Gerardo Sandoval

Progressively Worse: The Tumultuous Rise and Acrimonious Fall of the City's Left

The Billion-Dollar Bet: Which Pension Reform Measure Will Pass and Survive Legal Challenge

Pot Busts Are a High Priority for Cops -- But They Shouldn't Be

Waiting for Godot to fire up a joint​It's long been the desire of voters and San Francisco lawmakers that the city's peace officers enforce all other crimes before busting adults smoking pot. In light of this, it's hard for pot advocates to figure out why undercover police spent 30 minutes on Marc ... More >>

'Bait Car' Conversations With Cops Likely To Be Revealed, Could Help Alleged Car Thieves

As they say, the devil is in the details.​The nitty-gritty details of the behind-the-scenes discussions between San Francisco police and truTV's "Bait Car" reality TV show will likely be revealed in court -- soon. On Thursday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Cheng said he was granting a ... More >>

Charges Dropped For Transgender Woman Arrested Outside Diva's On 'Bait Car'

Just kidding, this woman isn't a car thief after all. ​The transgender woman who was the first person arrested for stealing a car as part of the San Francisco Bait Car reality TV show isn't a thief after all. Prosecutors dropped the car theft charges against Joseph Bullard on Friday after intervie ... More >>

Bait Car Pays SFPD to Entice Drivers to Steal Cars

Pension Reform Prop. B Helmed By Rookie Strategist Darcy Brown

Darcy Brown's first job as a San Francisco campaign consultant won't be an easy one​On Monday, the Chronicle revealed that consultant Jim Stearns is being tapped to lead labor's charge against Jeff Adachi's Prop. B pension reform measure -- a move that was all but inevitable. Stearns is labor and ... More >>

Chris Daly Questions Chris Daly's (Fucking) Gumption

​Earlier this month, Supervisor Chris Daly got a shitload of free publicity when he pledged to utter "fuck" at every board meeting for the rest of the year. There are those who say that there is no such thing as bad publicity. They're wrong. Daly, like Gerardo Sandoval before him, was lampooned on ... More >>

Screwed

A lawsuit against the city highlights an affordable-housing program's decades of mismanagement — and the middle-class homeowners who lost out as a result.

Next Stop: Oz. There's No Place Like Muni, There's No Place Like Muni...

Joe EskenaziNo Toto, though...​ While riding tornadoes over the rainbow is the preferred route to Oz, it turns out the Muni train is ever so slightly more reliable. And, as we've documented numerous times in the past, they'll even take your little dog, too. Our eye-catching Dorothy Gale stepped on ... More >>

Ethics Commission Whistleblower Lawyers Up, Charges Retaliation

​Some of you may remember a June 29 article we ran here about how the city's Ethics Commission sure seemed to be going out of its way to not cite and fine Supervisor Carmen Chu -- a moderate represented by lawyer and mayoral svengali Jim Sutton. Meanwhile, progressive Supes Gerardo Sandoval and Ch ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: The Budget's All finished, Except for the Backstabbing

Our story so far: The Supervisors were drinking champagne in City Hall last week after reaching a budget deal that restored an unprecedented amount money to programs that Mayor Gavin "Call me Governor" Newsom cut from San Francisco because he thought it would play well in Fresno. Par-TAY! B ... More >>

San Francisco's Campaign Finance Laws Are Complex. Eluding Them? That's More Simple.

'It's good to be the king' -- and it's always good to have powerful folks in your corner pulling some stringsSan Francisco's campaign finance rules are so beastly complex that professional treasurers with decades of experience have been known to drive sharpened pencils through their palms in fits of ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: The Supes are Dead! Long Live the Supes! Plus: Why It Doesn't Matter Who the New Board President Is

By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

Senior Memories

Some of the Class of 2000's stranger moments. (A lot of them involve Chris Daly.)

The Failed Experiment

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

SF Gov InAction: An (Imaginary) Sex Scandal, "Conflict Resolution Day," and Soon You too will Become a Special Use District!

Friday: Students Protest Mission Violence at City Hall

Sandoval Ducks, Mirkarimi Covers, and the Community Justice Center goes Down Down Down...

SF Gov't InAction: This Week It's All About Troops ... and the Budget

Bar Association gives its qualified support for judge

For Whom the Bridge Tolls

Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

Poll suggests runoff likely in judicial race

Even more TV no one watches! Every San Francisco government meeting is on deck

SF turns to junkies for security, state plans to "spray first, ask questions later."

One more time: Spraying “bad,” Nazis “worse” - We watch the “Light Brown Apple Moth” hearing so you don’t have to.

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

Sandoval to SF: Lose the Booze

Bong shop regulation on deck - too much toking up in the Excelsior

Termed-out Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval running for judge?

Golden Gate Skateparks and Venezuelan Wage-Fixing — It's SFGovernmentInAction!!!

Inner Richmond vs. Starbucks

Kid Code

Year of the Blockhead

We're dumbing down and it's the new media's fault

Still Snoopin'

Useless Resolve

The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

Extra Credit

Is outgoing school Superintendent Arlene Ackerman worth a huge severance package and $45,000 in credit card charges? Find out where you stand!

Tilting at Political Windmills

Some people, like attorney Paul Melbostad, just don't know when to quit. Bully for him.

Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Same as the Old Boss?

Why the new mayor should resist political pressure from the new shadow ayatollah of San Francisco politics, real estate mogul Clint Reilly

Image Is Everything

The economy's in a slump, and so are a lot of S.F. politicians. At least for the pols, Brow Set seems to be part of the answer.

Political Relativity

Stuck in a strange warp of the space-time fabric, our supervisors can't stop tilting against a dot-com development monster that's dead and buried

Intended Consequences

Our supervisors tilt at a lot of silly windmills. But the city's recognition of Mexican consular IDs may help change national immigration policy for the better.

Dog Bites

Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

Dog Bites

Fangxaminer Watch continues; dot-com failures and the economy

Dog Bites

Runoff election; Fangxaminer Watch monitors amusing errors

Dog Bites

You know, there's an election -- hey! -- we said there's a local election coming up

Letters to the Editor

Letters from November 8, 2000

Dog Bites

Fangxaminer; Mourning the Passing of the Arts; Looking for the New Bohemia