instead, he told SF Week ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2008

    How renters work the system to live for free in one of America's most expensive cities

    Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's chief of staff, Bill Barnes, surprised his fellow San Francisco politicos earlier this month by abruptly handing in his resignation. Barnes didn't give the standard line of wanting to spend more time with his wife and children -- he doesn't have any. Instead, he told SF Week ... More >>

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    The Daly Show

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

  • News

    August 1, 2007

    Enter the Dragon Head

    Raymond Chow says he's left his gangster days behind to help bring peace to Chinatown's streets. Is he for real?

  • News

    February 28, 2007

    Power Failure

    A three-month electrical outage exposed a tenderloin apartment building as a firetrap. How did the nonprofit property manager let things get so bad?

  • News

    December 6, 2006

    Slush Daddy

    A three-month electrical outage exposed a tenderloin apartment building as a firetrap. How did the nonprofit property manager let things get so bad?

  • News

    November 22, 2006

    Fall Gal

    A money-laundering scandal may have helped bring down former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. But indicted political maven Julie Lee stands to pay the ultimate price.

  • News

    August 16, 2006

    The Darthies

    The SF Weekly Noble Villain Awards. And the winner is ... you!

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

    In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

  • News

    June 14, 2006

    Sistah Kamala

    In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

  • News

    November 5, 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

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Fissilingual Predictions

    Chewing on the past and future is a New Year's cliché that no word-loving breedbate can resist

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